Erin Jordan
Special to the Globe Gazette
The Iowa Department of Corrections is seeking a vendor to review all parts of its prison system, from staffing and inmate classification to the safety of buildings where more than 8,000 criminal offenders are housed.
The request for proposals, which closed Wednesday, says the vendor that is chosen will provide a final report by Dec. 1. But the Corrections Department wonât confirm whether the findings will be available to the public.
âIâm unable to answer that question this time,â Corrections Department Spokesman Cord Overton said in an email.
The institutional review follows the March 23 attack in which two offenders at the Anamosa State Penitentiary are accused of bludgeoning to death correctional Officer Robert McFarland and nurse Lorena Schulte in an escape attempt.
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.
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Opening arguments are set to begin in the trial of a Pella woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s girlfriend nearly one year ago.
The jury has been selected as Michelle Boat, 56, faces a charge of first degree murder, for the death of Tracy Mondabough of Ottumwa.
The Pella Police Department, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and Marion County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the investigation following an arrest made in May of 2020. Stay tuned to 92.1 KRLS for updates.
Updated: 1:30 PM EDT May 6, 2021 Chelsea Robinson Digital Media Manager Officials said Thursday that a man had been arrested in the cold case slaying of a University of Nebraska at Omaha student. Firozeh Dehghanpour was found dead in August 1983. Dehghanpour, thought to be 24 years old, was an Iranian national in the United States on a student visa. She was about to graduate with a double major when she died.BELOW: News coverage from sister station KETV after Dehghanpour was found dead in 1983Her nude body was found north of Council Bluffs, Iowa, under a bridge. Her throat had been slashed. An autopsy led investigators to believe she had died somewhere different from where she was found. Bud Christensen, 67, has been taken into custody for the killing. Officials stated that Christensen was arrested April 30. He waived extradition Tuesday, was transported to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Wednesday and had his initial appearance in court Thursday morning.