Center Point in Linn County

Linn County in Iowa

Cold Cases in Center Point, Iowa

Ronald Novak

Homicide
Ronald Lee Novak
24 YOA
Center Point, IA (Linn County)
December 24, 1983

On Christmas Eve day, 1983, Ronald Lee Novak, 24, was found bound with his hands tied behind his back, beaten with golf clubs and firewood, shot in the chest, and then left in an unheated room of his rural Center Point residence. His three devoted golden retrievers lay closely huddled around him, trying to keep their dead master warm.