Today marks 22 years since 7-1/2-month-old Amber Marie Hayes of Muscatine, Iowa, was decapitated, dismembered, and her remains strewn in a remote area near Lake Odessa. Two boys riding all-terrain vehicles discovered the infant’s body, her pink diaper bag and blanket four days later. The lake area, just south of Muscatine, is located about one-half […]
Nine years ago today, Erin Kay Pospisil vanished without a trace from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The 15-year-old Metro High School freshman was last seen getting into a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows in the 100 block of 12th Street SE on Sunday, June 3, 2001. Although Erin’s friends didn’t recognize the car, Erin seemed to […]
On Tuesday, May 26, 1998, sometime between 9:00 and 9:45 a.m., Patricia Anne “Pat” Jauron, 45, was viciously stabbed to death in the rural Sioux City home she and her husband, Eugene “Gene” Jauron, had just vacated. The couple had recently moved out of one home at 1516 Old Highway 141 and into another across the […]
One year ago today, 18-year-old Jared Andrews Parks was found dead on Interstate 35/80 near the Beaver Avenue Bridge in Polk County, Iowa. He’d been run over by at least two semi tractor-trailers, and troopers believe a third truck may also have run over the teen. Investigators never found Jared’s cell phone, and his wallet, […]
My only sister, Valerie Peterson, was killed 39 years ago today on a Thursday afternoon. She was just 8 years old. We had been late that morning — in a rush out of the car for school with no foreshadowing of the terrible events that would happen that afternoon. No goodbyes or looks backward. The […]
On May 2, 1965, Lillian Randolph shared Mother’s Day with her oldest child’s birthday. It would also be the last day Lillian would ever be seen alive. The mother of four — Hank, Ann, Wendy and Vicki — was kidnapped from her rural Guthrie Center, Iowa home that day after attending church with her daughters. […]
Ruth Ann Kingery-Pohlmeier had an abundant smile and zest for life, always looking to find the good in all who crossed paths with her. Her trusting heart may have been what led to her death. On Sunday evening, April 25, 2004, her body was found wrapped in a blanket next to the AMF Des Moines Lanes […]
April 15 marked 56 years since the body of 67-year-old Charles “Charlie” Edward Sanders was found in the river under the Court Avenue Bridge in downtown Des Moines. Sanders’ wallet was missing and he had been bludgeoned in the head. Sanders’ son-in-law, William Edward Graves, identified his father-in-law’s decomposed body. Sanders’ family members believe Charlie […]
Twenty-six years ago today, 20-year-old Justin Hook, Jr.‘s body was found outside near his burned-out mobile home in rural Drakesville in southeast Iowa. Hook had been killed by blows to the head. When police went to tell Hook’s mother — Sarah Link, 41, of Farmington — about her son’s death, they were unable to locate […]
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