Iowa Serial Killer?

heitclone

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Did a Google maps street view of Thurman. What I expected the town to look like.
It was never much but they've been hit really hard the last decade or so with natural disasters. A tornado took half the town out and then the '19 floods came right up to their doorsteps.
 
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iowastatefan1929

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In a valley, 100ft down a well.
Its gonna be a huge job to dig this out.

You just dont willy nilly dig that in afternoon.
 

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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



I live in Norwalk also... I had no clue about the second one with the 2 infants. The Richard Forsyth murders is just disgusting.

The house where it happened has been on the market several times since I've moved to town in 2008. I'll ride by it on my intown bike route and it's creepy as hell in the dark.

Then the added rumor about the brother of the non family member that was killed, was going to come back in 2013 on the 20th anniversary and kill someone.

Norwalk has had some weird murder cases over the last 30 year.

A killing in the park near the old train car. Think they ruled it accidental death.
Stabbing death a few weeks back. Suspect was apprehended.
Arlys Ponce stabbing death in 1997
Bill and Kay Wood who were murdered and house burned down 2011
 

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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



Forsyth was and always will be a big piece of **** … rot in hell *******.
 
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I live in Norwalk also... I had no clue about the second one with the 2 infants. The Richard Forsyth murders is just disgusting.

The house where it happened has been on the market several times since I've moved to town in 2008. I'll ride by it on my intown bike route and it's creepy as hell in the dark.

Then the added rumor about the brother of the non family member that was killed, was going to come back in 2013 on the 20th anniversary and kill someone.

Norwalk has had some weird murder cases over the last 30 year.

A killing in the park near the old train car. Think they ruled it accidental death.
Stabbing death a few weeks back. Suspect was apprehended.
Arlys Ponce stabbing death in 1997
Bill and Kay Wood who were murdered and house burned down 2011

I am friends with the woods family and had been at that house several times growing up. Helped search for them a few days. Just sad. The infant ones still blow my mind. Everyone knows she murdered those kids and she still lives in town
 

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Ken Rex McElroy. It's also where Lisa Montgomery murdered Bobbi Jo Stinnett and cut the baby out of the womb. There have been a few other murders/missing people situations there. The town only has about 300 people in it. Conception is down around there also. That's where the guy shot all those monks back in the early 2000's. Then there's all the stuff that's happened in Maryville.

JFC
 
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Ken Rex McElroy. It's also where Lisa Montgomery murdered Bobbi Jo Stinnett and cut the baby out of the womb. There have been a few other murders/missing people situations there. The town only has about 300 people in it. Conception is down around there also. That's where the guy shot all those monks back in the early 2000's. Then there's all the stuff that's happened in Maryville.

What happened in Maryville?
 

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If there are 75+ murder victims as this article suggests you would think there would at least be some missing person reports and investigations over that time span. It would be really hard, even in butt **** Iowa, to kill and burry that many people without any suspicion.
There are massive amounts of missing people every year that are never found, and if they're down on their luck, there's probably not a lot of people looking for them either.

Most solved murder cases are ones where the murderer was an acquaintance of the victim. If that's not the case, they investigate for a while, and if they don't find any leads, it goes on the pile until they stumble across more information (unless the family and press is applying active pressure to keep it going).
 
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