This weekend came to a close, as have many years past, with five Iowa families wondering what happened to loved ones. In cases that spanned more than five decades, family members still ask when answers will come and justice will be served for a Sioux City teen, a man who fought in World War II […]
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Weekend Anniversaries: Greg, Terri, “Kip,” Lyman, and George
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“I Can Remember…” A Guest Blog by Jennifer McCuddin
Intro by Iowa Cold Cases Courtesy photo Becky McCuddin Lisa McCuddin with her son Davontrez and daughter Markasia in early 2004. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 will mark a sorrowful milestone anniversary for one North Central Iowa family. It will represent 10 years since Lisa McCuddin — just four days shy of her 24th birthday — was shot […]
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A Partnership in Crime
In Casablanca, Rick says to Louie, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” This week, I’m grateful to see the beginnings of a beautiful partnership that first took root in April and produced its first blooms Sunday. The Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) and Iowa Cold Cases (ICC) have partnered for a new weekly project […]
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Tell My Mom I’ll Be Right Back
Today’s guest blog post is written by Julie Loose, sister of Iowa cold case victim Kim Loose, with additional comments from some of Kim’s other siblings. Kim, one of 10 siblings with nine still living at home in Blue Grass, Iowa, was just 16 when she died Sept. 26, 1986 from multiple injuries after leaving a friend’s […]
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More Growing Pains
I’ve got to hand it to BlueHost.com for batting a thousand when it comes to tech support. Several years ago I’d switched from a previous website hosting service to BlueHost, and over the years, as iowacoldcases.org traffic increased, they always steered me in the right direction as to what plan best suited our size and […]
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Guest Blog: I Never Knew You
Today’s guest blog post is written by Cindy Kraft-Chevalier, the niece of Council Bluffs Police Officer John L. Stephens. Stephens, 32, and Paul J. Rayer, 51, were shot and killed on Tuesday, December 5, 1967, during a robbery of “Club 64,” an upscale steakhouse about a half-mile east of Council Bluffs’ city limits where Stephens moonlighted […]
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Never Another New Year’s Celebration
When Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859, he wasn’t thinking about the days leading up to Christmas, the short time between Christmas and New Year’s Day, or the beginning of yet another year without long awaited answers. Yet in the first few words of this remarkable novel, he seems to capture […]
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Police Sgt. Writes about Missing Brother
Ottumwa Police Sergeant Mark Milligan shares an open letter to the public on Facebook about his missing brother, Harry Milligan, 21, who went missing from Albia in Monroe County, Iowa, on July 1, 1984. Harry’s disappearance is classified as “Involuntary” and foul play is suspected. By Mark Milligan PLEASE SHARE ….I Think with the New Year […]
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Erin Pospisil’s family puts new focus on milestone anniversary
Today, Erin Kay Pospisil of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, would have celebrated her 30th birthday. She has now missed 15 Christmases and 15 birthdays and has been gone for as many years as she was here. This year, instead of a balloon release to celebrate her birthday, her family will mark her absence by helping local students […]
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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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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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5 Lost Birthdays
We all love celebrating birthdays, especially (these days) on Facebook. We send all sorts of good wishes, emojis of birthday cakes and big “Happy Birthday!” images, and tell our friends and loved ones we wish them another great or exciting or successful next year. When I last updated the ICC homepage, I couldn’t help but […]
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7 Days, 14 Anniversaries
Cold case anniversaries are always tough. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the anniversary of a loved one’s unsolved homicide, a birthday he or she would have celebrated, or even the date the body may have been found. The most important lesson I’ve learned in my years writing about cold cases is that it doesn’t matter […]
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Help Keep Iowa Cold Cases Online
The Iowa Cold Cases website needs your help. Our web hosting service — which runs on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) due to the volume of traffic on the site — was up for its annual renewal May 5. They have granted us a courtesy extension for two weeks. In the last 12 months, our […]
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September 7, 1925 – 1992
Today marks four cold case anniversaries, dating from Sept. 7, 1925 to Sept. 7, 1992 … nearly seven decades … but families are still awaiting answers. All four victims could have changed countless lives had their own not been so abruptly cut short. Myrtle Underwood Cook, 51, sat near a window in her Vinton, Iowa, […]
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Tyrese Robert Parson
Tyrese Robert Parson Homicide 17 YOA 2223 E Rose Ave Des Moines, IA Friday, June 8 2018 His smile could light up a room, and that light was extinguished on June 8, 2018. Tyrese Parson, age 17, loved bicycling, listening to music, and most of all spending time with his family and friends. Tyrese […]
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Charity Event Planned to Raise Funds for Harry Milligan Search, Reward
ALBIA – A July charity event is planned for an Albia, Iowa man who went missing without a trace nearly 38 years ago. Harry Dennis Milligan, 21, vanished from Albia during the early morning hours of Sunday, July 1, 1984, after a night out with friends. A “Light the Night Charity Event and Fun Ride” […]
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Upcoming Physical Server Move to New Facility
Our web hosting server, InMotion Hosting (IMH), is scheduled to be moved after midnight tonight to IMH’s new state-of-the-art data center facility in the downtown Los Angeles area. We did not initiate the change; IMH is simply expanding their service and relocating some of its servers. According to a Nov. 13 email from InMotion Hosting […]
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