Green Mountain

On August 25, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Green Mountain, Iowa             Homicide Anna “Annie Wiese 20 YOA Green Mountain, IA Marshall County August 26, 1893 Anna “Annie” Wiese, 20, was clubbed in the head, stabbed repeatedly in the breast and back, and her throat cut from ear to ear on Saturday night, Aug. 26, […]

Anna Wiese

On August 25, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Anna “Annie” Wiese Homicide NAME: Anna “Annie” Wiese AGE: 20 CITY: Green Mountain in Vienna Township (now located in Marion Township) COUNTY: Marshall County DATE OF DEATH: August 26, 1893   Around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, 1893, someone brutally attacked Anna “Annie” Wiese, 20, of Vienna Township in Marshall County, Iowa, as she […]

Hopkinton

On August 2, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Hopkinton, Iowa         Hit-and-Run Homicide Matthew Adam Carter 21 YOA Jones-Delaware Rd. Hopkinton, Iowa Delaware County July 9, 2006 Matthew Adam Carter, 21, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the early morning hours on Sunday, July 9, 2006, while walking home from a camping outing with […]

Matthew Carter

On August 2, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Matthew Adam Carter Hit-and-Run Homicide NAME: Matthew Adam Carter AGE: 21 CRIME: Hit-and-Run Homicide CRIME LOCATION: Jones-Delaware Rd., Southwest of Hopkinton, Iowa COUNTY: Delaware County JURISDICTION: Delaware County Sheriff’s Office DATE OF CRIME: Sunday, July 9, 2006   Eight days after a new Iowa hit-and-run law went into effect, Matthew Adam Carter, 21, was struck […]

Unknown Baby Boy

On July 22, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Unknown Baby Homicide NAME: Unidentified Newborn Baby Boy AGE: 2-3 hours old SCENE OF CRIME: Highway 30 about four miles west of Tama CITY: Tama COUNTY: Tama County DATE: June 11, 1952   “Unknown Baby” found on U.S. 30 in 1952 Tama County in Iowa   Tama in Tama County Gone Cold – Exploring Iowa’s […]

Red Oak

On June 19, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Red Oak, Iowa         Homicide Keara Lee Coshow Age: 3 Hilltop Motel 1303 Summit Rd. Red Oak, Iowa Montgomery County July 12, 1979 Keara Lee Coshow, 3 years old, was burned alive July 12, 1979, in the laundry room of the Hilltop Motel in Red Oak, Iowa, to cover […]

Evelyn Resh

On June 19, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Montgomery County in Iowa   Red Oak in Montgomery County Evelyn Resh Homicide Evelyn Resh 87 YOA 400 E. Coolbaugh St. Red Oak, Iowa Montgomery County September 16, 1997   Evelyn Resh, 87, died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1997 after someone deliberately set fire to the Red Oak apartment house where she lived alone. Her death […]

Helping Catch Bad Guys

On June 10, 2016, in Media, News, The Families, by Jody Ewing

 Ron Novak’s unsolved 1983 murder was one  of more than 50 cases featured by the Iowa  Newspaper Association and participating  newspapers across the state. The past, present, and future are inexorably linked, and nowhere has that been more clear than in the last year during our partnership with the Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) and its […]

Still Ours

On June 1, 2016, in , by Jody Ewing

Still Ours … but outside Iowa’s jurisdiction Though nearly all cases listed here on Iowa Cold Cases are handled by investigating agencies at Iowa’s local or state level or the FBI, a few cases do exist where the victim had Iowa ties but the case is currently under another state’s jurisdiction. For example, 21-year-old Tammy Zywicki grew up […]