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Anna Sharma, 41, was fatally stabbed by her ex-husband BK Sitoula, 42, who unlawfully entered her home in Ankeny, Iowa. Sitoula then attempted suicide and later died from self-inflicted injuries. Police do not anticipate filing …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder-Suicide | Date: March 14, 2026
View DetailsOn January 16, 2026, Amber Nicole Martin, age 41, was fatally stabbed in her home in Coralville, Iowa. Her husband, James Fuller Martin, age 47 and recently employed as an assistant lab manager, was arrested …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: Jan. 16, 2026
View DetailsSharon Jellue, 30, was found dead in her Ankeny apartment with apparent stab wounds. Johnson Chayee Browne, 32, her long-time live-in partner, was charged with her murder. Browne was already in custody on unrelated charges …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: Jan. 5, 2026
View DetailsMelody Hoffman, a 20-year-old woman with a mild intellectual disability, was murdered after trusting her boyfriend McKinley Luisma and his accomplices. Luisma, along with Dakota Van Patten and Logan Kimpton, conspired to kill Melody. She …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Feb. 17, 2024
View DetailsOn October 8, 2022, 55-year-old Angela Marie Pritchard was shot and killed inside her pet boarding business, Mississippi Ridge Kennels, in Bellevue, Iowa. Her estranged husband, Christopher Eugene Pritchard, had engaged in a escalating pattern …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: Oct. 8, 2022
View DetailsRyan Cooper was found shot twice in the face while sleeping in his recliner at home in Treyer, Iowa, on June 18, 2021. His wife, Karina Cooper, called 911 hysterically claiming an intruder had killed …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: June 18, 2021
View DetailsAmy Mullis, 39, died on November 10, 2018, after sustaining six penetrating wounds from a four-tine corn planter in a red barn on the family farm near Earlville, Iowa. Her husband, Todd Mullis, reported that …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Nov. 10, 2018
View DetailsTang Shao, a 19-year-old Chinese international student at the University of Iowa, disappeared after traveling with her boyfriend Jin Li to a motel in September 2014. Investigators later found her decomposing body in a suitcase …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Sept. 6, 2014
View DetailsOn December 19, 1979, 18-year-old high-school student Michelle Martinko went to Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after attending a party. She was last seen around 9 p.m. and was later found dead in the …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Dec. 19, 1979
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