Ames in Story County
Story County in Iowa
Fred Hollingsworth
Homicide
Fred Milton Hollingsworth
38 YOA
Lincoln Highway
4 miles east of Ames, IA
Story County
June 13, 1933
At dawn on June 13, 1933, the body of 38-year-old Fred Milton Hollingsworth was discovered in his car on the shoulder of the Lincoln Highway near the intersection of a gravel road four miles east of Ames. He’d been killed by a blast to the face from a double-barreled shotgun.
Henry Chavis
Homicide
Henry William Chavis
55 YOA
1 miles south of Ames, IA
Story County
November 8, 1948
On November 8, 1948, after returning home and parking his car outside his house, 55-year-old Henry Chavis was shot in the arm and mid-back after getting out of his car; and while lying on the ground, he was executed with a bullet to the back of the head that exited his throat.
Sheila Collins
Homicide:
Sheila Jean Collins
18 YOA
Case # 6800287
ISU Student
Last seen in Ames, IA
Body found near Colo, IA
Story County
January 26, 1968
On Friday, January 26, 1968, 18-year-old ISU coed Sheila Jean Collins accepted a ride to her hometown from a stranger who obtained her name from an ISU Memorial Union ride-board. Her body was found January 28 in a ditch along a gravel road between Nevada and Colo. She had been struck on the head and strangled.
Ronald E. Westwick
Missing Person
Ronald E. Westwick
34 YOA
Missing from Ames, IA
Story County
March 9, 1979
Ronald E. Westwick, 34, was reported missing from Ames, Iowa, on March 8, 1979.
James “Jimmy” Morris
a.k.a. “Jimmy Morise”
58 YOA
203 E. Lincoln Way
Ames, IA
Story County
October 27, 1991
Four days before Halloween in 1991, James “Jimmy” Morris was found beaten to death in his bedroom at 203 E. Lincoln Way in Ames.
Chad James Schwab
30 YOA
Ames, IA (Story County)
August 10, 2004
On August 10, 2004, a white male’s badly decomposed body was discovered several hundred yards behind the Southbound Interstate 35 rest area north of Ames in a wooded location. DNA tests later identified the body as that of Chad James Schwab, 30, of Snowmass, Colo., though the state Medical Examiner’s Office and the Story County Sheriff’s Office ruled the cause of death undetermined.
Aaron Marr
Homicide
Aaron Marr
37 YOA
210 S. Second St.
Ames, IA
Story County
September 22, 2007
At 9:53 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007, the Ames Police Department took a call for an ambulance assist at 210 S. Second St., about a man who had a neck laceration. When officers got there, they found Aaron Marr suffering from several stab wounds to his neck and back. He had enough time to tell the first responders that he knew who had attacked him, but he wasn’t going to tell. He was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center but died on the way, his chance to name his murderer gone forever.
If you have any information about these crimes, please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or e-mail dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.
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