Human remains found in an Iowa farmer’s field in Poweshiek County last month are those of an 11-year-old boy who vanished in May. Xavior Harrelson was last seen on May 27 when he rode away from a Montezuma mobile home park where he was a caretaker for his mother, who is an amputee. Police said …
An Iowa teen has been charged with murder in the deaths of his parents Thursday morning. Cedar Rapids police said they responded to a call in the northeast section of the city at about 2 a.m. and found Ethan Orton, 17, sitting outside, covered in blood, KCRG reported. Police said Orton told them he stabbed …
An Iowa man has been charged with murder in the death of his six-month-old son who was found unresponsive in an Iowa Falls apartment in March. In addition to first-degree murder, Nicholas Edward Cox, 22, also faces a charge of child endangerment causing death, the Times Citizen reported. Iowa Falls Police said they were called …
An Iowa woman already sentenced to 25 year for intentionally running over a 14-year-old Latina girl and a 12-year-old Black boy with her SUV was sentenced Thursday to the same amount on federal hate crimes charges stemming from the incidents. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, was given two concurrent 25 year sentences in May after pleading …
Iowa police are looking for a 13-year-old girl they say has PTSD and occasionally has psychotic episodes. Callista Ryan was last seen at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning in south Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. Ryan is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and about 107 pounds. She has a Ying Yang …
An 11-year-old Iowa boy died Sunday from injuries he suffered a day earlier when a popular boat ride at an amusement park malfunction just a day after it passed a state inspection and opened for the first time this season. Michael Jaramillo and three other people, including at least one other minor, were injured when …
An Iowa man has been charged with three counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of his mother, father, and sister. Police responded to the northeastern Cedar Rapids home of Jan Perry Jackson, 61, and Melissa Ferne Jackson at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when they were called there by 20-year-old Alexander Ken Jackson. …
Authorities in Iowa have asked the public for tips in the ongoing disappearance of an 11-year-old boy who vanished on May 27. Xavior Harrelson was reportedly last seen on his bike near a Montezuma mobile home park where he lives with his mother. While Harrelson is considered endangered, Division of Criminal Investigation director Mitch Mortvedt …
The second day of Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s trial for the murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts focused on surveillance video that allegedly shows Bahena Rivera’s black Chevrolet Malibu several times in the are where Tibbetts was last seen. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent Derek Riessen described the painstaking work looking over the …
Neighbors said they believed the teen was 11 due to his size. The victim reportedly had bone deformities in his foot which were possibly caused by wearing a shoe that was too small for an extended amount of time.
A nurse and a correctional officer were killed this week during a failed escape attempt from Iowa’s Anamosa State Penitentiary. Nurse Lorena Schulte, 50, and Officer Robert McFarland, 46, both died of blunt force trauma when they attacked with hammers by inmates Michael Dutcher, 28, and Thomas Woodard, 39. Dutcher and Woodard also briefly kidnapped …
A Colorado man was arrested in Iowa this week after a gun store refused to sell him a semi-automatic rifled when he told staff he was surprised his friends didn’t think he was the shooter at a Boulder supermarket on Monday. Employees at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Ankeny, Iowa, called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, …
