A Marion man who is charged with killing four people with a metal pipe in June told law enforcement that “he felt better after this and the pain in his head was no longer there,” according to an unsealed search warrant. Detectives found him sitting on a sidewalk near the crime scene when they arrived.
Trial for Andrew Shaw, accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018, has been bumped to Feb. 4. The trial was previously set for Nov. 5. Defense said it needed more time to prepare for trial.
The unsolved murder of Willie Brocks, who was fatally shot in November 1999 has come full circle for a Cedar Rapids investigator who responded to the crime scene as a rookie and now has been actively following up on the case. He has a person of interest who may be able to identify the shooter.
One of the Fairfield teens convicted of killing their Spanish teacher is asking the Iowa Supreme Court to resentence him without a mandatory minimum of his life sentence. He argues its cruel and unusual punishment.
A grieving mother told a woman who helped plan the robbery of her son and then helped his shooter after the crime was someone the family had trusted and had considered a friend .
A Marshalltown man was arrested over the weekend on charges that he intentionally hit and killed a Tama man with his car.
Also, man who killed Algona police officer sentenced to life in prison
A Marion man who was arrested in June on charges that he bludgeoned four people to death with a metal pipe has been cleared to stand trial after being evaluated by a psychologist.
A Winneshiek County complaint, made public Tuesday, sheds a little more light on a 2017 homicide of a teen in Decorah, but doesn’t explain how a Georgia man killed her or if authorities have recovered a body. The suspect, who lived near Decorah in 2017, was charged with second-degree murder.
A Georgia man was charged Monday in a homicide of a 15-year-old girl who went missing from his rural Winneshiek farm in 2017.
A judge lowered bail from $500,000 to $100,000 for a Cedar Rapids woman charged with fatally stabbing the father of two of her children in January. If released, she must wear an ankle monitor and be under the supervision of 6th Judicial Department of Correctional Services pending trial set for Dec. 10.
Iowa offenders who cause a death must pay $150,000 in restitution, according to a law enacted in 1997, but some Eastern Iowa victims say it’s not a priority to help them. They realize the offenders are spending life in prison, in most cases, and doubt they will receive much of it.
A judge finds there is probable cause that Luke Truesdell, who is accused of blugeoning 4 people to death with a metal pipe, is not competent to stand trial. She ordered him to undergo a mental evaluation at state forensic psychiatric hospital in Coralville.
Luke Truesdell, accused of bludgeoning 4 people with a mental pipe, may have a mental disorder and lawyers are asking the court for mental evaluation. If granted, proceedings in the case would be temporarily delayed until the evaluation is completed and any restoration is needed.
Tramontez Lockett, 18, had messaged and arranged for Michael McCune, 16, to meet Feb. 18, 2023, at the Tan Tara Apartments in Cedar Rapids. McCune didn’t know Lockett had planned with three others to fatally shoot him that night because of past conflicts.
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