Scott M. Tompkins Homicide Scott M. Tompkins 23 YOA Park Ave. and Harrison St. intersection Muscatine, IA Muscatine County Case # 95-13656 November 29, 1995 Case summary by Jody Ewing Scott M. Tompkins, 23, was shot by an assailant(s) on November 29, 1995, while stopped to fix his windshield wipers at the intersection […]
Mildred Adaline Clemenson Homicide Mildred Adaline Clemenson 81 YOA DCI Case Number: 98-12891 3926 Ironwood Avenue Kensett, Iowa Worth County November 9, 1998 Case Summary by Jody Ewing Worth County in Iowa Kensett in Worth County Mildred Adaline “Millie” Clemenson, 81, was brutally slain on Monday, Nov. 9, 1998, inside her rural Kensett, […]
Jorge L. “George” [or “Louie”] Gutierrez, Sr. Homicide Jorge “Louie” Gutierrez, Sr. 47 YOA 3400 block of South Concorde St. Davenport, IA Scott County October 19, 2004 Jorge L. “George” [or “Louie”] Gutierrez, Sr., of East Moline, Ill., was found wrapped in a sleeping bag in the bed of his maroon 1983 Chevrolet […]
Karen Theresa Streed Homicide Karen Theresa Streed 21 YOA Case # 71-00703 Home Residence: Cedar Rapids, IA (Linn County) Body Found in Amana, IA (Iowa County) Investigating Agency: Iowa County Sheriff’s Office Body Found October 24, 1971 Disappeared/DOD: October 18, 1971 Case summary compiled by Jody Ewing On Sunday, October 24, 1971, Karen Theresa […]
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 […]
Triple Homicide SOLVED Justin Alfred Hook, Jr., 20 Sarah Lee Link, 41 Tina Marie Lade, 19 Drakesville, IA (Davis County) Eldon, IA (Wapello County) Case # 84-01854 April 13, 1984 UPDATE: DNA Links Executed Convict to 1984 Triple Murder OTTUMWA, Iowa — In a news conference held Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 at the Wapello […]
Terri McCauley (Courtesy photo Sioux City Police Department) Terri McCauley SIOUX CITY COLD CASES Teen’s Murder: More Questions than Answers By Jody Ewing July 15, 2004 Early Sunday, Sept. 25, 1983 It is a typical Sunday morning in the Warner-McCauley household, a duplex located at 1501 Pierce St. and shared by 18-year-old Terri McCauley, her […]
Lee Gunsalus Rotatori Homicide — SOLVED Lee Gunsalus Rotatori 32 YOA Best Western Frontier Motor Lodge 2216 27th Avenue, Rm #106 Council Bluffs, IA Pottawattamie County Case Number: F82-2558 June 25, 1982 Case Cleared: Feb. 25, 2022 Perpetrator: Thomas O. Freeman of West Frankfort, Ill. Freeman was killed four months after authorities allege he killed […]
Linda Mayfield Homicide Linda Mayfield 21 YOA 3320 West Broadway Council Bluffs, IA Pottawattamie County Case Number: D82-0713 April 9, 1982 Pottawattamie County in Iowa Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie County On April 9, 1982 at 2:18 a.m., officers were called to the Starlite Motel at 3320 West Broadway in Council Bluffs, […]
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