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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
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Ronald Lee Novak
Male
White / Caucasian
Center Point
IA
1983-12-23
24
Ronald
Lee Novak
11/05/2025
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I wanted to share a major update in a decades-old cold case that’s finally seeing some justice.... ...Read More
06/26/2025
Has anyone else been following the theories about what kind of person could have committed such a ho... ...Read More
11/27/2023
11/27/2023
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08/26/2023
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08/26/2023
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05/21/2023
05/21/2023
