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Mass killings in Iowa historySome of the worst mass slayings in Iowa history:2008 — The bodies of a mother and four children werefound in a home on Iowa City's east side on March 24. Police were still trying to determine what happened to the father, who was recently indicted on federal embezzlement charges.2006 — Michaei Bentler, 53; his wife Sandra, 4/; and their three daughters, Sheena, 17, Shelby, 15. and Shayne, 14. were shot to death in the family’s home near Bonaparte. The Bentlers' son, Shawn Bentler, was convicted of five counts of murder.2001 — Leticia Aguilar, 31, her five children and businessman Ronald Fish were found dead in their Sioux City homes, Aguilar's boyfriend and a former employee of Fish’s, Adam Moss, was convicted of the slayings.1993 — Jolene Forsyth, 39. three of her children and two children she was babysitting were found shot to death in Forsyth’s Norwalk home, Her estranged husband, Rick Forsyth, was found in the home critically wounded with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.1993 —Three adults and too children were shot to death and buried in a field west of Mason City. Two people, Dustin Honken, 33, and Angela Johnson, were convicted on federal murder charges in the drug-related slayings and sentenced to death.1991 — Five people were shot to death at the University of Iowa by Gang Lu, a disgruntled student who later killed himself.1987 —John and Agnes Dreesman, their two grown children and three grandchildren were found shot to death in the Dreesman home in Algona. Police believed one of the children, Robert Dreesman, killed the others and then himself.1985 — Dale Burr shot his wife, Emily, at their home in Hills, bank president John Hughes at his office and a neighbor, Richard Goody, at Goody’s farm. Burr then shot and killed himself.1983 — Ethel Mae Franken, 33, shot her husband, Darrell. 37, and their three children before killing herself in Aplington.1981 — Bonnie Gilbert, 34, and her five children were shot to death at their home in Del-mar. Her husband, Gene Gilbert, 28, was implicated in the slayings and committed suicide at his father’s home in South Dakota.1978 —Gerald Hoffman Jr., 15. his brother Geoffrey, 14, and Jeffrey Beavers, 14, all of West Des Moines, were shot in a downtown Des Moines bookstore. William Baldwin, 30, of Des Moines, was shot in a nearby bookstore, A prison escapee from Alabama was convicted in the youths' deaths, but charges for Baldwin’s death were dropped.— The Associated Press
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Burlington Hawk Eye
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