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Tag Archives: Unsolved Iowa Murders
After Church: Murders of Lena and Tommy Peterson 1902
Murder Victims Mary Magdalene “Lena” Peterson 1886-1902 15-year-old High School Student Thomas Hoffman “Tommy” Peterson 13-year-old Grammar School Student 1888-1902 Cause of Deaths: Bludgeoned Motive: Family Jealousy Murder Scene and Date Madison Avenue Highland Park, Iowa Lee Township Polk County … Continue reading
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Long ago in Iowa, a man walked through shadowy woods and stopped. Was he going somewhere or was he coming back? Was something unspeakable about to happen to him? Or was he contemplating a horrific act? Was he searching … Continue reading
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Tagged Cases of Unsolved murders in Iowa, Cold Iowa murders, David Jindrich, Historical Unsolved Iowa murders, Iowa Cold Murders, Iowa Unsolved Murders: Historic Cases, Murders in Iowa, Nancy Bowers, Unsolved Homicides in Iowa, Unsolved Iowa Homicides, Unsolved Iowa Murders, Unsolved Iowa murders gone cold, Unsolved Murders in Iowa
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The Murders
To read about defenseless victims, heartless killers, and unfathomable motives associated with historical Iowa unsolved murders, click on the complete list of cases or on an historic period below. All articles in each time span were researched and written by … Continue reading
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Tagged "Apple Grove John Doe", "Joplin Red" West, Addis Lyman, Alexander McArthur, and Mary Hardy, Andrew M. Brown, Ashley Downing, Belle Sutliff, Chester N. Van Horn, Clara Gray, Cold Iowa murders, David Faulkner, Deborah Simmons, Earl, Elmer Anderson, Elmer Dudrey, Elmer Penderson, Esther Alger, Fred P. Widmann, George Sulzberger, Harry Salisbury, Henry Stephens, Iowa Unsolved Murders, Iowa's Unsolved Murders, James, Jeremiah Zollinger, John "Joplin Red" West, John Allen, John Murphy, Josiah Pratt, Lena and Martin Schultz, Lena and Tommy Peterson, Leonard DeLong, Lillian Chapman, Louis Friedman, Lovina Kneeskern, Ma-Cha-Che, Maud Straw, Maude Lambert, Meadow, Nathaniel Carnagy, Price V. Evans, Ramona Jean Cox, Richard Huggins, Robert W. Stubbs, Sarah Tracy, Unsolved Iowa Murders, Villisca Axe Murders, Walter D. Schenck, William A. Hunt, William Clugston, William Mullikin
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Death Going West: Murder of Apple Grove John Doe 1866
Murder Victim “Apple Grove John Doe” Stephen D. Cooper Stonemason, US Cavalry Veteran 1828-1866 Cause of Death: Struck with Axe Motive: Argument Murder Scene and Date Apple Grove, Beaver Township Polk County, Iowa Late April, 1866 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By Nancy Bowers … Continue reading
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Tagged "Apple Grove John Doe", 5th Illinois Cavalry, Benjamin Pearson, Camp Creek Polk County Iowa, Death Going West: 1866, Hannah Stiles Cooper, Iowa Unsolved Murders, Lambert Sternberg, Polk County Iowa Unsolved murders, Stephen D. Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Unsolved Iowa Murders, William C. Humphrey
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