More than 40 years ago, Ronald Lee Novak suffered a gruesome and mysterious Christmas Eve death in rural Linn County. Novak's brother Jon found his body in an unheated utility/mudroom that led to the ...

Ahead of the 2026 legislative session, Iowa statewide elected officials have released proposals they hope lawmakers will ...

(TNS) — Without advanced DNA testing developed by a Texas lab, Iowa City Police investigators may not have been able to identify an infant found in 1992 in an Iowa City landfill because the DNA tissue ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon man connected to a cold case via DNA has been arrested on suspicion of beating and shooting a man in Iowa in 1983. Michael S. Schappert, 64, is accused of killing ...

More than 40 years after a 24-year-old man was killed in rural Iowa, a suspect has now been arrested in connection to his murder through DNA research, according to the Linn County Sheriff's Department ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is calling on the legislature to pass a law requiring the collection of DNA from adults arrested for felonies or aggravated misdemeanors. All 50 states require DNA ...