Mary Jayne Jones Homicide — SOLVED Mary Jayne Jones 17 YOA Blakesburg, IA / Ottumwa, IA Wapello County Case Number: 74-00243 April 9, 1974 Mary Jayne Jones, 17, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was found slain in a farmhouse near Blakesburg, Iowa, on Tuesday, April 9, 1974. She had been sexually assaulted and shot once in the […]
Wilma June Nissen Homicide Wilma June Nissen 23 YOA Cops offer $10,000 reward for Lyon Co. cold case,” by Molly Montag, The Sioux City Journal, Feb. 16, 2009 “Evidence from Nissen’s remains will go to FBI lab,” by Dolly A. Butz, The Sioux City Journal, Oct. 4, 2007 “Tests fail to reveal cause of death […]
Ronald F. Lipsius Homicide Ronald F. Lipsius 30 YOA 812 S. Summit St. Iowa City, IA Johnson County May 16, 1966 Case Summary compiled by Jody Ewing Ronald F. Lipsius, a 30-year-old Iowa City grocer, was shot to death on Monday, May 16, 1966 as he chased a woman bandit who’d just scooped $35 from […]
John Joseph Snyder Jr. HOMICIDE: Suspect Acquitted at Trial VICTIM: John J. Snyder Jr. AGE: 20 months old THE CRIME: First-degree Murder WHEN: July 20, 1994 WHERE: Taken from 10 S. Adams Ave., Apt. 1, $500,000 bond set for suspect in Snyder boy’s murder,” Mason City Globe Gazette, July 16, 2013 “Background of Michael Cisneros,” […]
In part two of her series, KCRG TV-9’s Ashley Hinson spoke with law enforcement from all around eastern Iowa and went inside the DCI laboratories in Ankeny, where they conduct DNA analysis, look at fingerprints and break down bullets — all in the name of trying to solve cases gone cold. This piece aired on […]
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