Courtesy The Gazette, Oct. 12, 1973
In the early morning hours on Friday, October 12, 1973, Bettendorf police responded to an anonymous call from a man who said he’d just shot someone. Upon their arrival at the Duck Creek Plaza parking lot located at 852 Middle Road, officers found 23-year-old Alexander Torres Sauceda slumped in his vehicle’s front seat.
Scott County in Iowa
Sauceda — a Vietnam veteran who’d served with the US Army — had been shot multiple times in the head. Four spent .22 caliber cartridges lay next to his body.
According to an article published April 3, 2010 by the Quad-Cities Dispatch-Argus, Mr. Sauceda’s sister, Yolanda Sauceda, said her brother received several phone calls that night before leaving their house about 11:45 p.m. Sauceda did not tell his sister where he was going or whom he planned to meet.
Alexander Sauceda was buried in the Rock Island National Cemetery in Moline, Ill. (Courtesy photo Trimble Funeral Homes, findagrave.com)
Alexander Sauceda was born in Texas July 17, 1950, to Eulojia Torres and Santos Sauceda.
He served as a US Army Specialist 4 based in Iowa, and also served during the Vietnam War.
He was buried with military rites at the Rock Island National Cemetery in Moline, Ill.
If you have any information about Alexander Sauceda’s unsolved murder please contact the Bettendorf Police Department at 563-344-4015.
In searching newspaper articles I notice a pattern of killings from 1970- 1974 this could very well be a serial killer in that area, I will need to look further before I am 100% sure.
His Social Security states he was living in Iowa when he retained his Social Security Number, I am still search for addresses and places her was after he returned from service.
Name: Alexander Sauceda
Social Security Number: 483-66-7724
Birth Date: 17 Jul 1950
Issue Year: 1966
Issue State: Iowa
Death Date: Oct 1973
I found him in a article for a traffic fine he got for $10 in Colorado Springs Newspaper in 1971.
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Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph
Colorado Springs, Colorado
04 May 1971, Tue • Page 25
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93819544/alexander-torres-sauceda/
Not a lot of details on his murder. There is no mention of what he was doing for a living after returning from Vietnam. Also, were there any shell casings found at the crime scene. If yes and hopefully they still have them they should be entered into the computerized ballistics system. Maybe the gun was used in another crime, or recovered by law enforcement.
These cold cases should be revewed and details that were with held be released to seek information or investigative leads.
I agree!
They need to check the shell casings.
I also find it very odd that the person who murdered him called it in!
Praying they find the person who did this!
Thank you, Brenda! We try!
Don’t know anything about this case but this is an awesome site…goes way back!!!