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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Polk County, IA

The Riverbend Road Killing (1999)

Unsolved homicide from 1999 in Polk County, IA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.

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Empty rural field at dusk with a faded dirt road
Timeline
  1. 1999

    Body discovered near Riverbend; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 2000

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 2004

    Records are digitised and released under a public records request.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

Community leads
2 filed
tidewater2 weeks ago

Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.

202 agree
ballistics_note2 weeks ago

County weather records contradict the stated ground conditions in the scene report. That changes the tyre impression reading.

182 agree

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