Articles Tagged: Murder

Judge delays trial by two weeks for Marion who beat four people to death with metal pipe. Trial reset to Sept. 10. Prosecutors had scheduling conflict.

A prosecutor said the prosecution was unable to provide a confession made by Curtis Padgett, who killed his friend, Dennis First, in 2007, to a witness because the witness died three months before trial. Padgett was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.

A mother, in her victim impact statement, said losing her son to gun violence is a “‘pain no parent should have to endure.” Cameron Barnes was fatally shot on St. Patrick’s Day last year by Duval Walker Jr. in a Marion bar.

The trials for two of the three people accused of murdering a Cedar Rapids man in Missouri have been scheduled for next year, and the third trial has yet to be scheduled.

A North Liberty woman has been charged with second-degree murder after law enforcement found her ex-partner’s body in a crashed car in Minnesota over the weekend.

Luke Truesdell, accused of beating to death four people with a metal pipe, will stand trial Sept. 3 in Linn County. An online fundraiser has also been started for one of the male victims.

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.