Colfax in Jasper County

Jasper County in Iowa

Cold Cases in Colfax, Iowa

James Bailey

Homicide:
James M. Bailey, Jr.
32 YOA
Case # 7500503
Colfax, Iowa
Jasper County
August 14, 1975

On Thursday, August 14, 1975, 32-year-old James M. “Beetle” Bailey, Jr., of Mentor, Ohio, was shot at the I-80 Colfax ramp in Jasper County, Iowa, while motorcycling west with two friends, 27-year-old Paul Philemon and 31-year-old Richard Vesey. They were members of the Cleveland Chapter Hell’s Angels and were on the way to Sturgis, South Dakota.

If you have any information about this case please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Cold Case Unit at (515) 725-6010, or send e-mail to: coldcaseunit@dps.state.ia.us.