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Jesse Hanni

Case from Sioux City, IA dated Dec 02, 1974

Victim Details

Jesse Hanni

Male

White / Caucasian

Sioux City

IA

1974-12-02

26

Jesse

Hanni

07/18/2026

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In the winter of 1974, in Sioux City, Iowa, a sense of unease settled over Harriet Isom when her son, Billy, and his roommate, Jesse Hanni, a 26-year-old Caucasian male, failed to show up for their jobs as boilermakers. On the snowy morning of December 3rd, what she discovered inside their home at 1117 Morningside Drive would become one of the city's most enduring and chilling unsolved mysteries. The bodies of three young people, including Jesse Hanni, were found inside the residence, their live ...
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