Articles Tagged: Murder

A Cedar Rapids woman who claimed self-defense in fatal stabbing of boyfriend was found guilty of lesser charge last week. She faces 5 years for involuntary manslaughter.

Lawyers for a Manchester man who was convicted of killing Michelle Martinko in 1979 argued Friday during his appeal that his conviction should be overturned because police didn’t have a warrant when it retrieved his DNA from a straw in the trash.

A domestic violence consultant testified Tuesday that Jacqueline Holmes of Cedar Rapids, on trial for fatally stabbing her boyfriend, was a battered woman.

The girlfriend of a Cedar Rapids man fatally stabbed in 2020, during a police interview, changed her story numerous times of what happened and how her boyfriend was injured.

A prosecutor said Thursday a Cedar Rapids woman wouldn’t give vital information to a 911 dispatcher after she fatally stabbed a man in Cedar Rapids in 2020. The defense said she was a victim or abuse and was defending herself.

A Chicago pharmacologist, testifying for the defense, said Tuesday that a Marion woman died from the high level of meth in her system, instead of the 26 stabbing injuries that an autopsy stated was her cause of death.

A forensic psychiatrist testified Monday that a Marion man couldn’t distinguish right from wrong when he killed his ex-girlfriend in 2017 and that he was suffering from meth-induced psychosis when he stabbed her 26 times.

Mother of Marion man on trial for murder says she suspected he killed his girlfriend and concealed it in a roll of carpet after seeing it on a trailer in her driveway.

Prosecutor says a Marion woman was killed in “vicious attack and calculated cover-up” by her ex-boyfriend. He stabbed her 26 times and then concealed her body in a roll of carpet in 2017. This is his second murder trial. His conviction in 2018 was overturned.

Arthur Flowers, 62, is charged with killing a woman by beating her with a board in April. A judge ruled he is incompetent to stand trial, putting his case on hold.

A Coralville man was finally returned to Iowa on a governor’s warrant and was charged Saturday with first-degree murder and other charges in the Taboo shooting.

A Marion man, who had his conviction overturned on appeal, waived a jury trial for his retrial that starts Sept. 13 in Linn County District Court. He will claim insanity or diminished capacity.

The newest trial date for 16-year-old Willard Miller is March 2023

Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, was charged Tuesday for assaulting a drug informant in jail in an attempt to prevent him from testifying against a drug dealer.

They hope for closure, justice in federal trial starting Monday