Story County in Iowa

Colo in Story County

Cold Cases in Colo, IA

Sheila Collins

Homicide
Sheila Jean Collins
18 YOA
Case # 68-00287
ISU Student
Last seen in Ames, IA
Body found near Colo, IA
Story County
January 26, 1968

On Friday, January 26, 1968, 18-year-old ISU coed Sheila Jean Collins accepted a ride to her hometown from a stranger who obtained her name from an ISU Memorial Union ride-board. Her body was found January 28 in a ditch along a gravel road between Nevada and Colo. She had been struck on the head and strangled.