Teresa Gerleman

Woman with reported info on kidnap, murder of young Iowa girls kills herself and son

 Woman with reported info on kidnap, murder of young Iowa girls kills herself and son
Violent Crime

An Iowa woman who killed herself and her young son in May reportedly had information about the disappearance of two girls years earlier, the Des Moines Register reports. Teresa Catherine Gerleman, 36, pulled herself and her 8-year-old son, Henry Fields, in front of a train last month. But before doing that, she claimed to have information …

Mom drags young son onto train tracks in grisly murder-suicide: Police
Murder
May 23, 2018

Mom drags young son onto train tracks in grisly murder-suicide: Police

An Iowa mother allegedly pulled her 8-year-old son into the path of an oncoming train in what police have deemed a murder-suicide. KCCI reported that Teresa Gerleman, 35, and Henry Fields, 8, were fatally struck at a crossing in Belle Plaine at 5 a.m. on May 4. Interviews and footage captured by Union Pacific Railroad led officials to determine that …