Arrest made in 1983 death of Nebraska college student from Iran
Authorities have arrested a 67-year-old registered sex offender from Nebraska after the brutal slaying of a UNO student from Iran, Firozeh Dehghanpour.
By: KMTV Staff
and last updated 2021-05-07 16:51:46-04
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa â On the evening of Aug. 14, 1983, a Pottawattamie County deputy received a call saying a dead body had been located near a bridge three miles north of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
That body belonged to Firozeh Dehghanpour, an Iranian exchange student studying at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She bled to death from several stab wounds.
Several items were located and recovered around her, including a bra, a pair of underwear, a blouse and notebooks.
Convicted Sex Offender Is Arrested For 1983 Murder of Iranian College Student Found Stabbed To Death Under Bridge
Firozeh Dehghanpour, 27, had been a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha when she was found slain under a bridge in Iowa. Bud Leroy Christensen has just been arrested in her death. Firozeh Dehghanpour and Bud Leroy Christensen Photo: Pottawattamie County Sheriff s Office
Nearly four decades after an Iranian college student was found naked and stabbed to death under an Iowa bridge, investigators have arrested a 67-year-old convicted sex offender for the brutal murder.
Authorities announced the arrest of Bud Leroy Christensen, a registered sex offender from Nebraska, for the first-degree murder of 27-year-old Firozeh Dehghanpour in a press conference Thursday streamed by local station KETV.
Authorities have arrested a sex offender in the death of an Iranian exchange student who was attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha when she was killed in 1983.
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