April 25, 2019 | by Heather Murphy, The New York Times. September 19, 2019 | By Meredith Roemerman, The Muscatine Journal. If anyone has any information that could lead to a rest, youre asked to call either Waterloo Police at 319-291-4383 or Cedar Valley CrimeStoppers at (855) 300-8477. Now, her suspected killer is set to go on trial. MUSCATINE (AP) A hung jury has led to a mistrial in the murder trial of an Iowa woman accused in the 1992 beating death of her former boyfriend. (Staff photo/Joe Shearer). Dec. 19, 2018. It behaved itself, said Steve Rettinger, Micallas father, in a weekend interview with the Courier. Michelle Martinkos murder haunted the Cedar Rapids community for 40 years. His trial is scheduled for later this year. DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) Two sports radio hosts and a Des Moines police sergeant are teaming up for a new podcast that could help solve some unsolved cases. WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) Seven years have passed since the murder of 17-year-old Martavious Tay Tay Johnson. There was evidence that the killer put their feet up on the desk, and that they carved a piece of soap. They were last seen riding their bikes at Meyers Lake in Evansdale. Officers later located a .32 caliber revolver that was involved in the shooting. The probability of finding Burns DNA profile among unrelated individuals would be less than one out of 100 billion, according to the document. October 2, 2019 | by Jen Moulton, LittleVillageMagazine.com. The State Lab was able to make a positive identification by analyzing DNA collected from Murillos biological parents. The crunch on resources began earlier this year with the investigation into the death of JoEllen Browning. Wieneke, 22 years old at the time, was found dead by his live-in fiancee at their small, rural farmhouse. Many have called it a revolutionary new technology. The parents of a Council Bluffs man who was murdered 12 years ago have not given up hope answers may yet surface and bring a small measure of peace. The charges filed against Orr Blahnik, Shaw, Wharton, Hogan, and Hospodarsky allege that these defendants were in possession of a firearm as a drug user. Maybanks said significant costs, resources and time were saved last year because two cases didnt go to trial, but no compromises were made. According to a release from Millers office, the AGs Crime Victim Assistance Division has tapped STACS DNA to develop the system. Ted Roberts said there are several factors investigators take into consideration when they try to uncover a subjects identity. In November 2012, Farver abruptly broke up with her new boyfriend and quit her job via text messages. The lawyer for Jerry Burns, 64, and two prosecutors, in a case management hearing Monday, said evidence materials were still being shared and there were no pending motions to discuss. The emotions continued as together Jason and Shelly Carter addressed the media in the courtroom. He decided from that point on to keep on hacking, but instead of stealing services, Kava wanted to use his knowledge to serve society. There is nothing to indicate the victims in this case were in any way involved in any activity that would have caused them to be targeted in this manner, said Maj. Joe Leibold with the Waterloo Police Department. The section has added a full-time investigator this year, bringing the total to nine. The accuser, Richard L. Bates, alleged that Lazeroff molested him weekly for the entirety of 1983, when he was 11 and 12 years old. This is one of those cases where I remember where I was when I got the call, West Des Moines police Sgt. His body was found on Christmas Day. November 5, 2019 | by Mike Runge, KIMT3 News. A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that overwhelming circumstantial evidence in the case overcame the lack of a body or doubts about premeditation. But the Cedar Rapids Police Department had a busy day perhaps their busiest since they began investigating the homicide nearly four decades ago. Sioux City, nicknamed Little Chicago back then, was a center for growth and crime. They recounted their exploits at a 7 p.m. press conference, and the next mornings headline emerged right away: At last, a suspect has been arrested in the murder of Michelle Martinko. It was 27 years later that technology provided new avenues for investigators who had never given up hope of unraveling a killing that shocked and haunted the community. Printed from the Iowa Department of Corrections website on January 16, 2023 at 11:31pm.Iowa Department of Corrections website on January 16, 2023 at 11:31pm. Trial is currently scheduled for December 2, 2019, before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger. Each has since pled guilty. Those defendants Nicholas Luerkens and Tim Evans pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, a rare plea in Iowa because its an automatic life sentence without parole. Immediately, Shelly Carter, the wife of Jason Carter, leaned over a railing from the gallery to embrace her husband. Jennings was mentioned