UPDATE: $7K reward offered in fatal shooting of Cedar Falls woman
April 29, 2019 | by Jeff Reinitz, wcfcourier.com WATERLOO – Police are seeking the public’s help as they investigate the death of a former University of Northern Iowa softball player who was killed when she was struck by a bullet while driving on U.S. Highway 218 early Sunday morning. Micalla Rettinger Micalla Alexis Rettinger, 25, of Cedar Falls, and her passengers were returning from work when the shooting happened. “There is nothing to indicate the victims in this case were in any way involved in any activity that would have caused them to be targeted in this manner,” said Maj. Joe Leibold with the Waterloo Police Department. Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers has offered a $7,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. Full Story at wcfcourier.com April 25, 2019 | by Heather Murphy, The New York Times The Golden State Killer case was just the start. Hundreds of cold cases are hot again thanks to a new genealogy technique. The price may be everyone’s genetic privacy. In the year since the arrest of the man believed to be the notorious Golden State Killer, the world of criminal investigation has been radically transformed. Using an unconventional technique that relies on DNA submitted to online genealogy sites, investigators have solved dozens of violent crimes, in many cases decades after they hit dead ends. Experts believe the technique could be used to revive investigations into a vast number of cases that have gone cold across the country, including at least 100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies. Many have called it a revolutionary new technology. But credit for this method largely belongs to a number of mostly female, mostly retired family history lovers who tried for years to persuade law enforcement officials that their techniques could be used for more than locating the biological parents of adoptees. Full Story at The New York Times April 17, 2019 | KIMT.com MASON CITY, Iowa – John Vansice, a longtime person of interest in the Jodi Huisentruit case, has an aggressive health issue that could prevent him from contributing any further in the case. KIMT learned Wednesday that Vansice has an aggressive form of Alzheimer’s. Steve Ridge, a consultant and past investigative reporter, spoke to KIMT on Wednesday and said that he went through 11 pages of Vansice’s medical records and found out about the diagnosis. Ridge is one of the few people who Vansice has opened up to. Full Story at KIMT.com April 15, 2019 | by Luke Nozicka, The Des Moines Register Before an arrest was made in one of Iowa’s most haunting cold-case killings, investigators collected DNA from more than 125 people as they eliminated suspects. Search warrants unsealed last week show the efforts of Cedar Rapids investigators to make an arrest in the 1979 fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, which included taking buccal swabs from dozens of individuals. The warrants also better explain how a Virginia-based genetics lab and the DNA of a woman in Vancouver, Washington, helped detectives identify the Manchester man they say killed the high school student decades ago when he was 25: Jerry Lynn Burns. Full Story at The Des Moines Register April 8, 2019 | by Laura Terrell, KCCI.com West Des Moines police are using a new tool to investigate Ashley Okland’s murder eight years after it occurred. Ashley Okland The 27-year-old real estate agent was gunned down while holding an open house at a West Des Moines townhome. “This is one of those cases where I remember where I was when I got the call,” West Des Moines police Sgt. Dan Wade said. Officers in the West Des Moines Police Department created a new website called Answers for Ashley that they hope leads to her killer. To date, officers have followed up on more than 900 leads. Now, they hope the website will bring in fresh tips. March 26, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, Muscatine Journal MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — A Tipton woman accused of killing her former boyfriend in 1992 is scheduled for another trial. The first trial of 56-year-old Annette Cahill ended in a mistrial March 12 because of a hung jury. Her second trial in Muscatine is scheduled to begin Sept. 9. Cahill was arrested last year in connection with the killing of 22-year-old Corey Lee Wieneke, whose body was found in his West Liberty home. Full Story March 22, 2019 | by Trish Mehaffey, The Cedar Rapids Gazette Brandy Jennings of Vancouver, Wash., is shown with her father, Jim Jennings, in this family photo. After he died in 2009, Jennings in 2018 decided to upload her DNA to a public database to find out more about her father’s side of the family. That DNA eventually led to the arrest of a suspect in the 1979 slaying of Michelle Martinko in Cedar Rapids. (Courtesy Brandy Jennings | The Gazette) CEDAR RAPIDS — A Vancouver, Wash., woman, trying to find out more about her father’s side of the family, never expected that her DNA would help catch an Iowa man accused of killing Michelle Martinko 40 years ago. “I uploaded my DNA to GEDMatch,” a public database used to research family trees, “and forgot about it,” Brandy Jennings, 40, told The Gazette in a phone interview Friday. Jennings is a second cousin twice removed, through her paternal great-grandparents, to Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, of