A Marion police investigator testified Thursday the Hiawatha man charged with killing Melody Hoffman in February had a torture photo in his phone. It shows the woman with a bloody nose, duct tape over her mouth and she appears to be crying.
Marion police investigators testify about traffic camers and cell tower locations used to track Hiawath man and his co-conspirator accused of kidnapping and killing Marion woman on in February.
The mother of a 20-year-old Marion woman who was kidnapped and killed on Feb. 17 testified Tuesday she always tracked her daughter’s phone and other electronics because Melody Hoffman had an intellectual disability that made it more difficult for her to understand social situations because she was trusting of everybody.
A Decorah farmer is accused of stealing enough corn and soybeans to fill nearly 25 semi-trailer trucks, worth over an estimated $175,000, and shielding the income from an ongoing bankruptcy case, Winneshiek County authorities say.
A juvenile who made an online threat against Taft Middle School Monday could face charges, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
The murder trial for McKinley Louisma, accused of kidnapping and killing Melody Hoffman, 20, of Marion, started Monday in Linn County. The prosecutor told the jury her slaying was “depraved and dehumanizing.”
A federal judge on Friday heard arguments and pledged a quick ruling in a lawsuit over Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s directive that poll workers challenge the ballots of 2,176 legal residents whose citizenship status is unclear to his office.
U.S. Marshals of the Northern District of Iowa participated with 21 other states in Operation Trick or Treat to arrest non-compliant and fugitive sex offenders. During the Iowa operations, they conducted 61 compliance checks and arrested 6 people. Overall, the national operation netted 331 arrests.
The owner of an Iowa City venue has been charged with disorderly house after two women were stabbed and a fight broke out there Sunday.
A Marion father strangled to death his 5 year-old son after staying up most of the night contemplating how he would kill him. One way was using knives, which police found during a search of the home.
First responders were called to a Marion address at 6 a.m. Tuesday for a report of an unresponsive child.
An Iowa City woman and her teenage daughter were arrested this weekend after police say the teen stabbed a gas station employee who owed her money.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he lit an air conditioning unit on fire in the alleyway behind a downtown Iowa City bar.
An Iowa City woman was arrested Monday on charges that she stabbed two people, one of whom is pregnant, in a downtown club early Sunday morning.
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