Almost six months after law enforcement publicly named the parents of a baby who was found dead on a farm near Lisbon in 1996, no new information has been found and the case appears to be cold once again.
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Almost six months after law enforcement publicly named the parents of a baby who was found dead on a farm near Lisbon in 1996, no new information has been found and the case appears to be cold once again.
The sister of Josh Wellman, 35, of Cedar Rapids, makes a plea for any information - ‘any clue’ - of where to find her brother’s body.
Family members of Jodie Bevans, 58, of Palo, who was killed in 2022, gave heartfelt victim statements during Samantha Bevans’ sentencing on a first-degree murder charge Friday in Benton County District Court in Vinton. Samantha Bevans and her boyfriend, also convicted, suffocated Jodie Bevans with a pillow. Both have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors filed an application for a subpoena in the rural Linn County quadruple murders, seeking information on three bank accounts, including any video of who made deposits. Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks declined to provide any context for the request.
A Riverside woman was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that she produced and distributed child sexual assault material of two minor victims.
The trial for a Tama woman accused of fatally shooting husband in the face remains on track for July 9 in Linn County. A judge moved the trial out of Tama County as requested by defense. Prosecution didn’t resist.
An Iowa City man who worked as a paraeducator at West High for three months was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee.
A southeast Iowa man is facing charges in Linn County of attempting to entice a minor through an online dating site.
Linn County officials are searching for a 17-year-old who escaped from the Linn County Juvenile Detention Center Wednesday evening, according to a news release from the detention center.
Edwin Junech-Pastor, 36, of Decorah, entered a plea Monday to one count of illegal re-entry in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. Other charges of misuse of a Social Security number and unlawful use of an identification document likely will be dismissed.
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
An owner of a commercial dog breeding farm pleads to five charges of animal neglect and received a year of probation. He surrendered 131 dogs last year.
Law enforcement agencies in Linn County are working together this week to check in with every registered sex offender in the county and ensure compliance with sex offender registry requirements.
A friend of one of the women killed last week near Marion says the woman and her boyfriend, also killed, had been evicted from their residence last year and had been living in the outbuilding where they were bludgeoned with a metal pipe. She didn’t know of any connection they had with the accused killer.
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