Taylor County in Iowa

New Market in Taylor County

Cold Cases in New Market, Iowa

Denise Eberly, center, and her baby sister Dixie, far right, died in the house fire at their rural New Market home on Oct. 15, 1964.

Double Homicide
Denise Diane Eberly, 3 years
Dixie Lynne Eberly, 13 mos.
New Market, IA
Taylor County
October 15, 1964

On Thursday morning, October 15, 1964, Dixie Lynne Eberly, 13 months old, and her 3-year-old sister, Denise Diane Eberly, died after an arson fire in the family’s rural New Market, Iowa home. The baby, Dixie, was burned alive in her crib. Denise died the same day at the Municipal Hospital of smoke inhalation.