Manchester, who was charged in December with fatally stabbing the 18-year-old in 1979. Jennings was mentioned in a search warrant obtained last week by The Gazette, but Jennings only learned about the connection a few days ago after people on a Facebook group devoted to the Martinko case called or messaged her about it. She remembered talking to her brother, who lives in California, when she decided to upload her DNA to a public database. He had concerns because that’s how the suspected Golden State killer, Joseph DeAngelo, was arrested last year. Her brother told her he wasn’t sure he would want to be responsible getting a family member arrested. “I don’t know … I feel OK about it,” Jennings said. “I want someone to have to do time if (he/she) did something like that. I don’t regret it now.” March 21, 2019 | by Kyle Ocker, The Daily Iowegian/Ottumwa Courier COUNCIL BLUFFS — Jurors decided prosecutors failed to prove that Jason Carter killed his mother Shirley Carter on June 19, 2015. The jury from Pottawattamie County, where the trial was moved due to publicity, deliberated just two hours Thursday before finding Jason Carter not guilty of first-degree murder. The verdict brought an end to the nearly three-week trial. Immediately, Shelly Carter, the wife of Jason Carter, leaned over a railing from the gallery to embrace her husband. The emotions continued as together Jason and Shelly Carter addressed the media in the courtroom. “I just wanna go home and see my kids,” an emotional Jason Carter. “It’s been a long time coming. I’ve had to endure so much. Nobody can even come close to knowing.” Full Story at the Ottumwa Courier March 18, 2019 | by Luke Nozicka, The Des Moines Register Attorneys for Jason Carter, the Marion County man found civilly responsible for his mother’s death days before he was charged with murder, claim prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence and violated his right to due process. In asking a judge to dismiss the case, Carter’s defense team argued new information provided to them showed investigators failed to chase down leads and proved agents were prejudicial against their client. “This is such an egregious …” Carter’s lead attorney, Christine Branstad, started to say Friday in court after jurors were dismissed for the day. “It is just unbelievable the amount of information that is not provided, not followed up on, not disclosed.” March 14, 2019 | by Kyle Ocker, The Daily Iowegian COUNCIL BLUFFS — Prosecutors lobbied questions to Bill Carter for several hours Thursday building up his marriage to Shirley Carter, and his alibi. Meanwhile, the defense used their cross-examination in an attempt to impeach Bill Carter. They also spent time Thursday attempting, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Judge to allow them to introduce evidence and testimony about alleged domestic abuse between Bill and Shirley Carter. Jason Carter is accused of killing his mother Shirley Carter on June 19, 2015, at her rural home in Lacona. While he and his father were scrutinized by law enforcement, a civil suit was brought first against Jason Carter by his father Bill Carter. The trial was moved to Council Bluffs due to publicity after that civil suit and verdict. Bill Carter prevailed in the lawsuit and two days after the jury’s verdict law enforcement filed charges for murder against Jason Carter. In the days after the death of his wife of 52 years, Bill Carter began to believe his son is who killed her. That wasn’t always the case, however. Thursday, he recalled feeling angry after the media reported the public was not in any danger. Bill Carter believed that seemed to imply they felt family perpetrated the killing, specifically either himself or Jason Carter. “That made me mad, angry. I was telling [county attorney Ed Bull], and the sheriff and Mike Motsinger, the head of DCI at that time, I said, ‘I have a good family.’ I said, ‘This didn’t happen within my family.’” In the midst of his anger, he said, he repeated what Jason Carter had told him: That Shirley Carter was cold and stiff. But Bill Carter said she wasn’t. At the scene, he touched her body three times. She was cold, but he was able to lift her head up to kiss her on the forehead. He was just angry and taking it out on the three leading the investigation, he said. About three years prior to Shirley Carter’s death, a nearby methamphetamine lab was busted and the nearby public was told to lock their doors and keep a lookout, Bill Carter remembered. “The boys that were running it took off into the timber. And we all got phone calls to look our doors and be on the lookout. And then my wife is laying there dead, and they say, ‘Don’t worry about it.’” In his story about Bill Carter’s testimony, Daily Iowegian editor Kyle Ocker presents a dynamic read-between-the-lines story that goes behind the Carter couple’s facade and addresses allegations of “significant abuse.” Read Bill’s telling words at the Daily Iowegian March 13, 2019 | By Meredith Roemerman, Muscatine Journal/The Gazette MUSCATINE — A deadlocked jury led to a mistrial Tuesday in the murder trial for Annette Cahill. After nearly a full day of deliberations, a Muscatine County jury of five women and seven men could not reach a unanimous conclusion on the possible verdict — guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of a lesser charge of second-degree murder or not guilty. Cahill, 56, of Tipton was charged with first-degree