Wilma June Nissen

On January 22, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Wilma June Nissen Homicide Wilma June Nissen 23 YOA Rock Rapids, Iowa Lyon County, Iowa Case Number: 78-06487 October 4, 1978   UPDATE Suspect sought in 1978 cold case murder of Wilma Nissen Lyon County Chief Deputy Jerry Birkey announced May 2, 2016, a major development in the 38-year-old cold case of Wilma June Nissen, […]

Rock Rapids

On November 28, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Rock Rapids, Iowa     Homicide: Wilma June Nissen 23 YOA Rock Rapids, IA Lyon County, Iowa Case # 78-06487 October 4, 1978 On the morning of Oct. 4, 1978, a telephone company employee stumbled upon Wilma June Nissen’s body while laying cable near West Lyon School on Highway 182. Nissen’s body, […]

Lyon County

On November 17, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Lyon County, Iowa   Homicide: Wilma June Nissen 23 YOA Lyon County, Iowa Case # 78-06487 October 4, 1978 On the morning of Oct. 4, 1978, a telephone company employee stumbled upon Wilma June Nissen’s body while laying cable near West Lyon School on Highway 182. Nissen’s body, which investigators believe was […]

Law Enforcement Officials offer Rewards in Two Iowa Cold Cases

On February 17, 2009, in Rewards, by Jody Ewing

In the past week, officials from two separate Iowa counties offered rewards for information on two unsolved western Iowa homicides. On February 10, Ida County Sheriff Wade Harriman announced a $5,000 reward in the case of 21-year-old Connie Ruddy, who disappeared from her Ida Grove home on Feb. 10, 1997, and whose jawbone was found […]