Iowa Serial Killer?
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Murder in Albia in 1983 (from Small Town Murder podcast)
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Small Town Murder - #327 - Beer, Sex & Jealousy - Albia, Iowa on Stitcher
This week, in Albia, Iowa, a hard drinking pair of distant cousins drink themselves silly, for an entire day, then decide to pick up an ex-girlfriend, and keep the party going. But when the ex-girlfriend turns her affections toward the wrong cousin, the two men take a ride, to discuss their...
Nevertheless...if I were down there and had access to some earth moving equipment my morbid curiosity would get me digging...
Sounded to me like they weren’t eager to let everyone know they were incompetent enough to have a serial killer in their midst for decades that they never knew about.
Gonna guess the sheriffs spent 30+ years glued to a bar stool and couldn't be bothered?
From the article, it sounds like no one wanted to deal with this guy, even law enforcement.
They almost have to dig it up at this point. I'm skeptical of her story. I heard she's a lunatic too.
Wouldn't you be?
I grew up around Hamburg. It is VERY rural down there. Very easy to disappear. I could easily see this happening. A number of the folks were "different".
Probably constitutional sheriffs just picking and choosing what laws he will enforce. Local decisions and all that.
I don’t think that was the guys name, could have read it wrong though.
That's strange, there has been a man missing from Albia since 1984 too.Murder in Albia in 1983 (from Small Town Murder podcast)
Small Town Murder - #327 - Beer, Sex & Jealousy - Albia, Iowa on Stitcher
This week, in Albia, Iowa, a hard drinking pair of distant cousins drink themselves silly, for an entire day, then decide to pick up an ex-girlfriend, and keep the party going. But when the ex-girlfriend turns her affections toward the wrong cousin, the two men take a ride, to discuss their...
Harry Milligan | Iowa Cold Cases
Harry Milligan, a 21-year-old Marine Corps reservist, vanished from Albia, Iowa, in the early morning hours Sunday, July 1, 1984, after a night out with friends.
iowacoldcases.org
And I imagine he was able to paint his daughter as just some "troubled kid" (and, given what she went through, she very well may have been!) so that the police would view her claims with skepticism.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest allies some of these serial killers have is police incompetence. Look at Dahmer. Or the situation going on down in KC.