Neighbors recall quiet, troubled Gilbert home before tragedy
In Delmar Iowa the Gilbert family lived a reclusive life behind a two story wood frame house. Bonnie Gilbert 34 and her five children were found dead, Gene Gilbert 28 apparently killed himself in Yale South Dakota. Neighbors described a strict distant father and a timid mother, with hints of past threats and family tension.
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Delmar
Gene Gilbert
South Dakota
Bonnie Gilbert
Rachelle Gilbert
Michelle Roling
Gene Gilbert Jr
Dawn Roling
Jason Roling
Roling
Bonnie
Gilbert
Jackie Wentworth
Dawn
Dean
Jackie
Ethel
Gene
Randy McKeon
Iowa
Main Street
Jan
Delwood High School
Elwood
Jan Daehler
Michelle
Wentworth
Iowa Mass Murders Stand Among Worst in State History
A review ranks Bonnie Gilbert and her six children among Iowa’s four largest mass murders this century, with Villisca ax killings, Denison asphyxiation, and a 1962 Sigourney family massacre noted. Other cases include Elsie Nollen in 1933 and the 1975 Cedar Falls killings. The report covers Des Moines teen killings in 1978 and related trials, with the Mark family case upheld by the state Supreme Court.
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Des Moines
UPI
Bonnie Gilbert
Delmar
Iowa
Villisca
Denison
Sigourney
Spirit Lake
Gilbert
Clinton County
South Dakota
Elsie Nollen
Gayne G. Smith
Smith
Daniel R. Munro
Jerry Mark
Cedar Falls
Leslie Mark
Iowa Supreme Court
Mark
Arrest of murder suspect ends Iowa town manhunt
In Vail Iowa a 24 hour statewide search ended when Robert Koch 31 of Palatine Illinois was captured by Iowa State Patrol troopers Frank Weber and Bill Springer after a resident identified him. Koch is jailed on charges including kidnapping and assault to do bodily harm while Illinois planned murder charges loom. His mother Jean Koch reported abducting and abuse preceding the murder.
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VAIL
Iowa
Illinois
Iowa State Patrol
Frank Weber
Bill Springer
Dick Blair
Blair
Robert Koch
Palatine
Ill
Bob
Weber
Springer
Koch
Des Moines
Crawford County
Jean Koch
Eugene Koch
Gerald Shanahan
Iowa Division of
Ping
Cathy
Shanahan
DCI
Ron Forrest
Forrest
Insurance agents charged over secretly filmed conduct
Iowa state insurance investigators using film crews from WHO TV secretly recorded 11 agents at a department employee home to probe deceptive sales of supplemental medical insurance for the elderly. Ten agents, from Des Moines and West Des Moines areas, were charged with violating regulations. one was not charged.
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Des Moines
Who-Tv
Bruce Foudree
Department
Erma Steinick
Madrid
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