30 Years Cold, New Details
Kim Loose
More than 25 years after 16-year-old Kim Loose's death in Walcott, Iowa, Sept. 26, 1986, her sister Julie began receiving tips, followed by files. Everything the Blue Grass family thought they knew about Kim's "accidental" death – as well as a connected "suicide" the following night – would turn both cases upside down.
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Sioux City to Cedar Rapids
Maureen Farley
Born and raised in Sioux City, 17-year-old Maureen Brubaker Farley left Siouxland for Cedar Rapids to be closer to her new husband. On Sept. 24, 1971, two young boys out hunting discovered her body atop an abandoned car in a wooded ravine near Cedar Rapids' southwest edge.
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Forever Cold
Frank Goff
Frank Goff’s children believe justice will never be served in their father’s September 1977 death; Goff's brother Jerry – believed to be the trigger man – died in 2002, and another brother, George, a career criminal, died in 2009.
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An Inspiration
Terri McCauley
Terri McCauley, 18, died of a gunshot wound in Sioux City on Sept. 27, 1983. Her unsolved murder became one of a handful of cases writer Jody Ewing featured in the 2004-2005 Weekender Sioux City Cold Cases series — a project inspiring this website's creation in December 2005.
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GONE COLD
Interactive Map
Explore this interactive map of Iowa's unsolved murders, dating back to 1847, and read profiles on some of these murder victims. Map compiled by Des Moines Register as part of 'Gone Cold' series partnership.
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World War II Vet Targeted
George Keller
George "Chicken George" Keller, a 61-year-old WW II veteran who raised chickens in rural Woodburn, Iowa, had been rebuilding his home after an arson fire when someone came out to his property Sept. 28, 1981, and shot him multiple times in the head.
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Wife Never Ruled Out
Tom Mather
Rural Springdale, IA — On Monday night, Sept. 30, 1991, a naked Dawn Mather, 24, ran to a nearby farmhouse and told the occupants she'd escaped but that her 32-year-old husband of one year, Tom Mather, had been shot in the head and slashed several times by a naked intruder.
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