
Cedar Falls in Black Hawk County

Black Hawk County in Iowa
Cold Cases in Cedar Falls, IA

Dennis Clougherty
Homicide:
Dennis Michael Clougherty
23 years of age
U.S. Highway 20
Cedar Falls, IA
August 12, 1974
At 6:18 a.m. on Tuesday, August 13, 1974, a motorist discovered the body of a man lying in the ditch of Union Road just south of U.S. Highway 20 (which is now Highway 57 or W. 1st Street) located in the extreme northwest corner of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The victim was Dennis Michael Clougherty, date of birth 1-31-51. A coroner’s report indicated Mr. Clougherty had died of five gunshot wounds to his body.

Mattie Zabel
Missing Person:
Mattie Lou Zabel
Age at Report: 45
Missing From: Cedar Falls, IA (Black Hawk County)
Missing Since: March 21, 1978
Mattie Zabel was last seen by her family on March 21, 1978, in her hometown of Cedar Falls, Iowa. She left behind not only her husband, Jack, and three children, but also a frozen chicken thawing in the kitchen sink that was to be the family’s dinner.
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