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In the biting cold of a rural Iowa December in 1983, a young White/Caucasian man named Ronald Lee Novak, 24, met a violent and untimely end. On Christmas Eve, a friend discovered Novak's body in an unheated room of his farmhouse at 5044 Rolling Acres Rd, just north of Center Point. The scene was one of brutality; Novak’s hands were bound behind his back, he had been severely beaten about the head and face, and he had suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest. The medical examiner would late ...Read More
Victim Details

Ronald Lee Novak

Male

White / Caucasian

Center Point

IA

1983-12-23

24

Ronald

Lee Novak

11/29/2025