About Gone Cold Gone Cold: Exploring Iowa’s Unsolved Murders is a collaborative partnership with the Iowa Newspaper Association and Iowa news organizations to revisit some of the most brutal and mystifying homicides in state history. The weekly series will feature a number of the state’s 438 unsolved murders, with articles published simultaneously across the state in […]
COLD CASES: Death of stepfather drives woman to profile Iowa’s unsolved crimes Story by Aaron Brilbeck WHOtv Staff Writer 8:50 AM CDT, July 30, 2010 Original Air Date: July 29, 2010 Onawa, IA – For Jody Ewing of Onawa, near Sioux City, this is her calling. Remembering the forgotten. Profiling cold, unsolved cases throughout […]
Keeping cold cases from being forgotten 7:50 PM, May 11, 2012 Written by Josh O’Leary Iowa City Press-Citizen When Jody Ewing first began writing about Iowa’s unsolved murders, people would ask if she had a personal connection to a cold case that sparked her interest. Until 2007, the answer was always no. On Aug. 28 of […]
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Tracking Cold Cases SIOUX CITY COLD CASES Murder, she wrote: Tracking Sioux City’s unsolved murders By Jody Ewing May 20, 2004 On July 10, 1955, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Mary Davis put her 22-month-old daughter, Donna Sue, to bed in her crib after giving her a bath. Humid temps had reached the mid 90s that day, […]
DNA Advances SIOUX CITY COLD CASES New advances in DNA technology play key role in solving crimes By Jody Ewing May 20, 2004 “Most people, probably 85 percent of the population, are what we call ‘secreters,’” says Sioux City Police Chief Joe Frisbie – who joined the department in 1967 and took […]
Cold Case Website Hits Home for Founder Transcript from KTIV News Channel 4 in Sioux City, Iowa June 9, 2008 Donna Sue Davis, Terri McCauley, Kenneth Harker. Sadly, these are just a few unsolved murder victims in Sioux City. Now, one Siouxland woman is giving these victims a voice with her website. It’s been […]
Adding Dad Earl When I launched the Iowa Cold Cases website in December 2005, I never imagined a day would come I’d have to add a member of my own family. That day has arrived. His name: Earl Thelander … Dad Earl as my four siblings and I lovingly called him; Dad to his […]
Three Victims: Their Lives, Their Deaths By Jody Ewing May 20, 2004 Courtesy photo Mike Tuttle Billy Isom (left) was hell bent on playing bass guitar for the Saints and Sinners band, said friend Mike Tuttle (right), despite the fact he didn’t know how to play. Ernest William Isom Jr., called “Ernie” by some and […]
TRIPLE HOMICIDE SIOUX CITY COLD CASES Horror of triple murder lingers 30 years later May 20, 2004 | The Weekender By Jody Ewing A snowy haze covered the city the morning of Dec. 3, 1974, as Harriet Isom and her […]
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