Cold Cases in Jasper County, IA

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

Homicide:
James M. Bailey, Jr.
32 YOA
Case # 7500503
Colfax, Iowa (Jasper County)
August 14, 1975

On Thursday, August 14, 1975, 32-year-old James M. “Beetle” Bailey, Jr., of Mentor, Ohio, was shot at the I-80 Colfax ramp in Jasper County, Iowa, while motorcycling west with two friends, 27-year-old Paul Philemon and 31-year-old Richard Vesey.

 

Double Homicide
Steven Fisher and girlfriend Melisa Gregory
Newton, IA (Jasper County)
Case # 8301119
March 3, 1983

Steven Fisher and his girlfriend, Melisa Gregory, were found beaten to death at the Copper Dollar Ranch northwest of Newton, Iowa, in Jasper County on March 3, 1983.

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 August 2, 2010