IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa City man accused of killing his wife of 42 years is scheduled to enter a plea this week. Roy Browning, Jr., 70, was slated to face trial in November for first-degree murder. Prosecutors say he stabbed his wife, JoEllen Browning, at their home in Iowa City in April 2019. She was 65 at the time of her murder. Court documents show Browning is slated to enter a plea agreement at a hearing Wednesday in Johnson County Court, though the specifics of the charges have not been filed. Court documents detailed family financial struggles in the weeks leading up to JoEllen’s murder. Investigators claim Roy had been lying to his wife about their finances and she had discovered it days before she was found dead. The Iowa DCI Laboratory in Ankeny examined the blood under JoEllen’s nails, and they found DNA that was not hers; they identified DNA belonging to Roy in the test.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – A jury trial has been pushed back for an Osage man accused of killing a woman he just met. 22-year-old Nathan Gilmore is charged with killing Angela Bradbury back in 2021. In an August 19th, 2022 interview with police, Gilmore reportedly claimed he met up with Bradbury on April 6th, 2021, the last day she was seen alive, but dropped her off later in Mason City. Police say Gilmore was at the park the day her skull was found and that his story reportedly changed upon further questioning. During a search of Gilmore’s residence, police say they also found a whiteboard in Gilmore’s living room with GPS coordinates of where the skull was found. Gilmore is pleading not guilty to Murder in the First Degree. His jury trial has been re-scheduled to April 17th, 2023.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — From the start, the case stemming from a drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old boy near a Des Moines high school has been among the most complex prosecutions ever in Iowa’s capital city, involving 10 teenagers, six guns and at least 42 fired bullets. Plea agreements from several defendants have simplified things a bit, but as frequent hearings continue with trials likely beginning in March, the cases remain tangled as attorneys try to shift blame over who fired the shots, who planned the killing and who was just along for the ride. Experts say it all potentially amounts to a series of incredibly complicated trials.
SPRINGVILLE, Iowa (Iowa’s News Now) — Monday afternoon, the Linn County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a single motorcycle accident involving injury at 1st Avenue and JR Barnes Parkway in Springville. Emergency responders arrived on scene to discover a motorcycle and the driver in the roadway. The injured driver was identified as John Bohlken, 54, of Springville, Iowa. Bohlken was transported to Mercy Hospital by Anamosa Ambulance Service with non-life threatening injuries.
