Cold Cases in Ida County, IA


*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Ida 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.

 


Connie Ruddy Homicide:
Connie Ruddy
21 YOA
Ida Grove, Iowa
Ida County
February 10, 1997

Connie Ruddy, a 21-year-old mother of two, vanished from her Ida Grove, Iowa home without a trace on February 10, 1997. Ruddy’s two-year-old and two-month-old children were found alone in the residence, unharmed. On August 31, 1999, more than two years after her disappearance, a man looking for fossils near Ida Grove found a human jawbone in the Boyer River in Crawford County near Dow City. Nothing else was found. Dental records confirmed it was Ruddy's jawbone, and the former missing persons case was reclassified as a homicide.


Homicide:
Dung Kim Truong
Case # 9712883
Washta, Iowa (Ida County)
November 27, 1997

On November 27, 1997, a decomposed body was found at the Washta Access south of Washta, Iowa. The vicitim was identified as Dung Kim Truong, who had been reported missing on September 22, 1997. Truong was last seen leaving the Ameristar Casino at approximately 6:30 p.m. on September 22, 1997 with an unknown Asian male.

If you have any information about these crimes, please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or e-mail dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.


Page last updated: November 26, 2009