Unsolved
Waverly stranglings
- Year
- 1971
- Where
- Iowa
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
What the record says
The Waverly stranglings refers to three unsolved murders committed from 1971 to 1976, with the victims being a teenage girl and two young women who lived in Waverly, Iowa. Due to the fact that all victims were killed in similar circumstances, news media has speculated that this possibly was the work of a serial killer. To this day, the murders remain cold cases, with nobody having been arrested or charged in…
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