Iowa Cold Cases

2024 preview of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week at DMACC – The Campus Chronicle campuschroniclenews.com/2024…

Upcoming Physical Server Move to New Facility iowacoldcases.org/2022/11/up…

Charity Event Planned to Raise Funds for Harry Milligan Search, Reward iowacoldcases.org/2022/07/ch…

DNA evidence confirmed a human foot found at Lake West belonged to 52-yr-old Steven Leasure, who went missing in May 2015. No other trace of him has been found. Anyone with any information about Steven Leasure’s... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

Nine days after this beautiful mother of four disappeared, her car was found at the Des Moines Municipal Airport, unlocked, keys in the ignition switch; in the trunk, “wedged in to one side of the spare tire,” her... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

"Just let it go" - I hear it. We all hear it, we who've lost a loved one to some killer who walks free among us. If it were cancer or a car wreck, we'd move on. But knowing our loved one was STOLEN from us, often... facebook.com/iowacoldcases/p…

"Just let it go," but cold case families cannot: --------------------------------------------------------- "My Grandfather was left for dead in an abandoned farm abt 12/22/1967, in the 3400 block of Newell st, in... facebook.com/iowacoldcases/p…

"I know you won't turn yourself in, but I hope that you find a heart. As you can see there's a lot of people hurt behind it. You all took his life, took him from us. Took... kcrg.com/content/news/Family…

“I cry most every day because my son’s life was taken and the person who did this to him has not been caught, and I feel if he did this to my son he would do this to someone else,”Six years after Dexter "Big Ham"... facebook.com/iowacoldcases/p…

“You can’t hide. You might as well give yourself up. If you were man enough to pull that trigger, be man enough to face what you’ve got to face.” - Irene Lucky, addressing the killer of her grandson. Dexter Lashun Meeks,... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

Waterloo police seek public's help in Highway 218 shooting thegazette.com/subject/news/…

$6,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest. Anyone with information about the case should contact Waterloo police or Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers at 855-300-TIPS (8477).... kcrr.com/update-police-relea…

Dillon Luna died of smoke inhalation on April 30, 1992, after an arsonist started a fire in the living room — the same room where the infant’s body was found. Six people were home at the time. The house burned to the... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

Vietnam veteran John Lee Erickson, 48, father of four, was shot in the head near Mondamin April 30, 1997, and dumped in a ditch off I-29 south of Onawa in Monona County--one week before his 49th birthday. Contact the... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

Readers have told us Anthony Murano shot Tyrese Parsons, and Alden Turner, 18, hid the gun for him. Turner faces attempted murder charges after police say he shot a 17-year-old at a house party in the 3200 block of East 41st Street on March 16.... via.whotv.com/GqlBO

"Everyone's been saying Anthony did it & to be honest he's the one that always is playing with guns the most," someone commented April 29, 2019 at iowacoldcases.org/2018/08/ty…. "Anthony Murano... iowacoldcases.org/2018/08/ty…

"Sadly, Edward Leeney’s case resembles far too many deemed cold cases even in recent decades; officials may feel certain they know who committed the crime, but for whatever reason have never filed charges," Jody Ewing... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…

Person of interest in Huisentruit case says he has Alzheimer’s disease kjan.com/index.php/2019/04/p…

Was the intended target or just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Reginald Renard Bryan Jr., 23, was in Des Moines to celebrate a friend’s graduation. He was killed April 28, 2013, outside Big Earl’s Gold Mine when... iowacoldcases.org/case-summa…