Crime & Safety
Sheriff: 5 Full-Time Investigators Working on Lyric and Elizabeth Murder Case
Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, 9, were kidnapped while riding their bikes in Evansdale. Their bodies were found in December.
Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson said there are five full-time investigators still working on the investigation into the deaths of Evansdale cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, and Elizabeth Collins, KWWL reported.
The conversation took place at a Sheriff's Town Hall meeting in Evansdale Tuesday.
Lyric, 10, and Elizabeth, 8, were kidnapped in July. The girls disappeared while riding their bikes near Meyers Lake in Evansdale July 13. Their bodies were found by hunters in Seven Bridges Wilderness Area in rural Bremer County Dec. 5.
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No suspects have been named, and since the investigation is ongoing, the authorities have not released how or when the girls died.
A $150,000 award is available for information leading to the capture of those responsible for the deaths. Anyone with information is asked to call the Evansdale Police Department at 319-232-6682 or the Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers at 855-300-TIPS (8477).
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