Movement on two cold cases in Western Iowa.

[lucas80]

In 1983 Terri McCauley was murdered in Sioux City. Thomas Popp has been extradited from Washington to stand trial in her murder.
https://who13.com/news/iowa-news/suspect-in-1983-cold-case-murder-returned-to-iowa/

Barbara Lenz disappeared in 1989. Her body has never been found, but her former boyfriend Robert Davis will stand trial for her murder.

https://www.kcrg.com/2025/03/11/iowa-man-arrested-35-years-after-womans-disappearance/

It's stellar to see investigators stick after these cases. The McCauley case I am not overly familiar with, but the Lenz case stuck out because her body was never found and that one got a lot of publicity. McCauley was Native American and her case got some push due to the efforts to the longstanding neglect in crimes against women in the Native American community.

 

[Bierhalter]

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After reading the KCRG article - have to give state officials credit for creating the cold case unit. They get it right sometimes.