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April 9: Israel Keyes' Tupper Lake victim
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April 9: Israel Keyes' Tupper Lake victim

Plus: young couple killed in cold case, Aleut woman disappears after calling 911, and more.

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Apr 13, 2024
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1974: Mary Jayne Jones abducted and shot

Bubbly, long-haired Mary Jayne Jones used to live in North Carolina, but she’d come to Iowa to be with her pregnant sister—and loved it so much that she ended up staying after the baby was born.

She had a roommate, a boyfriend who gave her a ring for Valentine’s Day (not an engagement ring, but she had her hopes), and a job at a drive-in restaurant in Ottumwa. Jones was only 17.

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