Norbert Henry Giles

Death by Force

Man found shot on his bedroom floor
Norbert Henry Gilles, 68, a male resident of rural Marion County near Aurora, was found shot on the floor of his bedroom in early August 1987, a violent end that jarred the quiet farming community. Reports describe the discovery on August 4, 1987, in or near Aurora; public death records and memorial listings place his date of death the following day, August 5, 1987, with burial at St. Luke's Cemetery in Woodburn. The small details that survive in public accounts are stark: a man alone in his hom ...Read More