Cold Cases in Cedar County, Iowa
*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Cedar 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.
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Homicide: At 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 17, 1980, 17-year-old Sandra Jo Pittman's body was found at a Highway 30 rest area one mile east of Clarence, Iowa, in Cedar County. The teen died from a blow to the head with a pipe or tire iron sometime between midnight and 7:00 that morning. Investigators believed she was killed elsewhere and dumped at the rest area. |
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Homicide: On September 30, 1991, Tom Mather, 32, was shot in the head and stabbed several times in his home, located on County Road X-40 about a mile north of the West Liberty exit off Interstate 80. His wife, Dawn, said he was shot by an intruder. She escaped to a nearby farmhouse. |
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Homicide: On November 10, 1996, the body of a newborn infant was found in a garbage bag in a barn on a residence in Lisbon, Iowa. |
If you have any information about any of these cases, please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or e-mail dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.
Sources and References:
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
Page last updated: May 30, 2010
