Mount Pleasant in Henry County

Henry County in Iowa

Cold Cases in Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Missing Person/Declared Dead
Harold Orville Doerring
Age at Report: 66
DOB: March 14, 1930
Weight: 200 lbs.
Height: 5’11″
Race: White
Hair: Brown/gray balding
Eyes: Blue
Incident Type: Disability – physical / mental
RootsWeb ID: I037422
Reported Missing in Decorah, IA, Winneshiek County
Death Listed in Henry County, south of Mount Pleasant
Missing Since: February 16, 1997

Sixty-six-year-old Harold Doerring was reported missing to the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office in Decorah, Iowa, on February 16, 1997. Authorities found Harold Doerring’s truck abandoned on Highway 218 south of Mount Pleasant in Henry County on February 23, 1997. When they tried to contact him about the vehicle but could not find him, they discovered no one had seen Doerring since February 16 in Cedar Falls.

Jackie Douthart

Homicide
Jackie Douthart
24 YOA
Old Highway 34
Mount Pleasant, IA
Henry County
May 22, 2011

Jackie Douthart, 24, went missing on May 22, 2011 from Mount Pleasant. She was last seen by Benjamin Biggs, who was termed “a person of interest” in her disappearance. Biggs killed himself about a month later following a high-speed chase and standoff with police in Quincy, Illinois. Her skeletal remains were found in March 2012 near the border between Henry and Jefferson counties.