Iowa True Crime cases

[CascadeClone]

I worked with the fiance when that episode came out. She didn't want to do it but Dateline had said they were going forward with the story and if she didn't participate, they would most likely spend part of the episode making her look suspicious.

That's a problem I have with this true crime stuff. They spend the first 80% of the show making everyone look like a suspect, even people that had no motive and an airtight alibi. Saw one once where the boyfriend was literally out of town, confirmed by multiple witnesses. But they spent 5 full minutes on him, implying a bad breakup and maybe history of stalking/violence. Then went to commercial break, and then came back and said "but he was literally 2 states away so nevermind".

And then they can lean on you (extort?) to be involved - like the above, with the implication spoken or not, that they will make you look bad. All for their own benefit. Some of these folks are garbage people.

 

[g4ce]

Here is Iowas cold case site.

Home | Iowa Cold Cases

The Iowa Cold Cases website is the first and foremost clearinghouse for cold cases all over the state, including unsolved homicides and persons who went missing under suspicious circumstances.

iowacoldcases.org

One that sticks out to me other than the ones you mentioned.

Adam Lack

Adam Lack

Adam Lack, 33, was killed July 13, 2008 after being lured from his family's Mitchell County, Iowa home by one of many bullying upstream polluting farmers.

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and his father

Gary Lack

Gary Lack

Gary Lack, 58, was poisoned by a Mercy Hospice nurse at his Nora Springs, Iowa home Jan. 14, 2004, after fighting Mitchell County point source water polluters.

iowacoldcases.org

Corruption at its finest.

That was a hard read. Erin Brockovich level stuff right there. Don't know if its all true but people can be horrible.

 

[2speedy1]

That was a hard read. Erin Brockovich level stuff right there. Don't know if its all true but people can be horrible.

Right, the question is how much is true, how much is exaggerated etc.

As I said before, I am sure its somewhere in the middle. I am sure some of what was written is absolutely true, some is exaggerated and some is straight up conspiracy theory. Unfortunately we probably will never know.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

The Adam Lack case is complete and utter ******** that people unfamiliar with how any of this works have bought into hook line and sinker.

You have to accept that an entire fire department, sheriff’s department, and district court judge let a guy die over an argument that didn’t even have major financial consequences. You also have to accept that a vehicle that had its brakes cut went through multiple T intersections, and crossed a state highway without the driver being aware that said brakes were cuts.

If the circumstances surrounding the Lacks deaths resulted in a conspiracy of nearly hundreds of people determined to kill them, rural Iowa would be littered with cases like this.

Found a podcast called ODFM that covered the Lack case. Person who did the research was a high school friend of Adam.

Podcast was only 30 minutes but packed in so much information.

From the dad being poisoned by drugs the nurse had stolen and then his body being cremated without knowledge or consent from the family to Adam's incident where he was trapped in his vehicle for around 7 hours then not using jaws of life to help extract him.

Made me feel ill inside.