murder last year in the 1992 bludgeoning death of Corey Lee Wieneke of West Liberty. Wieneke, 22 years old at the time, was found dead by his live-in fiancee at their small, rural farmhouse. The case became active again in 2017 — 25 years after Wieneke’s death — after a woman approached investigators with new information. The woman, Jessie Becker told investigators that, when she was 9 years old, she overheard Cahill in 1992 allegedly confess to killing Wieneke. March 12, 2019 | by Trish Mehaffey, The Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — A straw used to sip soda led authorities to the Manchester man two months later they would charge with fatally stabbing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in 1979. Jerry L. Burns as a senior is pictured in a 1972 West Delaware High School yearbook. Burns was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 death of Michelle Martinko. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) DNA from two distant cousins led to three brothers, and DNA from one of the brothers — Jerry Lynn Burns, 64 — matched the blood stain from Martinko’s dress, according to a search warrant affidavit. The probability of finding Burns’ DNA profile among unrelated individuals would be less than one out of 100 billion, according to the document. The case that went cold for 39 years wasn’t jump-started until investigators learned in May 2018 they could use genetic genealogy. Parabon-NanoLabs in Reston, Va., told investigators about GEDMatch, a public DNA database used to help research family trees. The DNA of the suspect was uploaded to the site and showed shared DNA with a known cousin on the site. Parabon officials told Cedar Rapids police investigator Matthew Denlinger the match was a cousin once removed from the suspect, and the lab had been able to create a family tree with four sets of the cousin’s great-great grandparents at the top, according to the warrant. March 12, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, Muscatine Journal MUSCATINE (AP) — A hung jury has led to a mistrial in the murder trial of an Iowa woman accused in the 1992 beating death of her former boyfriend. A judge declared the mistrial Tuesday afternoon when the jury of five women and seven men declared they could not reach a verdict. The jury began deliberating Monday in the trial of 56-year-old Annette Cahill, of Tipton. Cahill was arrested last year in connection with the 1992 killing of 22-year-old Corey Lee Wieneke, whose body was found in his West Liberty home. March 8, 2019 | by Mike Bell, The Daily Nonpareil The parents of a Council Bluffs man who was murdered 12 years ago have not given up hope answers may yet surface and bring a small measure of peace. Robert Hatcher was found shot to death underneath the Interstate 480 bridge on March 8, 2007. He was 38 years old. “We miss him so much,” his mother, Marjorie Hatcher, said Wednesday. His death left behind a widow, Christine. On that day 12 years ago, Robert Hatcher was walking on the pedestrian trail under the bridge, headed home from a job fair. Court records state he may have been there to meet two men about an issue with money — not much else is known. “We hope someone somewhere may know any detail that could lead to answers,” Marjorie Hatcher said. “Even after all these years.” Full story at The Daily Nonpareil March 6, 2019 | by Meredith Roemerman, The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier MUSCATINE — More than 25 years ago, a man was found beaten to death in his rural home near West Liberty. The case went cold until 2017. Now a woman in her 50s stands trial for his murder. “Actions and consequences, that’s what this case is about,” Iowa Assistant Attorney General Coleman McAllister said Tuesday to a Muscatine County jury. A first-degree murder charge in the Oct. 13, 1992, death of Corey Lee Wieneke was brought last May against Annette D. Cahill, 56, of Tipton. McAllister laid out the state’s case in a roughly 16-minute opening statement. Wieneke and Cahill had a sexual relationship, according to the criminal complaint, and the two allegedly argued about his involvement with another woman the morning he was killed. Full Story at the WCFCourier.com March 5, 2019 | by Luke Nozicka, The Des Moines Register Jason Carter, the central Iowa man found civilly responsible for his mother’s death, will stand trial later this week for murder in her killing. Carter, 46, of Knoxville, was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Shirley Carter, days after a civil jury found him responsible for her June 2015 death. Jury selection began Tuesday in the highly anticipated criminal case, which was moved from Marion County to Pottawattamie County because of pre-trial publicity. Prosecutors expect opening arguments to begin Thursday. Shirley Carter, 68, died from two gunshot wounds from a medium-caliber rifle in the kitchen of her rural Marion County home. Jason Carter was charged two days after the civil jury in December 2017 ordered him to pay $10 million to his mother’s estate. Full Story at The Des Moines Register March 3, 2019 | by Hannah Hilyard, KCCI.com DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Two sports radio hosts and a Des Moines police sergeant are teaming up for a new podcast that could help solve some unsolved cases. The podcast, called “Missing in the Metro,” features KXNO’s Ross Peterson and Heather Burnside, along with her