Denise Fraley was 30 when she went missing from her home in Cedar Rapids in 1982. Her husband said she took off, but she left her 2-year-old daughter and everything she owned behind, including money in the bank. Will new blood evidence solve this case decades later?
Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Police Department
Crime & Courts Mar. 10, 2025 9:19 am352d ago
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has released the names of three people who were found dead Thursday in what police believe was a double murder/suicide.
Crime & Courts Mar. 4, 2025 7:32 am358d ago
A police investigator said Cameron Leonard’s two interviews with police were inconsistent about the night he fatally shot a DoorDash driver who had delivered food to his brother. Leonard said the shooting stemmed from an earlier conflict over their sister.
News Feb. 28, 2025 4:16 pm362d ago
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking for the public’s help as its investigates a body found in the city’s southwest quadrant.
Crime & Courts Feb. 28, 2025 9:35 am362d ago
Cedar Rapids police testified Thursday about the crime scene and evidence found outside a northeast side apartment complex Oct. 5, 2023, when they discovered a DoorDash delivery driver and customer fatally shot, and another man with severe gunshot injuries.
Crime & Courts Feb. 26, 2025 1:49 pm364d ago
A federal lawsuit, which is the second for the City of Cedar Rapids involving former police dog Ace, was settled for $50,000. The dog bit a teen wrongly arrested in 2020. The settlement was approved Tuesday.
Crime & Courts Feb. 25, 2025 8:34 am365d ago
One person was injured and one was arrested after a reported stabbing Monday in Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Crime & Courts Feb. 24, 2025 1:37 pm366d ago
A Grimes man arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids after an 11-hour standoff shot at Cedar Rapids police at least three times during the altercation, a criminal complaint filed Friday shows.
Crime & Courts Feb. 20, 2025 5:07 pm370d ago
A man wanted on multiple warrants out of Polk County is in custody after an 11-hour standoff and shooting with Cedar Rapids police Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to a news release from the department.
Crime & Courts Feb. 14, 2025 7:49 am376d ago
She hadn’t wanted to go out, night seemed ‘off’
Crime & Courts Feb. 7, 2025 5:09 pm383d ago
One person was injured early Friday morning in a shooting in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Crime & Courts Jan. 5, 2026 10:23 am51d ago
An analysis and comparison of the shell casings and a palm print led police to one suspect in the May 2020 murder and burglaries -- Damontie Lee Haggstrom-Wells, 22, of Cedar Rapids, who was charged in 2023.
Crime & Courts Jan. 22, 2025 2:31 pm399d ago
According to search warrants filed in both cases, the Mobile Assist Team with the Cedar Rapids Police Department has been running an online operation to catch sexual predators by making false accounts on online dating apps and chat rooms where people seek dates, relationships and sex.
Crime & Courts Jan. 22, 2025 8:00 am399d ago
A judge has sentenced a Cedar Rapids man who solicited a girl he thought was 15 to three years of probation -- instead of a possible five years in prison -- for the felony.
Crime & Courts Jan. 20, 2025 1:20 pm401d ago
A New York man was arrested this month in Cedar Rapids on charges that he sent inappropriate images to a person he believed was a 14 year old girl. It was actually a Cedar Rapids police officer in an online site.

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