Ronette Lynn (Peterson) Burton Homicide Jane Doe gets name after 19 years Ronette Lynn (Peterson) Burton 22 YOA DOB: July 14, 1963 Went Missing from: Madrid, IA Boone County Body found: May 7, 1986 in Lakeland, Florida Identified as Ronette Peterson in January 2005 Case summary compiled by Jody Ewing Boone County in […]
Double Homicide Emanuel Burgs and Celestina Payano Emanuel Burgs Jr. II, 21 Celestina Gaynel Payano, 22 1831 Mondamin Ave. Des Moines, IA Polk County Case # 2002-36527 September 12, 2002 Slayings Keep D.M. Police Stumped September 13, 2003 | DES MOINES REGISTER By Tara Deering Des Moines Register Staff Writer Polk County in Iowa […]
Bryan Eugene Pence Homicide Bryan Eugene Pence 21 YOA 3725 Frederick M. Hubbell Avenue Des Moines, IA Polk County Case # 1986-22875 May 29, 1986 Case Summary compiled by Jody Ewing Bryan Eugene Pence, a 21-year-old Sinclair Service Station employee, was shot in the back around 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, 1986, during […]
Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County John Shuey Homicide John Scott Shuey 27 YOA 1427 23rd Street Des Moines, IA Polk County Case # 1986-12024 Approx. Date of Death: March 22, 1986 Body Found: March 24, 1986 John Shuey, a 27-year-old plumber and drywall installer, was found stabbed to […]
Michael J. Booth Homicide Michael Jerome Booth 45 YOA 510 15th St. #21 Des Moines, IA Polk County DMPD Case Number: 1997-17132 April 26, 1997 On Saturday, April 26, 1997, an apartment building maintenance man discovered the deceased body of Michael Jerome Booth, 45, in apartment #21 at 510 15th Street. Booth, who’d […]
DesMoinesRegister.com March 18, 2008 Lawmakers consider ‘cold case’ unit for unsolved murders JASON CLAYWORTH REGISTER STAFF WRITER Iowa moved closer today to the creation of the first statewide unsolved murder cold-case unit when lawmakers included the idea as part of a budget proposal. “We’ve demonstrated in the past that if we can dedicate time […]
DesMoinesRegister.com May 2, 2010 Mystery of son’s death haunts Urbandale couple By DANIEL P. FINNEY dafinney@dmreg.com A for-sale sign pokes out of the freshly cut grass in front of Chad and Tammy Parks’ Urbandale home. The gray split-level holds too much anguish for the couple and their daughter Adra, 11, to stay any longer. Nearly […]
Timothy Charles Earney Homicide Timothy Charles Earney 29 YOA Case # 84-00561 322 N. Eighth St. Albia, IA Monroe County February 2, 1984 Timothy C. Earney, 29, was found dead in his 322 N. Eighth St. Albia home on Thursday, Feb. 2, 1984, by his live-in girlfriend, Dorothy Lee Kempf, 45. Monroe County in […]
Darrell Romain Lewis, Sr. Homicide Darrell Romain Lewis, Sr. 39 YOA 2100 block Carpenter Avenue Des Moines, IA Polk County Case # 1995-58887 December 24, 1995 Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County Darrell R. Lewis Sr., 39, was found shot to death in Des Moines, Iowa, around 12:40 a.m. on […]
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