husband, Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek, the department’s public information officer. “We have cases in Des Moines that need some attention and can maybe get some help from the public,” said Peterson, who helped come up with the idea. Burnside helped bring the podcast to life. “I kind of live with true crime, so for me, that’s not as much of an issue,” Burnside said. Every other week, the crew goes deep into missing persons and unsolved homicide cases in the Des Moines area. March 3, 2019 | by Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press IOWA CITY — An Iowa grandmother will stand trial Monday in the 1992 killing of her former boyfriend in a case built largely on an alleged confession heard by a child. The trial will test prosecutors’ ability to get a conviction in a case in which they have no physical evidence against Annette Cahill. Instead, the outcome may hinge on whether jurors believe a woman who says she was 9 when she overheard Cahill confess to killing bartender Corey Wieneke weeks after the slaying. Cahill has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Wieneke, 22, whose body was found in his West Liberty home in October 1992. If convicted, she faces life in prison. Full Story at WCFCourier.com March 1, 2019 | By Associated Press / NBCNews.com IOWA CITY — An Iowa grandmother will stand trial Monday in the 1992 killing of her former boyfriend in a case built largely on an alleged confession heard by a child. The trial will test prosecutors’ ability to get a conviction in a case in which they have no physical evidence against Annette Cahill. Instead, the outcome may hinge on whether jurors believe a woman who says she was 9 when she overheard Cahill confess to killing bartender Corey Wieneke weeks after the slaying. Cahill has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Wieneke, 22, whose body was found in his West Liberty home in October 1992. If convicted, she faces life in prison. Cahill, 56, is an unusual defendant. She has no criminal history and has continued her longtime job with the Police Law Institute, an Iowa-based company that helps train police officers nationwide, while awaiting trial. She has said that Wieneke was her best friend and that she wasn’t involved in his death, which devastated her. Many of her friends and relatives, who praise her cooking and quilting skills, say she is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. February 20, 2019 | by Bob James, KHAK.com December 19, 2018, on the 39th anniversary of the murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko of Cedar Rapids, police announced they made an arrest. Jerry Lynn Burns of Manchester has been charged with First Degree Murder in her death. His trial is scheduled for later this year. The murders and/or disappearances of five other teenage girls from Cedar Rapids remain unsolved… part of a lengthy list of Iowa Cold Cases here in Cedar Rapids. Erin Pospisil Erin Pospisil The most recent disappearance occurred on June 3, 2001. 15-year-old Erin Pospisil of Cedar Rapids left her home that day with Curtis Padgett, a friend of her brother’s. Padgett later told authorities after dropping her off at a friend’s house and not getting an answer at the door, she spoke briefly with people in a black Chevy Cavalier. He told police that Pospisil then got into the Cavalier, after telling Padgett she was going to get a ride from them. No witnesses have reported seeing the pickup Padgett was driving, or a black Cavalier, in the neighborhood that night. The search for Erin continues. February 13, 2019 | by Alicia Yager, The Telegraph Herald MAQUOKETA, Iowa — Jurors on Wednesday found a Dubuque man guilty of second-degree murder for killing a Bellevue resident. The 12 jurors returned the verdict against Drew A. Mangler, 24, after about eight and a half hours of deliberation at the Jackson County Courthouse in Maquoketa. They found that he killed James Remakel, 59, on Dec. 19, 2016, at his Bellevue home. His body was found on Christmas Day. Mangler’s trial started on Feb. 4. The conviction came on a lesser, included charge after Mangler originally was charged with first-degree murder. A conviction on the first-degree charge triggers an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole, while second-degree murder carries a 50-year prison term, with eligibility for parole after 35 years. Full story at the Telegraph Herald February 1, 2019 | by Tyler J. Davis, The Des Moines Register An Iowa man accused of killing a teenager 30 years ago will go on trial in October. The trial for Jerry Lynn Burns, who’s been charged with first-degree murder in the 1979 killing of Michelle Martinko, will begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 14 at Linn County Courthouse, according to online court records. Burns, 65, is accused of killing the 18-year-old Martinko outside of a Cedar Rapids mall in December 1979. She had been stabbed multiple times in the face and chest. Burns of Manchester went on to become a father and business owner. He was arrested in December — nearly 39 years to the day following the killing — after his DNA was found in the bloodied car where Martinko’s body was discovered. January 31, 2019 | by Luke Nozicka, The Des Moines Register A central Iowa man found responsible for his mother’s death by a civil jury will go to trial in criminal court in March in western Iowa, court records show. Jason Carter, 46, of