Gone Cold: Exploring Iowa’s Unsolved Murders

On August 23, 2015, in , by Jody Ewing

About Gone Cold   Gone Cold: Exploring Iowa’s Unsolved Murders is a collaborative partnership with the Iowa Newspaper Association and Iowa news organizations to revisit some of the most brutal and mystifying homicides in state history. The weekly series will feature a number of the state’s 438 unsolved murders, with articles published simultaneously across the state in […]

Chuck Deatsch

On January 26, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Elmer Charles “Chuck” Deatsch Jr. Homicide Chuck Deatsch Jr. 52 YOA 17841 500th Street Mystic, IA (near Centerville) Appanoose County April 28, 2008   Case summary by Jody Ewing   On April 28, 2008 at approximately 9:50 p.m., Chuck Deatsch, 52, was shot and killed at his residence in rural Mystic, Iowa. Authorities said the […]