Webster County in Iowa

Fort Dodge in Webster County

William Henry Freimuth

Homicide

William Henry Freimuth
71 YOA
Case # 6100355
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Webster County
February 16, 1962

William Freimuth, a 71-year-old Fort Dodge service station attendant, was shot in the back of the head shortly after 8 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 1962, by a gunman who took $140 from the cash register.

William Henry Freimuth was born February 1, 1890 in Manson, Iowa, to German immigrants Anna N. Behrnsmeier and Fred C. Freimuth. His siblings were Anna Wilhelmine “Minnie” Freimuth Doster, Charley John Freimuth, August Martin Freimuth, Emma Freimuth, and John W. Freimuth.

If you have any information you think might help solve this crime, please contact the Fort Dodge Police Department at 515-573-1426 or Iowa Cold Cases through the Contact form.

Sources

• “Charge Two Gunmen With Omaha Killing; Accused of Another,” Estherville Daily News,” February 23, 1961.
• Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Cold Case Unit
• “It happened today,” Ames Daily Tribune, February 17, 1961.
• “A Murder Case is Never Closed,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Aug. 1, 1963