Cold Cases in Anamosa, Iowa This page is dedicated to lifelong Anamosa resident Neal Townsend, who was shot and killed two months after taking a police officer position with the Lava Hot Springs Police Department in Bannock County, Idaho. Neal Robert Townsend 29 years old Lifelong Anamosa, Iowa, resident Died […]
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Helping Catch Bad Guys
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 […]
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Evelyn Resh
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 velyn Resh, 87, died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1997 after someone deliberately set fire to the Red Oak apartment house where she lived alone. Her death is one from a […]
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Red Oak
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 […]
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Keara Coshow
Keara Lee Coshow Homicide Name: Keara Lee Coshow Age: 3 years, 10 months Crime Location: Hill Top Motel 1303 Summit St. Red Oak, Iowa Montgomery County Case #: 79-07361 Date of Death: July 12, 1979 Cause of Death: Neurogenic shock / burns to entire body Case Summary credits: Janet Franson, Sandra Coshow, Bernadette Coshow, Jody […]
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Unknown Baby Boy
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 Unsolved Murders July 21, 2016 By […]
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Matthew Carter
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 ight days after a new Iowa hit-and-run law went into effect, Matthew Adam Carter, 21, was struck and killed […]
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Hopkinton
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 […]
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Sonja Connell
Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County Sonja Jeanette Connell Missing Person NAME: Sonja Jeanette Connell AGE AT REPORT: 33 WEIGHT: 150 lbs. HEIGHT: 5’06” RACE: White HAIR: Blonde EYES: Brown SEX: Female INCIDENT TYPE: Endangered / Physical MISSING FROM: Des Moines, IA CASE NUMBER: 2012-21769 NAMUS MP # 22357 POLK COUNTY MISSING SINCE: July 15, 2012 […]
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Larry Martin
Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County Larry Odell Martin Missing Person Name: Larry O. Martin Age at Report: 44 Weight: 195 lbs. Height: 5’11” Race: Black/African American Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Sex: Male Incident Type: Endangered / physical Missing From: Des Moines, IA Polk County Case Number: 1994-1345 NamUs MP#: 17067 Missing Since: December […]
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Zeineba Hassan
Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County Zeinaba Hassan Missing Person Name: Zeinaba Hassan Age at Report: 38 Height: 5’4″ Weight: 150 lbs. Hair: Black Left Eye Color: Brown Right Eye Color: Maroon Race: Black/African American Sex: Female Missing From: Des Moines, IA Polk County Case Number: 11-23776 NamUs MP #: 17094 Investigating Agency: Des […]
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Jeffrey James
Jeffrey W. James Missing Person Name: Jeffrey W. James Age at Report: 49 Weight: 165 lbs. Height: 5’11” Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Sex: Male Incident Type: Other adult missing Missing From: Waterloo, Iowa Black Hawk County Missing Since: January 1, 2014 effrey James, 49, was reported missing to the Waterloo Police Department […]
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Adalia Alvarez
Polk County in Iowa Des Moines in Polk County Adalia Alvarez Missing Person Name: Adalia Alvarez Age at Report: 25 Race: White Sex: Female Height: 5’3″ Weight: 120 lbs. Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Missing From: Des Moines, IA Polk County Case Number: 13-3576 NamUs MP #: 19681 Date Last Seen: April 1, 2009 Adalia Alvarez, 25, […]
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Anna Wiese
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 round 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, 1893, someone brutally attacked Anna “Annie” Wiese, 20, of Vienna Township in Marshall County, Iowa, as she walked home on […]
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Green Mountain
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, […]
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Empty Shotgun Shells Floating Downriver
Labor Day weekend. Every year. It’s when I close myself off … don’t read emails … don’t pick up my cell phone … don’t check iPhone or Facebook text messages … don’t want to do much of anything except sit staring at a blank screen until sleep once again turns me over to some kind of […]
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Justin Dollen
Justin Montravious Dollen Homicide Justin Montravious Dollen 27 YOA Fantasy Theater Waterloo, IA Black Hawk County August 30, 2015 ustin Montravious Dollen, 27, was shot outside the Fantasy Theater on Airline Highway in Waterloo early Sunday morning, Aug. 30, 2015. Authorities said the shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday and that Dollen sustained multiple […]
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Robert Ruby
Robert Lee Ruby Undetermined Robert Lee Ruby 54 YOA Bidwell Coal Mine Blakesburg, Iowa Wapello County January 11, 1936 Case information provided by Mr. Ruby’s great-granddaughter, Linda Jones Wapello County in Iowa Blakesburg in Wapello County obert Ruby, a 54-year-old Blakesburg miner, fell 87 feet to his death on Saturday, January 11, 1936, […]
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Terry Page
Des Moines County in Iowa Burlington in Des Moines County Terry Lee Page Homicide Terry Lee Page 36 YOA 1205 Franklin Street Burlington, IA Des Moines County Investigating Agency: Burlington Police Department June 25, 2013 erry Lee Page, 36, of Burlington, Iowa, was shot and killed outside his 1205 Franklin Street residence on the edge of North […]
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