O'Brien County in Iowa

Sheldon in O'Brien County

Cold Cases in Sheldon, Iowa

Maud Straw

Homicide
Maud Straw
19 YOA
Sheldon, IA
O’Brien County
February 5, 1896

High school student Maud Straw, 19, was poisoned and raped while living by herself in a small Sheldon home.

 
Homicide
John Doe 1917
50 YOA
Tool House
Union Depot
Sheldon, IA
O’Brien County
April 17, 1917

An unknown man approximately 50 years-old was found dead sitting in a chair inside the tool house of the Union Depot in Sheldon on August 21, 1917. He died of two gunshot wounds on April 17.