Stories from Saturday, April 16, 2016

Gone Cold: Exploring Iowa's unsolved murders is a continuing collaborative effort by Iowa news organizations to revisit some of the most brutal and mystifying homicides in Iowa's history. From time to time, we'll share information about many of the state's 438 unsolved homicides...

More than 11 years ago, the lives of the McCuddin family were changed forever. On Oct. 2, 2004, Lisa McCuddin, 23, was shot and killed in Fort Dodge. She was a passenger in a car that was being driven down Kenyon Road when the shots were fired. McCuddin was four days shy of turning 24...

A reward for information leading to the whereabouts of missing Hampton man Ethan Kazmerzak was increased to $100,000 recently. Kazmerzak was last seen at various local bars on the night of Sept. 15, 2013. Investigators have followed up on numerous leads since his disappearance and came up empty-handed in every instance. Multiple aerial searches and ground investigations have been completed at fields, lakes and ponds, but substantial evidence has been fleeting...

This is a weekly feature highlighting some of Iowa's unsolved homicides in the hopes that it will lead to new tips and potentially help solve cases. The project is a partnership between this newspaper and other members of the Iowa Newspaper Association. Find out more about these and other unsolved homicides at www.IowaColdCases.org...