48 hours tonight is about murder in Belleview, IA

[justgamma]

Just thought I'd give a heads up.

OK that's what the paper said. Antique dealer whose head was found in Kansas?

[Bluzmann57]

1. Yeah that case got a lot of pub here

Bellevue is about 50 miles or so from where I live and the local paper gave it some coverage. I imagine if you go to www.qctimes.net and search the archives, you may be able to find something about it. Just remember to spell Bellevue correctly. Thanks for the heads up, think I'll try and catch it.

[justgamma]

2. My goodness. My bad.

I live about 10 miles from there and always thought of retiring there. I love that town.
I must have had a brain fart to have spelled it that way.

[rurallib]

3. Wife & I just went to a murder partcipation hotel up there.

Had no idea there was such a case.

[Debi]

4. A what?

:yoiks:

[terryg11]

5. does it have any connections to tht religious group up there?

can't remember the name of it but I was reading this past fall about some relgious group who has a compound in the Bellevue area and a few parents were upset because their kids had joined? sound familiar?

[Broke Dad]

6. No good deed goes unpunished

The guy killed was a Bellevue antiques dealer who an extensive collection of Civil War stuff. He took in a biker guy and girlfriend to live with him. I think the biker might have even been related to the antiques dealer. I remember the biker had a drug habit and started to "borrow" some of the Civil War swords and other antiques and pawn them. When the dealer called him on it, the biker and his girlfriend killed him and cut the body up and threw most of the pieces into the Mississippi except for the head, which they put into a pail and filled with cement. They then took the pail with them to Missouri where they went to sell some more of the Civil War stuff. Apparently, the biker thought that he could not be prosecuted for murder if authorities could not produce a body.

They got caught when an antiques dealer who was a friend of the slain antiques dealer saw them selling Civil War stuff he knew the guy would never part with. The girlfriend cracked and told police the whole story in return for a lesser sentence. She may even be out now.

Bad deal. I had a couple of antique dealers say that the dead dealer had the most extensive Civil War collection in Iowa, if not the nation and was the nicest guy.