An Iowa man who cut off his GPS monitor and disappeared just before a jury pronounced him guilty of murder was found and rearrested after 20 hours on the run. Gregory Showalter Sr., 63, was charged with strangling his 60-year-old wife, Helen, on July 31, 2021, and dumping her body in or near the Des …
An Iowa teen who pleaded guilty to beating his Spanish teacher to death over a bad grade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with a 35 year minimum. Judge Shawn Showers told now-18-year-old Willard Miller during the sentencing hearing that he is “fortunate” that state law doesn’t permit juveniles to be sentenced to life …
An Iowa woman reported missing in March has been found dead in the yard of a home about a half mile from where she was last seen nearly two months ago. Jeanette Marie Bear, 30, was last seen on March 14 in Des Moines and reported missing two days later. Police said she had been …
An Iowa mom-to-be caught a toddler when he fell from a second story window in Des Moins. “I noticed the little boy was bending over the edge of the window, and he was throwing things out the window,” Kyrie Jones, who lives next door and was walking her dog, told KCCI. First, she said, she …
One of two Iowa teens charged with murder in the death of a Fairfield Spanish teacher has agreed to testify against his co-defendant. Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller are both charged with first degree murder for the beating death of Nohema Graber in November 2021, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Prosecutors have suggested they killed the …
An Iowa grandfather and mother have been charged with murder in the death of her newborn boy, whose body was found in a plastic bag in a ditch outside the city of Norwalk. According to court documents, Megan Staude, 25, reportedly confessed on Monday that she gave birth on February 24, put the infant in …
A 19-year-old Iowa woman was charged earlier this month with scamming nearly $40,000 with false claims that she had cancer. The Eldridge Police Department said Madison Russo claimed to have acute lymphoblastic leukemia, stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and a football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine as she solicited more than $37,000 from 439 donors, according …
An Iowa couple have been charged with murder in the drowning death of their newborn daughter shortly after the mother gave birth in their apartment bathroom. Brandon Thoma, 31, and Taylor Blaha, 24, have been charged with first-degree murder in the baby’s death, WHO reports. Thomas has an additional charge of abuse of a corpse. …
An Iowa teen who was sentenced in September to probation for killing her accused rapist in 2020 has reportedly fled from a residential corrections facility. According to the Des Moines Register, Pieper Lewis, 18, was seen leaving Fresh Start Women’s Center on Friday after someone opened a door that activated an alarm. Lewis allegedly cut …
A 56-year-old Iowa man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife at her dog kennel business over the weekend. Angela Prichard, 55, was found dead on Saturday, and Christopher Eugene Prichard was arrested the following morning on warrants for violating a protective order, the Iowa Department of Public Safety …
A former Iowa county jail employee has been charged with sexual misconduct after an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation probe into the matter. KCRG said that the agency launched its investigation when a county employee complained of possible sexual misconduct and completed it in March. The state attorney general took over at that point, reviewing …
The 9-year-old boy sole survivor of an attack on his family at an Iowa state park ran to a nearby campsite for help — the campsite of the man police believe shot and killed the boy’s parents and younger sister. Tyler and Sarah Schmidt and their 6-year-old daughter Lula were killed in the shooting, early …
