An Iowa health care aide has been charged with abusing a bedridden woman in her care who ultimate died this summer her mattress caught fire this summer. According to The Hawk Eye, Burlington Police charged 25-year-old Audrey Engler with intentional dependent adult abuse after investigating the woman’s death, which occurred on August 15, nearly a …
An Iowa woman has been charged with the death of her infant son, who was found head first in a trash can in January. The baby died a week later, WGEM reported. A criminal complaint says that Jaley D. Bush, 28, was visiting a friend and fell asleep on his bed on the morning of …
A Minnesota man was arrested in Iowa on Sunday, hours after he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home and gunned her down alongside her new boyfriend. The woman’s child called 911 just after 4 a.m. and said Randy Thomas Zimmerman, 45, broke into their home and shot his mom, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies …
An Iowa mother was sentenced to a decade in prison for repeatedly injecting her toddler son with insulin to make him appear sick. Alexandra Marie Frost, 26, pleaded guilty in June to to child endangerment and administering harmful substances charges, The Gazette reported, and returned to court on Friday for sentencing. In courts, she asked …
A man accused of taking a missing Iowa teen to North Carolina last weekend now faces charges in two states. John Johnson, 25, was initially arrested in Reidsville, North Carolina, after authorities found the missing 15-year-old girl there, WHO reported. She was reunited with her family and Johnson was charged with sexual exploitation of a …
An Iowa man faces multiple charges after he allegedly beat his grandfather with golf clubs, sprayed wasp killer into his wounds, and threatened to kill him. Joshua Ragan, 38, also reportedly disabled his 71-year-old grandfather’s phone so he could not call for help for about three hours, KWQC reported. When police arrived at the home …
An Iowa woman was arrested last month after a months-long investigation determined that she had purposefully injured her infant son. Court documents say Emma Ann Swanson, 22, failed to provide adequate food and health care for the child, who was diagnosed with failure to thrive at the age of 2 months, according to The Messenger. …
A 25-year-old Iowa mother was sentenced last week to 50 years in prison after she was convicted in the death of her 3-year-old son two years ago. Billie Mosier was also ordered to pay court costs and $150,000 in victim damages, KTIV reported. Mosier was arrested in November 2023, six months after the death of …
An Iowa police lieutenant has been arrested for stalking a woman and has been placed on unpaid leave while the incident is investigated. According to the criminal complaint, Justin Keller, 42, contacted the woman repeated and frequently drove by her house, KCCI reported. The complaint said that he let himself into the woman’s house on …
An Iowa man has been charged with murder two months after his girlfriend was found dead in the Iowa City home they shared. A criminal complaint says that Joshua Perry called 911 on January 6 and reported that a woman was “passed out cold” in the home, The Iowa City Gazette reported. Investigators arrived and …
The Iowa parents of a baby girl have been arrested after they failed to seek medical treatment after the infant was seriously injured. Chad Gibbs, 23, and Sarah Lembke, 22, have both been charged with child endangerment/serious injury, KTIV reported. According to court documents, Gibbs claimed he fell down the stairs while holding the baby, …
An Iowa mother was arrested on child endangerment and neglect charges after her 20-month-old son drowned in the bathtub in her apartment. West Des Moines police said the baby died on on October 31. First responders were called to the scene at about 7 p.m. and took the child to a hospital, where he was …
