Cold Cases in Muscatine County, IA
*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Muscatine 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 On the morning of April 14, 1986, the body of Felicitas Terrill was found in her home with four gunshot wounds to the head in what appeared to be a burglary. |
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Homicide: Amber Marie Hayes, 7-1/2 months old, was reported missing by her mother, Mary Hayes, at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, 1988. Four days later, the infant's body, a pink diaper bag and blanket were discovered in a remote area near Lake Odessa by two boys riding all-terrain vehicles. |
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Missing Person: Robert Kellar was last seen in February 1990 in Muscatine, IA, when he left on a cross-country trip. His family assumed he would be back, but they never saw him again. |
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Homicide: Corey Wieneke, 22, was found bludgeoned to death in his rural West Liberty home on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1992. Wieneke's fiancée, Jody Hotz, also of West Liberty, last saw him alive around 8:15 a.m. that morning and discovered his beaten body in his bedroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening. |
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Homicide Scott M. Tompkins was shot by an assailant(s) while stopped to fix his windshield wipers. The victim was able to make it for medical treatment and later died. Prior to his death he was able to make a statement to police about the incident. |
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Homicide: Isidro Gomez, Jr., of Muscatine, Iowa, was reported missing to the Muscatine Police Department on December 17, 2007, by Jessica Ridinger of Muscatine, Gomez's girlfriend of eight years. His partially decomposed body was discovered May 6, 2008, in the woods off Funk's Hill Road about five miles west of Muscatine by people hunting for mushrooms on the heavily wooded hill. |
Page last updated: February 16, 2010