in a search warrant obtained last week by The Gazette, but Jennings only learned about the connection a few days ago after people on a Facebook group devoted to the Martinko case called or messaged her about it. The identity of the deceased is Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada of Council Bluffs, police announced in a release Monday morning. According to Count 1 of the Indictment, from at least as early as 2016 and continuing in 2017, in the Southern District of Iowa and elsewhere, Reznicek and Montoya conspired to knowingly and willfully damage and attempt to damage the property of an energy facility involved in the transmission and distribution of fuel, or another form or source of energy, in an amount exceeding or which would have exceeded $100,000, and to cause a significant interruption and impairment of a function of an energy facility. March 1, 2019 | By Associated Press / NBCNews.com. And, unprompted, King offered his own farewell. In March of this year, Wright and Wilson were both charged with being a drug user in possession of a firearm. Have a question about Government Services? Sioux City was growing in the 1880s, and with that growth came a lot of illegal activity. The murderer also left one word written on the bathroom mirrorthis. Making things even creepier, there was a mortician convention in town with many attendees staying at the Inn. We just had a whole bunch of things that happened during the same time, Droll said. Washington-Roby admitted to officers that he uses marijuana and had been doing so since a young age. Jennings is a second cousin twice removed, through her paternal great-grandparents, to Jerry Lynn Burns, 65, of Manchester, who was charged in December with fatally stabbing the 18-year-old in 1979. His lawyer previously had filed a written waiver. CEDAR RAPIDS On the 40th anniversary this month of Michelle Martinkos death, family and friends gathered at her grave to mourn her. Elizabeth, 8, and Lyric, 10, were cousins. But another person, an employee who worked security for the company Kava hacked for free internet, gave him another kind of talk. CEDAR RAPIDS The trial for a Manchester man accused of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in 1979 likely will be postponed because the defense may need additional technical information and expert witnesses to prepare for the trial. There are still several agencies that are actively working this case the Evansdale Police Department, the Black Hawk County and Bremer County sheriffs offices, and the FBI and we get together regularly to review information and evidence and evaluate new information, he said. Contact Us. The trial will test prosecutors ability to get a conviction in a case in which they have no physical evidence against Annette Cahill. Theyre honoring Lyric and Elizabeth two lives gone too soon. Instead, a jury wont gather to determine the fate of 65-year-old Jerry Burns until Feb. 10, if not later, Burns attorney, Leon Spies, confirmed Monday. She had gone Dec. 19, 1979, to the newly opened Westdale Mall to buy a winter coat and vanished. May 3, 2019 | by Alia Conley, World-Herald staff writer. What was the reason what was the purpose. MASON CITY, Iowa John Vansice, a longtime person of interest in the Jodi Huisentruit case, has an aggressive health issue that could prevent him from contributing any further in the case. The 27-year-old real estate agent was gunned down while holding an open house at a West Des Moines townhome. The shooting happened on the 500 block of Sumner Street in Waterloo. Iowa will launch a sexual assault evidence kit tracking and reporting system in 2020 according to Attorney General Tom Millers office. In 2017, Shanna Golyar was sentenced to life in prison for killing Cari Farver because she was dating her ex-boyfriend and using a web of social media lies to pretend she was still alive. The unresponsive male was taken to a nearby hospital. Attorneys for Jason Carter, the Marion County man found civilly responsible for his mothers death days before he was charged with murder, claim prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence and violated his right to due process. MAQUOKETA, Iowa Jurors on Wednesday found a Dubuque man guilty of second-degree murder for killing a Bellevue resident. The facts of the case were recounted. They are working closely with authorities at the state and federal level, including the FBI. