Iowa cold cases in the news, stories and tributes, and the WHO-TV “Iowa Cold Case” series. The Channel 13/ICC series videos are most often embedded within a victim’s case summary page. Many other videos below link to YouTube.
Iowa Cold Cases Land in Spotlight 2:46 | May 10, 2012
KWWL Channel 7 Waterloo reports on the number of Iowa cold cases landing in the spotlight after one man’s confession.
Ashley Okland Murder Investigation 2:53 | April 2012
ABC5News reports on the one-year anniversary of West Des Moines real estate agent Ashley Okland’s murder.
Melisa Gregory and Steven Fisher
4:51 | May 6, 2011
Channel 13′s Aaron Brilbeck reports on the unsolved Copper Dollar Ranch double homicide.
America’s Missing: Johnny Gosch, 12 March 2, 2011 CNN’s Nancy Grace: America’s Missing features the case of missing Des Moines paperboy Johnny Gosch.
Jodi Huisentruit: Nancy Grace – America’s Missing February 22, 2011
CNN’s Nancy Grace features the case of missing Mason City anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Cecil Gaddy 4:29 | February 4, 2011
Channel 13′s Aaron Brilbeck reports on the mystery – and the questions – that surround Cecil Gaddy’s death.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Bobbi Crawford 4:19 | January 27, 2011
Roberta “Bobbi” Crawford was a fireball. The single mom raised her son, loved racquetball, skydiving, being a grandmother.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Thaddeus Mitchell 4:06 | December 2, 2010
Aaron Brilbeck reports on the Roaring 20s and the unsolved December 7, 1922 murder of Thaddeus Mitchell.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Hazel Reimann 3:27 | November 18, 2010
Eighty-seven-year-old Hazel Reimann broke six fingers trying to fight off her attacker.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Johnny Gosch
The Des Moines Paperboy’s 41st Birthday 6:30 | November 11, 2010
Aaron Brilbeck talks with Noreen Gosch about her son.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Paul Knockel 3:53 | October 7, 2010
A man — and his car — vanish along Highway 151. More than two decades later, both are still missing.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: John Wayne Jeffery 3:25 | September 23, 2010
A Des Moines man is gunned down while sitting in his car in a parking lot of an east side bar. His family wants answers.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Maureen Brubaker Farley 4:30 | September 16, 2010
It’s been four decades since a young bride moved from Sioux City to Cedar Rapids and was later found in a wooded ravine.
KCRG-TV Ch. 9: Rodricus Echols Jones 2:10 | September 13, 2010
A fatal shooting in Waterloo is prompting people to speak out about what they call dangerous establishments.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Martha “Marty” Erickson 3:34 | September 9, 2010
She was a protected baby sister and one whom recovering drug addicts leaned on for help. Aaron Brilbeck reports.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Greg Howell 4:30 | September 2, 2010
No arrests and no suspects in the 2005 disappearance and suspected death of a Fort Dodge man.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Phil Terrell 3:53 | August 26, 2010
A family’s pain has lasted for years as the murder of their father remains unsolved.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Julie Bell Davis 3:03 | August 19, 2010
A 33-year-old wife and mother of two brutally slain inside the office building where she worked.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Earl Thelander 5:00 | July 29, 2010
Copper thieves claimed a good man’s life over less than $20 worth of metal stolen to sell for scrap.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Frank Goff 3:25 | July 22, 2010
A father of two is killed after walking through the door of his parents’ home. Was his own brother responsible?
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Lisa McCuddin 4:41 | July 15, 2010
A young mother of two is shot while riding in a vehicle headed toward a Fort Dodge motel.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Eugene Martin 5:26 | July 8, 2010
Two years after Johnny Gosch disappears, a second Des Moines paperboy disappears without a trace.
WHOtv Iowa Cold Case: Evelyn Miller 3:37 | July 1, 2010
The five-year anniversary of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller’s murder passes without an arrest.
Still hoping DNA could solve the George A Leonard case. My 90 year old mother in law and the entire family would still like closure to this senseless act.
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Still hoping DNA could solve the George A Leonard case. My 90 year old mother in law and the entire family would still like closure to this senseless act.