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, …
Six employees died at the plant that had the coronavirus ‘betting pool’
The suspect not only admitted to drinking and watching a movie, but he also said he had the cruise control on an depended too much on the vehicle’s lane assist feature
The University of Iowa student was reportedly unable to reenter his dorm as temperatures bottomed out at -50 degrees
An Arizona woman and her stepfather, missing since mid-April, were found dead last month inside her SUV, which had been buried on an undeveloped lot down a dead-end road in central Iowa. And now police believe Elissa Landry’s boyfriend, Mitchell Mincks, and his father, Thomas “Tommy” Tucker, buried the vehicle, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. …
Iowa police arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday after he admitted to “slamming” a 7-month-old child into a crib. According to the Des Moines Register, the child was admitted to Blank Children’s Hospital on Thursday with a leg and skull fracture. Hospital staff alerted the West Des Moines police to a possible child abuse case because …
A former long-haul trucker suspected of killing at least three women in Wyoming and Tennessee nearly 30 years ago made his first court appearance Thursday in Iowa, where he waived extradition. Clark Perry Baldwin, 58, told the court an Iowa investigator spoke with him after his arrest and asked about a local case, according to …
A body discovered in a river Saturday is that of an Iowa teen who vanished in January after leaving his job. The Des Moines Police Department revealed Monday that a kayaker discovered Abdullahi Sharif’s body in the Des Moines River at Prospect Park. Sharif, 18, was reportedly submerged near the river’s north bank, prompting the …
