Articles Tagged: Missing Persons

Jerome “Jerry” Lepperd -- who police were looking for after the Iowa-Oregon game Saturday, has been found and is safe.

A missing 38-year-old Cedar Rapids man was found dead in or near the edge of the Cedar River on Wednesday night, police said. His family reported him missing on Saturday. Police said his death is under investigation but isn’t considered suspicious.

A 15-year-old Cedar Rapids girl vanished in 2001, leaving police with little or no clues as to whether she ran away or was abducted. The last person to see her was convicted in another cold case murder last year, but police don’t have any evidence that he was involved in the teen’s disappearance.

The body of a man reported missing two weeks ago in the Iowa City area was found over the weekend in the Iowa River, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

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?

Jodie Beth Thomas, 83, was last seen on Dec. 13.

Lawyers for a former Decorah man accused in her death are seeking details on the tip.

Officials haven’t said how the teen died — or whether they’ve found her body.

Iowa newscaster was abducted June 27, 1995, from outside her Mason City apartment complex.

The service came 16 days after David Schultz' body was found in rural Sac County, near where his red Peterbilt semitractor-trailer loaded with hogs was discovered abandoned Nov. 21, 2023.

David Schultz, 53, was found dead April 24 in a field in rural Sac County, not far from where his semitrailer truck was found abandoned more than five months earlier. Preliminary autopsy results from the State Medical Examiner’s Office indicated "no signs of trauma or serious injury," and authorities said they do not suspect foul play.

A spokesman for David Schultz's family said they plan to have a private forensic pathology firm conduct a second autopsy on the Wall Lake trucker's body after it was found five months after Schultz went missing.

A Benton County teen who has been missing since Mar. 31 was likely found dead Tuesday in a crashed car.

Coroner Dan Heavin had the body exhumed in October and turned to anthropology students and faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, a news release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said.

A 12-year-old who had been missing for a couple weeks in Iowa City has been found, according to a Wednesday news release from the Iowa City Police Department.