His pickup was found parked about 70 yards away. On Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, Council Bluffs Police Captain Todd Weddum announced in a press release that police detectives had cleared the case after nearly four decades. Twenty-month-old John Joseph Snyder Jr., the son of John Snyder Sr. and Lisa Sellman, was reported as missing from his fathers 10 S. Adams Avenue Mason City apartment on Wednesday morning, July 20, 1994. Shortly after her return, Burtch left for approximately an hour-and-a-half. October 7, 2021. Robert Huntbach, 85, and his wife Goldie, 77, were bound, gagged and tortured in their modest Waterloo home before someone shot each of them twice in the head sometime late Sunday night, Jan. 12, 1981. 10 S. Adams Ave., Apt. On Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, Klein entered an Alford plea on charges of second-degree arson, willful injury causing serious injury and suborning perjury in the death. Johnson allegedly drove Preston around on gravel roads in rural Webster County before shooting and killing him. On Friday, July 27, 2012, the Clinton County Sheriffs Office announced they had arrested Cole and charged him with first-degree murder in Marburgers death. On Jan. 10, 2014, nearly 30 years after the triple homicide, DCI and Wapello County authorities announced that Andrew Wessel Six was responsible for the murders. The investigation revealed Ridnour was pursuing a relationship with Callahans 15-year-old granddaughter, which Callahan didnt agree with. Westdale Mall Husband, John Bloomfield, Arrested/Charged: Nov. 26, 2013 December 26, 2016 It's clear that in many cases, when cold cases do get solved, the suspect has already died. 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Clark and Hibbler each pleaded guilty to one count of interference with commerce by robbery. She was stabbed multiple times. . Iowa City, Iowa Farleys mother, Mary Brubaker, long suspected Smith was responsible, having written to police six months after her daughters death. Here is a link to the perps appeal (which the perp lost). old) of Dubuque, Iowa, became a suspect and an arrest warrant was issued on May 17, 2018. Went Missing From: Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on July 16, 2000 Agency: Marion Police Department Crime Date: December 25, 2016 However, the case gradually grew cold as the investigation stretched on. The prosecution did not resist either request, and the trial was rescheduled for February 10, 2020 in Scott County. Sac City, IA (Courtesy Council Bluffs Police Department). [22][12] From that, police were able to build a partial DNA profile. Iowa police have solved the 50-year-old cold case murder of a 17-year-old girl through DNA evidence. Arrest Made: Feb. 25, 2021, Mykel Roberts, 29, from Modesto, Calif., charged in Meeks death. Laymon said she and Martinko were in a self-defense class together, but added that "no amount of self-defense could have saved her from that.". Burns, who was 25 when Martinko died, made his first court appearance Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in Linn County. She told another person Wieneke had been killed with a baseball bat before that was public knowledge or the weapon had been recovered, officials said. Both parents have been gone for decades: Martinko'sfather died in 1995, and her mother died in 1998. 22 YOA Webster County Sentencing: August 23, 2018, sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, Michael Lee Syperda (Courtesy Quad-City Times). Firefighters discovered Hooks body about 4:30 p.m. after theyd extinguished the fire. Detectives considered charging the Commissioner with failure to pass along the information to police, but no charges were pursued. 33 YOA Sentenced: On Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand found Mitchell premeditated and intentionally killed Stickley, and robbed her to buy crack cocaine April 29, 2011. GEDmatch returned one person who shared DNA markers with the suspect in Martinko's murder, and it determined her to be likely the killer's second cousin once removed. Hit-and-Run Homicide He is currently being held in the Linn County Jail on a $3M bond. Clinton County The men responsible for Tony "T-Bone" Canfield's death pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa. Johnson was arrested in Cedar Rapids after being released from the Federal Bureau of Prisons after serving about five years for possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. (Courtesy Council Bluffs Police via Greg Gunsalus). Involuntary/Suspicious Disappearance/Homicide The Daily Beast . 