The man convicted in the 39-year-old cold case murder of Michelle Martinko has lost his bid to overturn his conviction. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday denied the appeal of Jerry Lynn Burns, now 69, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Thirty-nine years after Michelle Martinko was found stabbed to death in her family's Buick in the parking lot of Westdale Mall, Cedar Rapids police announced they finally arrested a ...

An Iowa man serving life in prison for the stabbing death of an 18-year-old woman in 1979 has lost an appeal to overturn his conviction. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday rejected 69-year-old Jerry ...

The Iowa Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a Manchester man convicted in the cold case murder of a Cedar Rapids teen at a local Mall. Jerry Burns was found guilty in 2020 of first-degree murder ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The man convicted of the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko has had his appeal denied by the Iowa Supreme Court. Jerry Burns’ attorneys say investigators violated the ...

(CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa) — On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family’s car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to buy a winter coat, Cedar Rapids police ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The man convicted in the 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko in Cedar Rapids took his appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court. Jerry Burns’ attorneys say investigators violated the ...

Iowa police arrested a suspect Wednesday in the brutal murder of a teenage girl, precisely 39 years after the girl vanished and her body was discovered near a Cedar Rapids mall. Police said ...