Sioux City in Woodbury County
Woodbury County in Iowa
Rev. George Haddock
Rev. George Haddock
56 YOA
Corner of 3rd and Water streets
Sioux City, IA
Woodbury County
August 3, 1886
Just after 10 p.m. on August 3, 1886, the Reverend George Haddock of Sioux City, Iowa, was shot as he left his buggy at the stables. He lay dead in the gutter on the southwest corner of 3rd and Water streets.
Homicide
John H. Brownrigg
Sioux City, Iowa
Woodbury County
April 24, 1896
On Thursday afternoon, April 24, 1896, a Woodbury County Deputy Sheriff found a body next to a boxcar of the Chicago Burlington and Northern Railroad in Sioux City. Letters in the coat pockets identified the victim as John H. Brownrigg, originally of Dublin, Ireland. John Brownrigg was murdered inside the boxcar and pushed onto the ground.
Homicide
John McGill
29 YOA
Sioux City, Iowa
Woodbury County
September 1920
John McGill, 29, was found stabbed to death in September 1920 behind a private residence in Sioux City.
Homicide
John “Jack” Fong
40 YOA
Kee Quong Laundry
214 Fourth Street
Sioux City, Iowa
Woodbury County
December 2, 1924
John “Jack” Fong, 40, was ritualistically stabbed to death at the Kee Quong Chinese Laundry at 214 Fourth Street in Sioux City on December 2, 1924. His murder was believed to be tong-related.
Harry H. Jones
William Laugeson
Double Homicide
Harry H. Jones, 32, and
William Laugeson, 34
C.A. Larson Hardware
1102 Fourth Street
Sioux City
Woodbury County
August 27, 1925
C.A. Larson Hardware Store employee William Laugeson, 34, and customer Harry H. Jones, 32, were shot during a robbery at 7:00 a.m., August 27, 1925.
Louis Friedman
Homicide
Louis Friedman
37 YOA
300 Pearl Street
Sioux City, Iowa
Woodbury County
December 12, 1930
Louis Friedman, 37, was shot to death during a struggle with two bandits trying to rob his grocery store at 300 North Pearl on December 12, 1930.
Homicide
Sherman Casper
35 YOA
Sioux City, Iowa
Woodbury County
April 20, 1935
Sioux City resident Sherman Casper, 35, was severely beaten and his body thrown into the Missouri River. He was found on April 20, 1935 by fisherman in Thurston County, Nebraska.
Jimmy Bremmers
Homicide:
Jimmy Bremmers
8 YOA
2701 Cottage Ave.
Sioux City, IA (Woodbury County)
Body Found in Plymouth County
Estimated Date of Death: August 31, 1954
Eight-year-old Jimmy Bremmers disappeared on August 31, 1954, after visiting friends on the block where he lived on Sioux City’s west side. His body was found by county workers almost one month later on Sept. 29. Ernest Triplett — an itinerant music salesman for Flood Music in Sioux City — was arrested, charged and convicted in Jimmy’s death, but the conviction was overturned in 1972.
Donna Sue Davis
Homicide:
Donna Sue Davis
22 months of age
715 Isabella Street
Sioux City, IA
July 10, 1955
Donna Sue Davis, 22 months old, was abducted from her crib in her Sioux City, Iowa, home the evening of July 10, 1955. Her battered body was found the following day at the edge of a South Sioux City, Nebraska, cornfield.
Homicide
Catherine Decora
48 YOA
Sioux City, IA
February 14, 1965
On Friday night, February 13, Catherine Decora attended a party at the home of 63-year-old Kenneth Taylor in Sioux City. She left and then returned to his home after someone beat her severely in the alley outside his home. She died at a hospital early the following morning.
Jesse Hanni
Billy Isom
Triple Homicide
Ernest William (Billy) Isom II, 27;
Jesse James Hanni, 26;
Freta Fawn (Bostic) Isom, 24
117 Morningside Avenue
Sioux City, IA
Woodbury County
December 3, 1974
At 11:22 a.m., the bodies of three persons were found brutally murdered in a rented two-story home in Sioux City, Iowa. The mother of victim Ernest William “Billy” Isom discovered the bodies.
Freta Bostic
Freta (Bostic) Isom — pregnant at the time — was found on the dining room floor, wearing only a housecoat, shot once through the back.
Billy Isom — shot five times in the head and body — lay naked on a mattress on the living room floor.
Jesse Hanni was found fully clothed, wearing a winter jacket, and had been shot once through the back and once behind the left ear in execution style.
Maurice Kneifl
Missing Person:
Maurice Kneifl
58 YOA
Sioux City, IA
February 14, 1983
On Feb. 16, 1983, the Sioux City Police Department received a report of a missing person — 58-year-old Maurice Kneifl — by Kneifl’s girlfriend, Joyce Fish, and her daughter Lori. Maurice was reportedly last seen on Feb. 14, 1983, driving his 1981 dark brown Fleetwood Cadillac, bearing Iowa license plate HIZ379. He had left Joyce’s residence around 9:30 p.m. Kneifl owned and operated Fethke Cleaners located at 1209 W. 26th Street. An exhaustive search has turned up no leads as to his whereabouts.
Terri McCauley
Homicide:
Terri McCauley
18 YOA
33rd & Pavonia St.