211 15th St. The U.S. has 250,000 unsolved murders, a number that increases by about 6,000 each year, according to the FBI's Uniformed Crime Report data. [2], In 2006, 27 years after Martinko's killing, a new cold case investigator working for the Cedar Rapids Police Department received a tip connected to the case. A 911 phone call placed at 4:08 p.m. led Des Moines police officers to the Principal Park area near Vine and Southwest First streets, where they located a body beneath the railroad bridge near a bike trail on the Des Moines Rivers west bank. And yet i can find no records of his case file or court records of the trial for the man the was caught for his murder. Brian Lee Schappert, a 22-year-old Coe College senior, was killed during a robbery in the early morning hours on Friday, Sept. 8, 1989, while working the midnight shift alone at a Cedar Rapids Kum & Go convenience store. Victims for whom there was no justice, no resolution or answers. At first, detectives werent sure if Golinsky was killed or whether he had perhaps died by suicide or accident, Law & Crime reported Oct. 26. On June 23, 2016 he entered an Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter. Along that path were murdered victims most identified, some anonymous. Henry County Grief from losing their youngest daughter weighed heavily on Martinko's parents, Albert and Janet Martinko, according to news reports in the decades that followed. The residence was fully engulfed in flames and sustained major fire damage. Hundreds of people were interviewed and countless leads were followed, police said a year after the slaying. Cora Ann Okonski, a 23-year-old young mother engaged to be married the following month, went missing from her Tama, Iowa, home around 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 16, 2000. Relatives of Maureen Brubaker Farley, whose body was found by two. [18][19], Controversy arose five months after the murder, after a woman who was driving by the mall parking lot in the early hours of December 20 came forward with information. Found: Area of Rock Creek cabins at 2829 U.S. 67 A juvenile found carrying a knife was interviewed and ruled out in her murder, as was a shopping center employee who had told police that he enjoyed following women and ogling store mannequins. (KELO) 23-year-old Wilma Nissen's life was as troubling as her death. The Linn County medical examiner ruled Farley had been dead no less than 48 hours and no more than 96 hours, and said death was caused by a massive blow to the right side of her head, causing a basal skull fracture. DNA technology unavailable at the time of Farley's killing allowed police to confirm that Smith was Farleys killer. Case Solved: January 10, 2014. Mangler has been charged with Murder in the First Degree in violation of Iowa Criminal Code Sections 707.1 and 707.2(1). 1500 block alley between Second and Third avenues SE Date Charges Filed: Sept. 27, 2012 pic.twitter.com/COPUDpaDMP, Within days ofMartinko's killing, police received more than 200 phone calls and letters from people who wanted to help, according to Des Moines Register archives. He could not offer a "plausible explanation" forwhy his DNA was found at the crime scene, authorities said. 5 YOA On Sept. 7, 2016, Courtland Clark was sentenced to 21 years in prison for his role in Tony Canfields death. Floyd, Iowa Fort Dodge, IA From a native Iowan born and raised it's time to give victims their voices back and a Investigating Agency: Cedar Rapids Police Department Newton, IA Lance Lee DeWoody, 22, of North Liberty, Iowa, was shot in the head and neck at a picnic shelter on the north side of the University of Iowas Oakdale campus in Coralville sometime between late Monday night, August 12, 1985, and early Tuesday morning. Blog The. 56 YOA In 2001, authorities submitted evidence collected at the scene of Lee Rotatori's murder to a state crime lab for further analysis. Arrest Made: July 15, 2013 Est. 1613 S. 13th St., Apt. Second Trial: Sept. 9, 2019 in Muscatine 52 YOA Wienekes fiance, Jody Hotz, also of West Liberty, last saw him alive around 8:15 a.m. that morning and discovered his beaten body in his bedroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening. Case # 92-08083 The case went cold, but in February 2016, Pottawattamie County detectives asked the Omaha police cold case unit to assist in the investigation. Des Moines, IA [2] She did not have many close girlfriends or confidantes, which was speculated to be caused by jealousy from other students over her beauty and stylish clothes[11] or conflict over a boy she had dated. To date, there are more than 600 unsolved homicides and disappearances in the state of Iowa. Police interviewed numerous people, and several were cleared of suspicion through use of a polygraph. Linn County Or maybe chat. 20 months old Federal prosecutors charge and indict Mitchell April 26, 2016, in U.S. District Court for violently robbing Stickley on April 29, 2011. 54 YOA "Maybe we didnt (get) full justice in this world, but Im sure that he did in the next.". Police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, on Wednesday morning, Dec. 19, 2018, in the decades-old fatal stabbing. Tama County Friday, June 10, 2016. In the early hours of December 20, 1979, the body of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found in her car in the parking lot of a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jasper County Attorney Mike Jacobsen said his office would not have brought charges against Supino if they didnt feel they could get a guilty verdict. Arrest Made: June 8, 2011 Lade, like the others, had died from blows to the head. Charged: Christopher Johnson, 49, of Cedar Rapids. Police arrested Jerry Lynn Burns, 64, on Wednesday morning in the decades-old fatal stabbing. Shed been strangled. On or around January 11, 