Westgate in Fayette County

Fayette County in Iowa

Cold Cases in Westgate, Iowa

Ashley Downing

Homicide
Ashley Downing
77 YOA
Westgate, IA
Fayette County (jurisdiction)
January 4, 1933

Ashley Downing, a 77-year-old Iowa farmer, was killed by a shotgun blast to the head in his rural Westgate home in Fayette County, Iowa, on January 4, 1933, in what officials called a robbery/homicide.