Sioux City, IA
October 6, 1983
On Oct. 1, 1983, 18-year-old McCauley was reported missing by her mother. She was reported last seen alive on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1983, at approximately 2:15 a.m. in the area of W. 7th & Omaha in Sioux City. At approximately 8:15 a.m. on Oct. 6, 1983, her partially decomposed body was located in a wooded area in the vicinity of 33rd & Pavonia Street by a local resident walking his dog. The victim had died from a shotgun wound to the face.
Ronald Zellmer
Missing Person:
Ronald Leroy Zellmer
31 YOA
Sioux City, IA
April 6, 1985
At approx. 5:50 a.m., South Sioux City Police located a 1984 Chevy Cavalier – registered to Zellmer — parked on the south end of the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Sioux City Police were called to check Zellmer’s residence at 1003 Pierce Street, Apt. B-3, and found it empty with nothing unusual within the apartment. Family members reported he had suffered from depression for years. A search of the Missouri River proved unsuccessful.
Unidentified White Male:
John Doe
200 Block of S. Lewis Blvd. (Hwy 75)
Sioux City, IA
March 25, 1986
At approx. 9:42 a.m., Sioux City Police responded to a report of a man down under a bridge near Marx Trucking. Marx employees had observed smoke and a noxious odor coming from the area the day before. Investigators located the body of man — believed to be between 40-50 years of age — burned beyond recognition, with a gas can located between the victim’s legs. A nationwide search has not determined the man’s identity.
Homicide:
Kevin Clark
26 YOA
1514 Villa Avenue
Sioux City, IA
December 8, 1991
Just after climbing into the back passenger seat of friend’s vehicle after a party, Kevin Clark was shot at approximately 5:19 a.m. on Dec. 8, 1991, by a black male subject who approached the 1981 Chevy Citation with 9 millimeter rifle, shouted an obscenity and then began firing into the vehicle. Clark – who had in his possession a 38 Titan Special revolver – returned the gunfire, but was struck three times in the torso.
Homicide:
Betty Swetnam
73 YOA
1610 West 19th St.
Sioux City, IA
Woodbury County
January 1, 1994
Betty Swetnam was found dead at the bottom of her basement steps on January 1, 1994. The 73-year-old grandmother had been stabbed multiple times.
Kenneth Harker
Missing Person:
Kenneth Harker
34 YOA
Sioux City, IA
October 9, 1996
On October 9, 1996, Marie Harker contacted the Sioux City Police Department to report her adult son, Kenneth Harker, as missing. According to Marie, Kenneth suffered from a head injury he’d received several years earlier that had left him disabled. Four days earlier on October 5, Harker’s 1977 white Chevy Suburban, while parked on a gravel road, had been tagged by the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office as an abandoned vehicle.
David Redowl
Homicide:
David Redowl
27 YOA
610 West 3rd St.
Sioux City, IA
April 26, 1997
At approx. 2:00 a.m., David Redowl and his 24-year-old sister, Sonja, had a physical altercation in the back yard of their mother’s residence on West 3rd St., which both Redowl and his sister listed as their home. Sioux Police were contacted about 2:07 a.m, and found Redowl with a stab wound to the chest.
Wilbur Brown
Homicide:
Wilbur Brown
47 YOA
603 West 5th St.
Sioux City, IA
Sept. 14, 1997
Wilbur Brown was found lying on the ground between a curb and the sidewalk at 603 West 5th St. in Sioux City, Iowa, about 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, 1997. An autopsy revealed he’d been beaten about the head and body and died as a result of those injuries.
Patricia Jauron
Homicide:
Patricia Jauron
45 YOA
1516 Old Highway 141
Sioux City, IA (Woodbury County jurisdiction)
Case # 9806160
May 26, 1998
Patricia Jauron’s body was discovered by her husband Gene at their former home across the road from where they’d just moved after she left to show someone a waterbed and didn’t return home. Patricia had been stabbed multiple times with such force the blade broke off in her chest.
Missing Person:
Greg Stover
44 YOA
DOB: 7/20/54
White male
Missing From: Sioux City, IA
Missing since: March 8, 1999
Greg Stover was reported missing to the Sioux City Police Department, in Sioux City on March 8, 1999.
Adrian Reuwsaat
Missing Person:
Adrian Reuwsaat
69 YOA
Missing From: Sioux City, IA
Woodbury County
Missing since: November 3, 2002
Adrian Reuwsaat was reported missing to the Sioux City Police Department in Sioux City on November 3, 2002.
Helen Kelly
Missing Person:
Helen J. Kelly
83 YOA
Missing From: Sioux City, IA (Woodbury County)
Missing Since: May 18, 2005
Helen Kelly of Sioux City, Iowa, was reported missing by her husband on May 18, 2005. Kelly left behind her purse and had not mentioned plans to travel anywhere. She has never been heard from again. Her gold 2000 Honda Accord with Iowa license plates numbered 953EDK also remains missing.
Joshua Lyons
Missing Person:
Joshua Lyons
16 YOA at disappearance
Missing From: Sioux City, IA (Woodbury County)
Missing Since: December 5, 2009
Joshua Lyons was reported missing to the Sioux City Police Department on December 5, 2009.
He was last seen wearing a black t-shirt and jeans.
If you have any information about these cases, please contact the Sioux City Police Department at 712-279-6960.
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