2007, Angela Hennes, 41, was strangled to death, her body set on fire and then dumped in a farm field off Seven Sisters Road in rural Scott County. At 11:08 a.m. on Friday, October 24, 2008, Marburgers partially nude remains were discovered in a ditch in the Rock Creek Cabin area at 2829 U.S. 67 in Camanche. [16] Based on cash found in Martinko's purse, police concluded that she had not been robbed. [10] She wore a black jersey dress and black scarf, black tights and heels, and a waist-length white and brown rabbit fur jacket, and she carried a brown leather purse. I think it is great there is justice be served for these lost people!!! Mistrial Declared: March 12, 2019 Pottawattamie County "I am thrilled for her sister, Janelle, and wish her parents were alive to see this," Laymon said. Alysia Kay Marburger, 27, was last seen alive leaving a friends apartment with Andy Cole of Clinton about 2:15 a.m. October 7, 2008. The death was ruled a homicide. Case Closed/Solved: On Oct. 5, 2021, police announced DNA had helped identify her killer, George M. Smith, who died in 2013. Body Identified: November 2014. [2] A police spokesman said that "everyone's instinct is to say it was a guy", but they were not sure of the sex of the killer. Sentencing: March 22, 2019. Shed been beaten severely, put inside her vehicle, and the car then set afire after being rolled down an embankment. A Gazette story published Sept. 16, 2019, said the trial for Burns will likely be postponed because the defense may need additional technical information and expert witnesses to prepare for the trial. Pottawattamie County Approx. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Johnson was taken to the Webster County Jail on a $1 million cash bond. [1][5] Iowan law mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. Canfield fought back and managed to escape by running out the front door. Verdict: Feb. 20, 2015 Theresa Supino acquitted. Almost a decade later, Mykel Roberts, 29, of Modesto, Calif., confessed to killing Meeks. Both the suspected killers were living in Cedar Rapids at the time Brian was slain while working at a Kum & Go on Mount Vernon Road SE, Denlinger said. Iowa Cold Cases, Inc., an Iowa nonprofit organization, is a compendium of murders gone cold and missing persons who disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Council Bluffs, IA All rights reserved. Council Bluffs Police officers were sent to investigate the death of a female at the Best Western Frontier Motor Lodge motel at 2216 27th Avenue in Council Bluffs, Iowa, at 12:27 p.m. Friday, June 25, 1982, after a motel employee found a body. Holly Rae Durben, 29, was shot to death on Saturday, July 18, 2009, in the Shenandoah home she shared with her boyfriend, Brian Heath Davis. Youll need to fire up some Crystal Meth or something to attempt to follow anything shes trying to articulate beyond that totally unintelligible. Arrests Made: March 24, 2016 James Jim Remakel, 59, was stabbed to death inside his 606 South Riverview Street home in Bellevue, Iowa, on Sunday, December 25, 2016. On Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, Hibbler was sentenced to serve 35 years in prison; Beaver was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. Trial Began: May 10, 2017 [9] After the event, she asked her friend and twirling squad teammate if she wanted to join her on a shopping trip to the Westdale Mall, which had recently opened, and where Martinko worked. U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand found Mitchell premeditated and intentionally killed cabdriver and mother Catherine Ann Boyle Stickley, 54, of Cedar Rapids, and robbed her to buy crack cocaine April 29, 2011. GONE COLD: EXPLORING IOWA'S UNSOLVED MURDERS; RECENT NEWS; News Archives 2019; NEWS ARCHIVES 2018; NEWS ARCHIVES 2017; NEWS ARCHIVES 2016; NEWS ARCHIVES 2015; NEWS . She was unsure her information would be of any use because she had read that the murder happened between 10p.m. and midnight, and it was 2a.m. when she drove by. She claimed to have seen two cars in the lot, one of which was Martinko's, and a man standing next to the open driver's side door of Martinko's car. In that year, Sherri Miller and Pam Jackson, both 17, disappeared while driving on rural roads to a party at a gravel pit in a 1960 Studebaker Lark. On Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, Casey Frederiksen was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree sexual abuse in connection with Evelyns death. Prosecutors said they did so through means of actual and threatened force. As the investigation slowed, a $10,000 reward was offered. Polk County He died Nov. 6, 2014 while awaiting trial. Maureen Brubaker-Farley was reported missing on Sept. 20, 1971. In April 2019, Council Bluffs investigators submitted the unknown male DNA profile to Parabon Nanolabs to begin a genetic genealogy case. It was absolutely crucial, Dr. Schmunck told Channel 13s Brilbeck. 