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In the early morning hours of August 28, 1977, a sense of unease settled over a Des Moines, Iowa neighborhood. Responding to a call of shots fired at the intersection of Thirteenth Street and Mondamin Avenue, 30-year-old White / Caucasian male, Police Officer Dennis Earl Hill, and his partner arrived at a scene that would tragically be his last. A five-year veteran of the Des Moines Police Department, Hill was a married father of two young children and a man whose own father had also served on t ...Read More
Victim Details

Dennis Earl Hill

Male

White / Caucasian

Des Moines

IA

1977-08-28

30

Dennis

Earl Hill

11/05/2025