Knoxville, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of his mother, Shirley, two days after the civil jury in December 2017 found him responsible for her June 2015 death. The jury ordered Carter to pay $10 million to Shirley’s estate. Earlier this week, the court set Carter’s criminal trial to begin March 4 in Pottawattamie County, transferring it out of Marion County because of pre-trial publicity. Shirley Carter, 68, died from two gunshot wounds from a medium-caliber rifle at her rural Marion County home. Jason Carter was sued by his father, Bill Carter, and his brother, Billy Dean Carter, after no one was charged in her death. Full Story at The Des Moines Register January 30, 2019 | by Mike Bell, The Daily Nonpareil Death is one of life’s few certainties. After all, everyone eventually faces it. Gloomy as that may be, there is a great deal of work that begins when someone meets their end. There are remains to be handled, next of kin to be contacted, services to be arranged, an obituary to write and, in most cases, a burial or ceremony to hold. But there are times when a human being dies and the process halts before it can even begin — when they are found without a name. The dead cannot speak for themselves, but investigators — either law enforcement or medical examiners — can sift through records for answers. Fingerprints, DNA, dental records and other scientific methods are the standards for filling in the blanks — but are not always possible. On Thursday, a deceased man or woman was found inside the former site of No Frills on West Broadway in Council Bluffs. The remains had been there for some time, according to authorities, so the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office was called in to perform an autopsy. Council Bluffs Police Sgt. Ted Roberts said there are several factors investigators take into consideration when they try to uncover a subject’s identity. Full Story at The Daily Nonpareil January 17, 2019 | by Jeff Reinitz, The Courier Rita Papakee (Courtesy Iowa Department of Public Safety) MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — Meskwaki authorities have doubled the reward for information on a missing tribal member who disappeared four years ago. Rita Janelle Papakee was last seen Jan. 16, 2015, at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel, and searches in the years that followed have come up empty. On Wednesday, tribal officials announced they’ve raised the reward for information on her whereabouts from $25,000 to $50,000. The Meskwaki Nation Police Department and Papakee’s family members are asking for renewed help in finding her. “It’s tragic. Rita’s disappearance has touched us all, individually and as a community. We are hoping for answers,” said Tribal Chairman Anthony Waseskuk. Papakee, who was 41 at the time of her disappearance, is a mother of four. Full Story at wcfcourier.com January 5, 2019 | by Bob Saar, The Hawk Eye Burlington welcomed Mayor Shane McCampbell and his Fireball Run co-driver, Energyficient CEO Chad Palmer, at a soiree Friday evening. It began at the Art Center as a meet-and-greet and ended at the Capitol Theater with a slideshow featuring McCampbell and Palmer’s 8-day, 2,000 mile trip in 2017. The pair competed on the online reality show “Fireball Run Season 11: Big Country” to raise awareness about Erin Kay Pospisil of Cedar Rapids, who went missing in 2001 at the age of 15. Full story at The Hawk Eye January 5, 2019 | KWWL.com WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) — Seven years have passed since the murder of 17-year-old Martavious “Tay Tay” Johnson. Johnson was reportedly shot in the back on January 5, 2012. The shooting happened on the 500 block of Sumner Street in Waterloo. His mother told KWWL that her son had been killed over cracking an innocent joke. “What was the reason what was the purpose. And how can they sleep with themselves knowing what they did-to somebody who was full of life, full of joy, loved hanging around his friends,” Tanya Johnson told KWWL in 2017. At the five year anniversary of Johnson’s death, police told KWWL they had possible suspects but were waiting on the right piece of information that could lead to an arrest. Full story at KWWL.com January 4, 2019 | The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — It’s not unusual for a county prosecutor to handle more than one pending homicide case within a year, but eight being resolved in 2018 is a much a higher rate than in the last several years, one Linn County prosecutor says. First Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks said these kinds of cases typically take a year or two before making it to trial, so to have all but one end in convictions — and at least two resulting in life sentences — shows how effective the Linn County Attorney’s Office has been when it takes a case to trial. Maybanks said significant costs, resources and time were saved last year because two cases didn’t go to trial, but no compromises were made. Those defendants — Nicholas Luerkens and Tim Evans — pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, a rare plea in Iowa because it’s an automatic life sentence without parole. Current News | 2020 Archives | 2019 Archives | 2018 Archives | 2017 Archives | 2016 Archives | 2015 Archives | 2014 Archives | 2013 Archives | 2012 Archives | 2011 Archives | 2010 Archives | 2009 Archives | 2008 and Earlier Archives
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