11612 140th Street In February 2022, authorities announced they finally solved Rotatori's murder using evidence collected from the crime scene in 1982. Hi Richard, I am sorry that I could not find a photo of the perp. [2][16] At 2a.m., since Martinko had still not returned home, her father reported her missing. On August 7, 2020, Burns was sentenced to life in prison without parole. At 11 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 2011, three men Courtland Clark, 26, of Flowery Branch, Georgia, Robert Beaver, 35, of Sioux City, and Devery Hibbler, 26, of Dumas, Arkansas entered the 1401 George St., Sioux City apartment belonging to Dana and Tony Canfield in order to rob Tony of his marijuana and cash. Polk County Arrest Made: Feb. 3, 2023 In a statement announcing the arrest, police said Burns was questioned at his job Wednesday, Dec. 19, in Manchester and that he denied killing Martinko. Coralville, IA SE On July 14, 2014 just six days before the cases 20th anniversary Cerro Gordo County jurors acquitted Cisneros, despite the DNA evidence, after public defender Letitia Turney based her entire defense not on her clients innocence but by defaming the boys father to make him appear responsible for the crime. This page is dedicated to the many past and present investigators who never gave up on seeing justice served for the victim and his or her family. His vehicle remained parked in the garage. Police suspected Rulli was the killer early in the investigation but didnt have enough to move forward with an arrest. And Im quite happy to say that 30 years after the fact, we did not give up and we did not settle on suspects that were frankly not the right guys., 51 YOA [2] That narrowed the suspects down to a set of three brothers, who had grown up in Manchester, Iowa. At this point Hibbler then shot Canfield in the head on the front porch. Mary Jayne Jones, 17, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was found slain in a farmhouse near Blakesburg, Iowa, on Tuesday, April 9, 1974. Kim & Go Convenience Store 23 YOA On Friday, April 29, 2011, someone stabbed Cedar Rapids cab driver Catherine Ann Cathy Stickley 18 times in the neck and head before stealing the cab fare money from the 54-year-old mother of four children and five grandchildren. (Council Bluffs) -- A suspect is in custody in connection with a 38-year-old murder case in Pottawattamie County. Date of Death: Oct. 18, 2005 57 YOA Farleys sister, Lisa Schenzel, told Fox News the family is relieved to have some closure but is still angry her killer died before justice could be served. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Various authors have claimed to have solved the case with books such as "Slaughter on North LaSalle" by . The multi-jurisdictional investigation included the Bellevue Police Department, Iowa Department of Public Safetys Division of Criminal Investigation, Division of Criminal Investigation Criminalistics Laboratory, Dubuque Police Department, Jackson County Sheriffs Office, Jackson County Attorneys Office and the Iowa Attorney Generals Office. Arrest Made: December 9, 2016 Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Using newer technology, Cedar Rapids police were able to procure DNA from case evidence in 2006. On Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, a Webster County jury found McElroy guilty as charged. [33] Prosecutors called a criminalist to contradict the defense's witness; the criminalist said that the storage of Martinko's clothing was not unusual. 606 South Riverview Drive [10] Police considered the killing to be "personal in nature" based on the number and location of stab wounds. On Aug. 14, 2017, the judge overturned the guilty verdict, and Purk went to trial for a second time on Nov. 6, 2017. Ely Road SW All rights reserved. [2][23] On December 19, 2018, investigators went to Burns' business in Manchester, Iowa, to interview him. Iowa Cold Cases. 10 Martinko then asked another acquaintance to go to the mall with her; that friend said yes at first but later changed her mind. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Police interviewed Smith in 1971 but did not have enough evidence to charge him or any other suspect. Their findings were submitted to the Iowa Attorney Generals Office and the Tama County Attorneys Office. Also, to the effect that you want to know why, the answer is probably that the perp is just another criminally versatile person. Bellevue Police requested assistance from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) with the suspicious death investigation. Although Burns's arrest in the Martinko case raised questions about the two incidents, police do not believe Burns was involved in either one. Busch pleaded guilty in April to Conspiracy to Commit Robbery Affecting Interstate Commerce and Discharging a Firearm During a Crime of Violence Resulting in Murder in connection to the death of James Booher, a known drug dealer, in 2014. [10][11] She was also a talented performer, joined the twirling squad as a sophomore, and performed in choirs and theater productions. Throughout the investigation it was determined that DeWoody was dating the wife of Burtch. On Monday, July 15, 2013, Mason City police and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation held a press conference stating that Michael Jason Cisneros, 37, formerly of Mason City, had been charged with first-degree murder in John Snyder Jr.s death.
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