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette). Taxpayers who had to make adjustments for Iowa's nonconformity to federal law in 2018 and 2019 may need to complete form IA 101 in 2020 and later years. Death is one of lifes few certainties. Fernaris Braggs, age 31, Andrew Shaw, age 31, Jontreyvius Richmond, age 21, Darnell Henderson, age 23, Mathew John Wharton, age 28, Zachary Francis Hogan, age 28, Paul Hoff, age 40, Untario McGhee, age 18, all of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Clint Hospodarksy, age 44, of Iowa City, Iowa; Randolph High, age 62, of Stanwood, Iowa; Justin Allen Bryce Gulian, age 28, of Clarksville, Iowa; Richard Dale Olge II, age 30, of Cresco, Iowa; Gilbert Lopez, Jr., age 33, of West Union, Iowa; Edinton Grugbay Wright, age 22, of Marion, Iowa; and Brett Scott Meana, age 43, of Peosta, Iowa, have all been charged with various violations of federal law including being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. June 9, 2019 | by Tara Becker-Gray and Bill Lukitsch, Quad-City Times. While he and his father were scrutinized by law enforcement, a civil suit was brought first against Jason Carter by his father Bill Carter. At the five year anniversary of Johnsons death, police told KWWL they had possible suspects but were waiting on the right piece of information that could lead to an arrest. The dead cannot speak for themselves, but investigators either law enforcement or medical examiners can sift through records for answers. The pair competed on the online reality show Fireball Run Season 11: Big Country to raise awareness about Erin Kay Pospisil of Cedar Rapids, who went missing in 2001 at the age of 15. Law enforcement agencies across the state continue to make communities safer by partnering to reduce gun related crimes and violence. Experts believe the technique could be used to revive investigations into a vast number of cases that have gone cold across the country, including at least 100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies. When it did, he simply entered a new, phony credit card number to keep the scam going. November 15, 2019 | The Tama News-Herald/The Toledo Chronicle. The filing said that the three did reveal and discharge a firearm while committing the robbery, leading to the death of Booher. On Thursday, a deceased man or woman was found inside the former site of No Frills on West Broadway in Council Bluffs. Its one of the 19 of the strangest unsolved mysteries of all time. The case went cold until 2017. He was declared missing two days later. Iowa grandmother faces murder trial in case built largely on testimony by child: The prosecution is expected to argue that the woman, now 56, used to be part of a hard-partying group in her small town. CEDAR RAPIDS A Vancouver, Wash., woman, trying to find out more about her fathers side of the family, never expected that her DNA would help catch an Iowa man accused of killing Michelle Martinko 40 years ago. Thank you in advance! Parabon-NanoLabs in Reston, Va., told investigators about GEDMatch, a public DNA database used to help research family trees. They will be making five stops in the area. On April 29, 2019, investigators executed a search warrant at Burkhows residence in Cedar Rapids and located fourteen guns, eight silencers, thousands of rounds of ammunition, a money counting machine, cash, and cocaine. Burkhow admitted to investigators that he uses controlled substances. Search warrants unsealed last week show the efforts of Cedar Rapids investigators to make an arrest in the 1979 fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, which included taking buccal swabs from dozens of individuals. The Department of Justice is remaining vigilant in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting wrongdoing related to the crisis. The warrants also better explain how a Virginia-based genetics lab and the DNA of a woman in Vancouver, Washington, helped detectives identify the Manchester man they say killed the high school student decades ago when he was 25: Jerry Lynn Burns. The Crime Victim Assistance Division received a nearly $800,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, to develop and start the system. Police and the Iowa DCI are continuing to investigate an Iowa cold case out of Franklin County. Ryan Avis, Investigator Jim Doty and Special Deputy Anthony Kava of the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office to join forces in April 2015. Wieneke and Cahill had a sexual relationship, according to the criminal complaint, and the two allegedly argued about his involvement with another woman the morning he was killed. June 3, 2019 | By Trish Mehaffey, The Gazette. Browning, 65, was found stabbed to death early April 5 in her Iowa City home. She had been stabbed to death. Walker, a father of four was killed during an attempted robbery. Someone just doesnt disappear like that, Doty said. Also, on April 5, of this year, Washington-Roby was in a vehicle involved in a shots-fired investigation. There are remains to be handled, next of kin to be contacted, services to be arranged, an obituary to write and, in most cases, a burial or ceremony to hold. Look into a former newspaper employee named Jack J. Lazeroff, the readers said. Jason Carter was sued by his father, Bill Carter, and his brother, Billy Dean Carter, after no one was charged in her death. Walkers mother, Ann Davis, says no arrests have been made in regards to his mother. A conviction on the first-degree charge triggers an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole, while second-degree murder carries a 50-year prison term, with eligibility for parole after 35 years. 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