Nodaway County MO has a hell of a history of violence.
Iowa Serial Killer?
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There’s something. Maybe just super bad genetics in a shallow pool. In the 30s a guy murdered a teacher. The townsfolk grabbed him, tied him to the school and burned he school down.
Well Iowa does have this guy, he lived here most of his early life, did most of his killing in Alaska though.
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Can’t forget the truck stop killer too. Iowa has put out quite a few serial killers into the world.
Didn’t Gacy live in Waterloo as well?
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Didn’t Gacy live in Waterloo as well?
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Here’s the rundown.
The Creepiest Small Town in America: Skidmore Missouri.
Skidmore, Missouri doesn’t have the population of a small town, it has the population of a small shopping center. The latest estimate is about 250. Houses are cheap. But no one seems to want to move…
This is what I was thinking. The amount of suicides in the family and the general shittiness of the father make me think there’s something there. It might not be to the extent of what the daughter is saying but I can believe some **** went down.
50-70 is almost an impossible number. Especially from a “drunk lazy moron” who couldn’t keep his mouth shut. I wouldn’t bet against some dark **** happening there but this guy being the most successful serial killer ever isn’t very likely.
Makes for some good headlines though, and now I guess we’ll know for sure because it’s got enough attention they can’t ignore it.
For sure. Sounds like most, if not all were sex workers, if the claims turn out to be true.
I agree. The heck is that. If someone says my dad killed a bunch of people and I know where they are burried. They should at least go check out the site. Especially if she was saying 50-70 women.
This story could put him in the top 3 serial killers in American History. Crazy
I live in Norwalk Iowa and we have some serious strange case on two different Murders. The Richard Forsythe murders where he killed his whole family. 7 in total and. Then a lady who probably killed her two kids and got away with it and still lives in Norwalk. Her name is Teri Lass. Here are both things . Pretty crazy stuff for a town that at the time had around 4-5K population
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Six Killed, One Critically Wounded in Apparent Domestic Dispute
NORWALK, Iowa (AP) _ Neighbors watched as a couple's marriage began falling apart after one of their children died in an accident. Three years later, they watched authorities investigate a shooting that left six dead and one wounded. Mary Jolene Forsyth, 39, her son Brian, 18, and...
Tamara Lass
10-day-old Tamara Lass of Norwalk was found dead March 1, 1988 and her cause of death ruled undetermined. Her 6-day-old brother was murdered 4 years later.
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In keeping with murders from SWI, here is a podcast about a murder in Shenandoah that happened in the 80s. I grew up in Shen and never heard about this while I lived there.
The fact that the cadaver dogs hit on several areas of the property should be enough for a bigger investigation of this.
Small Counties run on small budgets. You couldnt run Fremont county like neighboring Mills County. (expecting and getting an expanded tax base every year). Very little growth year after year and the number of taxpayers shrinks and the proportional number of people complaining about property taxes rises. There is a ton of property taxpayers asserting political pressure on rural County Supervisors. And in rural counties Supervisor is just a part time job.
Yep. Lived right over by MercyOne Hospital (used to be called Covenant and something else before that)Can’t forget the truck stop killer too. Iowa has put out quite a few serial killers into the world.
Didn’t Gacy live in Waterloo as well?
Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades - Wikipedia
Also, Fremont County, in the very southwest corner of the state, experienced the greatest percentage population loss of all Iowa counties between 2010 and 2020, I believe. That it was the most extreme was likely due to major Missouri River flooding in both 2011 and 2019. In 2019, large parts of I-29 were torn up, and as I recall, a levee broke near Hamburg resulting in major flooding there.
Something like 15 or so would seem more plausible and this poor lady has just relived everything in her mind so many times that the number would seem so much higher to her.
