Maurice Kneifl

On February 4, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Maurice P. Kneifl Missing Person Maurice P. Kneifl Age at Report: 58 DOB: August 28, 1924 Height: 5′ 7″ Weight: 200 lbs. Eye Color: Green Sioux City, IA Woodbury County Investigating Agency: Sioux City Police Department Case Number: 83-5739 NCIC Number: M-115379226 NamUs MP Number: 17056 Last Seen Alive: February 14, 1983   Case summary […]

Jimmy Bremmers

On January 30, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Jimmy Bremmers Homicide Jimmy Bremmers 8 YOA 2701 Cottage Ave. Sioux City, IA Woodbury County Body found in Plymouth County DOD: August 31, 1954 Case summary by Jody Ewing Woodbury County in Iowa   Sioux City in Woodbury County After dinner on Tuesday, August 31, 1954, 8-year-old Jimmy Bremmers went to his friend Joey Hamel’s […]

Helen Kelly

On January 29, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Helen Jean (Braunger) Kelly Missing, Presumed Deceased Helen J. Kelly 83 YOA DOB: 8/26/21 White female Missing From: 3646 Court Street Sioux City, IA Woodbury County Agency: Sioux City Police Department Case Number: SCPD 14-18463 NamUs MP # 17050 Missing Since: May 18, 2005   Case Summary by Jody Ewing   Eighty-three-year-old Helen Kelly kept […]

Adrian Reuwsaat

On January 3, 2011, in , by Jody Ewing

Adrian Charles Reuwsaat Missing Person Name: Adrian Charles Reuwsaat Age at Report: 69 YOA DOB: January 28, 1933 Weight: 190 lbs. Height: 5′ 08″ Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Blue Missing From: Sioux City, IA Woodbury County Investigating Agency: Sioux City Police Department Incident Type: Involuntary disappearance NamUs MP #: 17276 Date Last Seen Alive: […]

Betty Swetnam

On December 31, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Courtesy Sioux City Police Department Betty Swetnam, 74, suffered a brutal and violet death in this west-side Sioux City, Iowa home. The elderly woman operated a massage business out of her basement. Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Swetnam Homicide Betty J. Swetnam 73 YOA 1610 West 19th St. Sioux City, Iowa Woodbury County December 31, 1993   Betty […]

Correctionville

On November 27, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Woodbury County in Iowa Correctionville in Woodbury County Cold Cases in Correctionville, Iowa   Homicide Leo Joseph Smith 56 YOA Correctionville, IA Woodbury County Case # 69-00525 April 10, 1969 Early Thursday, April 10, 1969, Iowa Highway Patrol officers found 56-year-old Leo Joseph Smith’s body at a rest area on Highway 20 thirty miles east […]

Plymouth County

On November 13, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Plymouth County, Iowa     Homicide: Alta Marie Braun 12 YOA Alley off Cedar Street Le Mars, IA Plymouth County August 20, 1917 Alta Marie Braun, 12, was raped and strangled while on the way home from riding a carnival merry-go-round in Le Mars on August 20, 1917.     Homicide: Jimmy […]

Sioux City

On November 13, 2010, in , by Jody Ewing

Cold Cases in Sioux City, IA         Homicide Rev. George Haddock 56 YOA Corner of 3rd and Water streets Sioux City, IA Woodbury County August 3, 1886 Just after 10 p.m. on August 3, 1886, the Reverend George Haddock of Sioux City, Iowa, was shot as he left his buggy at the […]

The Darling of the Neighborhood

On July 14, 2010, in Anniversaries, by Jody Ewing

Donna Sue Davis hadn’t yet reached her second birthday. The 22-month-old 21-pound blue-eyed girl with the mass of dark blond curly hair was the youngest of James (“Don”) and Mary Davis’s three children, and her three prized possessions included her teddy bear, a rubber doll and a red purse. Eleven-year-old Mary Claire, the eldest of […]

The Want Ad Murder: Patricia Jauron

On May 26, 2010, in Anniversaries, by Jody Ewing

On Tuesday, May 26, 1998, sometime between 9:00 and 9:45 a.m., Patricia Anne “Pat” Jauron, 45, was viciously stabbed to death in the rural Sioux City home she and her husband, Eugene “Gene” Jauron, had just vacated. The couple had recently moved out of one home at 1516 Old Highway 141 and into another across the […]