On a tragic day in June of 2015, the life of 27-year-old Kimberly L. Stern was brought to a violent end in her Dubuque, Iowa home. On the morning of Tuesday, June 9, 2015, the Dubuque 911 center received a call that led police to the residence Kimberly shared with her father.
Upon their arrival at the home located on Clarke Drive, officers were met by 62-year-old Robert Stern. He directed them to a bedroom where they discovered his daughter, Kimberly, deceased.
It was immediately apparent that she had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. During the initial investigation, Robert Stern was interviewed by police and confessed to shooting and killing his daughter. He was subsequently arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Kimberly, who was born on May 14, 1988, in Miami, Florida, was remembered as a creative individual who had a passion for a collection of dolls, for which she created names and personalities and wrote stories about them. Her father, Robert Stern, was later convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. While authorities did not publicly discuss a motive for the killing, a neighbor mentioned that Robert had recently been diagnosed with cancer and that his wife had passed away from the disease the previous year.
