James M. Bailey
Homicide:
Case # 7500503
Colfax, Iowa (Jasper County)
August 14, 1975
On August 14, 1975, James M. Bailey, Paul Phlemon, and Richard Vessy were riding their motorcycles westbound on Interstate 80. As they approached an overpass two and one half miles west of Colfax, Vessy and other witnesses reported hearing and seeing flashes from a number of shots that rang out from an area along the northeast side of the overpass.
James Bailey
was hit, fell from his motorcycle, and both he and the motorcycle
rolled into a ditch along the northside of Interstate 80.
Sources
and References:
IDPS Division of Criminal Investigation
Page last updated: November 24, 2009
