Bremer County in Iowa
*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Bremer County but may fall under a city police department’s jurisdiction. They are included here for cross-reference purposes. More specific information may be found on each victim’s individual page.
William Meadows
Homicide:
William Lawrence Meadows
36 YOA
Case # 6100280
Plainfield, Iowa (Bremer County)
January 24, 1961
Marshall William Lawrence Meadows, 36, was shot and killed on Tuesday, January 24, 1961, while investigating a burglary in progress at the Hartmann Packing Plant in Plainfield, Iowa.
Valerie Klossowsky
Homicide:
Valerie Lynn Klossowsky
14 YOA
Waverly/Denver, IA (Bremer County)
Case # 7100549
June 13, 1971
On Tuesday morning, June 15, 1971, the partially clad body of 14-year-old Valerie Lynn Klossowsky of Waverly was found on a creek bank under a bridge on a lonely country road three miles west of Denver, IA. The Waverly-Shell Rock Junior High School student had been strangled.
Julie Benning
Homicide:
Julie Ann Benning
18 YOA
Disappeared from Waverly, IA (Bremer County)
Body found in Shell Rock, IA (Butler County)
Case # 7600382
November 28, 1975
Julie Ann Benning, 18, disappeared from Waverly, IA, the day after Thanksgiving on November 28, 1975. A Butler County road maintenance worker found her nude and decomposed body in a roadside ditch along a quiet country road about a mile northeast of Shell Rock on March 18, 1976.
Lisa Peak
Homicide
Marie”Lisa” Peak
20 YOA
Waverly, IA (Bremer County)
September 7, 1976
On Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1976, the nude, beaten body of 20-year-old Marie “Lisa” Peak was found lying face down under a lone cottonwood tree in a ditch a quarter mile north of Waverly’s city limits. Peak had been sexually assaulted and died of suffocation and a broken neck.
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