Johnson County in Iowa

Coralville in Johnson County

Lance Lee DeWoody

Homicide

Lance Lee DeWoody
22 YOA
Home residence: North Liberty, IA
Shot on Oakdale Campus
Coralville, IA
Johnson County
Case # 8504249
August 13, 1985

Summary by Jody Ewing

Lance DeWoody, 22, of North Liberty, Iowa, was shot in the head at a picnic shelter on the north side of the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus in Coralville on August 13, 1985.

An Olin native, DeWoody had been living north of North Liberty and working as a laborer in an Iowa City area plant.

According to Coralville police, there was one prime suspect in the case who knew DeWoody and lived in the Iowa City area, though information wasn’t released as to why they thought DeWoody died or the number of gunshots that hit DeWoody.

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Sources:

• Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
• “Cracking Cold Cases,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Dec. 12, 2006
• “Murdered, Missing, Unsolved,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette, March 22, 1992