Iowa

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In 2022, 287 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Iowa. This is 8 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Iowa in 2022 was 25 percent lower than the United States average.

In 2022, 46 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Iowa were not solved. This is 2 percentage points higher than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Des Moines
  • Population:  3,155,070
  • Area:  56,273 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  31st
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Aaron Marr Alta Braun Donna Davis Edward Hickson Ernest Lilly Gary Dean Lack Joe Floyd John Adams Jr Linda Mayfield Ronald Novak
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Featured Iowa Missing Cases

Grant Leonard

Missing: Oct 21, 2023
Grant Wongsatorn Leonard, 29, was last seen in Coralville, Iowa, on October 21, 2023. He was reporte ...Read More

Blaine Evans

Missing: Jul 13, 2018
Blaine Owen Evans, aged 52, was last seen on July 13, 2018, in Windham, Iowa. He was reported missin ...Read More

Kenneth Teubel

Missing: Sep 09, 2019
Kenneth R. Teubel, age 54 at the time of his disappearance, was last seen on September 9, 2019, in O ...Read More

Ricardo Pimentel

Missing: Dec 19, 1989
Ricardo Jerome Pimentel, age 39, was last seen in Davenport, Iowa, on December 19, 1989. He was repo ...Read More

David McAllister

Missing: May 10, 2017
David Allen McAllister, a 22-year-old from Bettendorf, Iowa, went missing on May 10, 2017. He was la ...Read More

Willie Rucker

Missing: Apr 12, 1979
Willie Ann Rucker, a 27-year-old mother of three, was last seen in Waterloo, Iowa, on April 8, 1979. ...Read More

Yerlanin Garcia

Missing: Jan 15, 2010
Yerlanin Bautista Garcia, a 12-year-old girl, was last seen in Eagle Grove, Iowa, on January 15, 201 ...Read More

Timothy Vincent

Missing: May 01, 2017
Timothy Dean Vincent, 26, was last seen in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 1, 2017. Standing 6'4" and weigh ...Read More

Michael Delaney

Missing: Jul 03, 2008
Michael James Delaney, 49, was last seen in Davenport, Iowa, on July 3, 2008. He lived with his 17-y ...Read More

Timothy Fortney

Missing: Mar 18, 2018
Timothy William Michal Fortney, 22, was last seen on March 18, 2018, in Ottumwa, Iowa. His last know ...Read More
Featured Iowa Murder Cases

John Adams Jr

Murdered: Jul 11, 1982
John Adams Jr., a 23-year-old man, was murdered on July 11, 1982, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His body ...Read More

Ernest Lilly

Murdered: Sep 11, 1973
Ernest Harold Lilly Sr., a 50-year-old World War II Navy veteran, was shot on September 11, 1973, in ...Read More

Donna Davis

Murdered: Jul 11, 1955
Late on the evening of Sunday, July 10, 1955, Donna Sue Davis was abducted from her home in Sioux Ci ...Read More

Alta Braun

Murdered: Aug 21, 1917
Alta Braun, a 12-year-old girl from Le Mars, Iowa, was tragically murdered on the night of August 20 ...Read More

Edward Hickson

Murdered: Feb 15, 1978
On February 15, 1978, Edward Leroy Hickson, age 32, was found dead at the Rock Island Bunkhouse #27 ...Read More

Linda Mayfield

Murdered: Apr 09, 1982
Linda Mayfield, a 21-year-old woman, was brutally murdered on April 9, 1982, in Council Bluffs, Iowa ...Read More

Aaron Marr

Murdered: Sep 22, 2007
Aaron Michael Marr, 37, was found fatally stabbed in his Ames, Iowa, apartment on September 22, 2007 ...Read More

Gary Dean Lack

Murdered: Jan 14, 2004
Gary Dean Lack, a 58-year-old man from Nora Springs, Iowa, died on January 14, 2004, under suspiciou ...Read More

Joe Floyd

Murdered: Jul 01, 1967
On July 1, 1967, Joseph "Joe Junior" Floyd, a 42-year-old World War II veteran, was found dead near ...Read More

Ronald Novak

Murdered: Dec 24, 1983
Ronald Lee Novak, 24, was brutally murdered in his rural home near Center Point, Iowa, on December 2 ...Read More