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Death of Mollie Tibbetts
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El testimonio del viernes sobre la muerte de Mollie Tibbetts tuvo a Tara Scott, una criminalista de Iowa DCI y Pamela Romero, una exoficial de policía de Iowa City.
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From cold cases, to recent disappearances: How Iowa maintains their database of missing persons
Iowa is only one of a handful of states that make public their database of missing persons in a wide variety of categories.
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Bill would create a cold case task force in Iowa
Local 5 breaks down what a cold case investigation unit could look like if implemented within the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
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Judge finds western Iowa man guilty in grandmother's slaying
Eliot Stowe, 22, was found guilty for beating his grandmother Cheryl Stowe to death in her rural home in Castana in June, 2018.
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