Helping Catch Bad Guys

On June 10, 2016, in Media, News, The Families, by Jody Ewing

 Ron Novak’s unsolved 1983 murder was one  of more than 50 cases featured by the Iowa  Newspaper Association and participating  newspapers across the state. The past, present, and future are inexorably linked, and nowhere has that been more clear than in the last year during our partnership with the Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) and its […]

Ron Novak

On March 10, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Ronald Lee Novak Linn County in Iowa   Center Point in Linn County Homicide Ronald Lee Novak 24 YOA Rolling Acres Road Rural Center Point, IA Linn County December 23, 1983   UPDATE: Investigators have DNA match for likely suspect In a special KCRG-TV report on Dec. 26, 2013, Col. John Stuelke of the Linn […]

Linn County

On October 21, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Linn County, Iowa *Please Note: The cases listed below are within Linn 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 Marlene Padfield 17 YOA Cedar Rapids, IA Linn County February […]