An Indiana man, accused of posing as a woman to lure an Iowa City man to his death in 2021, received another delay in his murder trial. This is the tenth delay for Renard Winfield, charged with first-degree murder.
A Marion man has pleaded not guilty to bludgeoning to death four people with a metal pipe two weeks ago. He also plans to demand a speedy trial at his arraignment set for next week.
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.
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.
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.
A Marion man is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in fatal pipe attack Wednesday in an outbuilding on a Marion property. He is being held on a $4 million cash-only bail pending trial.
An Illinois man who fatally shot a Fareway employee outside the store in Monicello last year pleaded to first-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A judge won’t lower or increase the $1 million bail for a Shellsburg man charged with helping a wife kill her husband in 2021.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder after he fatally assaulted his 71-year-old mother in 2020.
Shellsburg man accused of helping Traer woman kill her husband in 2021 asked a judge Thursday to lower his $1 million bail because it’s unreasonable. Prosecutor wants it hiked up to $5 million because he believes Danker has access to “large sum of cash.”
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks says prosecutors will file about 25 percent fewer felonies in fiscal year 2024, which is the first time violent crimes have declined since post-pandemic spikes. He noted the office also successfully prosecuted eight homicides in the first four months of the year.
A Marion woman, crying throughout her victim impact statement Friday in Linn County District Court, says she still waits for her 17-year-old son to come home even though she knows he was fatally shot May 10, 2023. Her only son, she said, should be graduating from high school this Sunday.
Samantha Bevans showed no visible reaction when she heard the jury’s verdict, convicting her of first-degree murder for suffocating her stepmom, Jodie Bevans, in July 2022. She faces a life sentence without parole.
Samantha Bevans, accused of suffocating her stepmom in 2022, took the stand Thursday in her defense and denied taking part in the killing of Jodie Bevans, 58, of Palo. She blamed the slaying on her boyfriend, who was convicted of first-degree murder last year. But a rebuttal witness said Bevans demonstrated how she put the pillow over her stepmother’s face and used her foot to apply pressure.
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