The Cases – Homicides (Up through 1899)

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The cases below include unsolved Iowa homicides up through 1899, and are listed in chronological order. If you know of a case not listed here or have information you’d like included with an existing page, please contact us with relevant details and we’ll respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.

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Nathaniel Carnagey
36 YOA
Marion, IA
Linn County
Crime: March 20, 1847
DOD: April 4, 1847

James C. Nicoll
52 YOA
10th Avenue ditch
Council Bluffs, IA
Pottawattamie County
March 17, 1885

Rev. George Haddock
56 YOA
3rd and Water streets
Sioux City, IA
Woodbury County
August 3, 1886

Henry Nurre
76 YOA
Sugar Creek
Brown’s Station
Clinton County
March 11, 1890

James Chamberlain
41 YOA
Beneath railroad trestle
Ottumwa, IA
Wapello County
May 25, 1893

Anna Wiese
20 YOA
Green Mountain, IA
Vienna Township
Marshall County
August 26, 1893

Jacob Neibert
AKA Jacob Neupert
53 YOA
Muscatine, IA
Muscatine County
June 13, 1896

Pitt McClellan Doxsie
34 YOA
Line of Duty Death
Independence, IA
Buchanan County
October 26, 1897

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