By Chris Turner, Trent Rice
Mar 31, 2021
The 10-year-old girl went missing in Davenport last July. This news is heartbreaking, said Davenport Police Chief Paul Sikorski. To both Breasia s family and the Davenport community. Our deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers are with all of those affected by this tragic loss.
Sikorski says the case is now officially a homicide investigation. We ve been conducting this investigation over the last nine months as if it was, he said.
Terrell s body was found last week by people fishing in a pond near DeWitt, in Clinton County.
Sikorski says no charges have been filed yet in her disappearance or death.
A Sac City man charged with felony drug possession in Carroll County District Court has been scheduled for trial at the beginning of June. Court records show 54-year-old Vernon George Cady has submitted a not guilty plea to third or subsequent offense possession of a controlled substance methamphetamine, a class D felony. The charge stems from a Nov. 28, 2020 traffic stop in the 500 block of E. 18
th Street for operating a motor vehicle while his license was revoked. Cady was taken into custody and transported to the Carroll County jail. During the booking process, authorities located two baggies containing substances believed to be methamphetamine. Test results from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) laboratory confirmed the materials were narcotics. Cady’s jury trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday, June 1 with a pretrial conference on May 13. A class D felony in Iowa carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and $7,500 in fines.
Person of interest
Breasia Terrell was last seen in the early hours of July 10, 2020, in the 2700 Block of 53rd Street in Davenport, Iowa, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts and white or pink flip-flops.
WQAD reportedin July that Terrell was reported missing after going to spend the previous night at an apartment with her half-brother, and his father,
Henry Earl Dinkins. Dinkins, 48, was named a person of interest in the girl’s disappearance.
Davenport Police Chief Paul Sikorski said in a press conference Wednesday the investigation into Terrell’s disappearance had been conducted as a homicide for the past nine months,
On each side of the Winnebago River near the Illinois Avenue bridge, Iowa State Patrol officers could be seen painting green circles on the banks of both sides of the river.
The Mason City Police Department is being assisted by other law enforcement agencies in its search for more human remains that were found along the Winnebago River on March 11. Jerry Smith
The marks will play an important role in the continued search of human remains found on the north shore of the river on March 11.
Law enforcement agencies working with the Mason City Police Department continued the search Thursday, but also sent a drone up to fly over a portion of the river to set up a search grid and map.