IOWA 1971 Cold Case Solved After 50 Years — He Kept Asking Police About Her Murder

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• UN

  @UnresolvedCase-g9u · 3 days ago

  i am glad this case is solved

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• RA

  @randyhopkins9114 · 4 days ago

  If they had even the slightest guess that he did it, they should have called his bluff, or gotten a warrant for his polygraph, and/or DNA!..

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• SY

  @sydnigrauberger5984 · 3 days ago

  I'm a born (1976) and bred Iowan, but I've never heard of tthis

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• CA

  @CarstenLindberg · 4 days ago

  🕵‍♂🔍He was in prison, which was actually why she had moved to Cedar Rapids, as it is located close to Anamosa State Penitentiary.

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• PR

  @ProudKansan08 · 3 days ago

  I am confused. She got married, yet moved into an apartment in another far away city.  So where’s her husband? Why didn’t her husband report her missing? Where was her husband? Was he in the military?  I am really confused. It sounds like she got married, then ditched her husband to live away from everyone.

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• KA

  @KarlG-z9d · 3 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl_a4PvdBk&amp;t=75">1:15</a> &nbsp; Who the HELL orders a CUP of coffee, AND a POT of COFFEE???

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• DE

  @debpakederm · 4 days ago

  Where is the husband ? 😮

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• RU

  @rupakgbikas4477 · 2 days ago (edited)

  CODIS is a DNA &nbsp;database list of arrested people arrested for serious crime offences, arrested after 1995.

• SY

  @sydnigrauberger5984 · 3 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl_a4PvdBk&amp;t=530">8:50</a> Where was her husband? Military?

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• CA

  @CarstenLindberg · 3 days ago (edited)

  🕵‍♂🔍 <br>&quot;Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health&quot;<br> <br>Maureen was not on her way to work on Friday morning, September 17, 1971. <br> <br>It was her day off. She was running quick errands in her immediate neighborhood and was last seen alive borrowing money to buy a pack of cigarettes 🚬<br> <br>In 1971, liquor stores served as the primary local shops for tobacco.<br><br>There was no store closer or more natural for her to visit than the Party Lane Liquor Store located at 1000 5th Ave SE—right next to Maureen&apos;s apartment—where police records confirmed a George M. Smith was on shift that exact Friday morning :hand-orange-covering-eyes:<br><br>Deciding between Marlboro and &nbsp;Camel, she received a blow to the head and ended &nbsp;up in &nbsp;the trunk of his car :eyes-purple-crying:<br><br>If the cops had just grabbed the baseball bat George kept behind the register for robberies and dusted it for blood 🩸 it would’ve been an immediate strikeout. Game over for Smith.<br><br>All it would have taken was for the cops to understand that craving a smoke :face-turquoise-drinking-coffee:is the ultimate victimology—then they’d have nailed the killer on day one and grabbed a bottle of bourbon to celebrate on the way out 🥃<br><br>That Surgeon General was deadly accurate :face-blue-wide-eyes:

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• CA

  @CarstenLindberg · 4 days ago (edited)

  🕵‍♂🔍Why did Maureen end up becoming his victim? (Victimology) One theory could be that she had shown an interest in him because he had previously been incarcerated at Anamosa State Penitentiary. Since her own husband was currently locked up there, she might have been curious to hear what the prison was like. However, Smith likely forgot to mention that his own time behind bars had been for sexual assault :hand-orange-covering-eyes:

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• EL

  @Eliza1638 · 4 days ago

  If she was a newlywed -- or even engaged -- why was it not her partner calling around frantically all weekend? &nbsp;Why did the phone call wait until Monday, from the boss? &nbsp;(Maybe that comes up later in the vid, I&apos;m only at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl_a4PvdBk&amp;t=807">13:27</a>.)

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