Cerro Gordo County

He came up from Arizona to provide DNA, fingerprints, and palm prints.

Days later, Mason City Police obtained a search warrant from a Cerro Gordo County judge to put GPS trackers on his two vehicles, a 1999 Honda Civic and a 2013 GMC pickup.

Nobody in the department has ever spelled out the theory, but it isn't hard to guess.

If Vancis was guilty, maybe being hauled in front of a grand jury would rattle him into visiting wherever he'd left her remains.

Fingerprints were taken of the deceased for purposes of identification.

And then each of the reports ends with I, Ralph E. Smiley, M.D. Acting, Coroner of Cerro Gordo, County, Iowa, on the fourth day of February 1959, hereby certify the above facts are made of record after diligent investigation, and I believe them to be correct.

Signed, Ralph E. Smiley, M.D., Coroner End quote.

That bit at the end there is the same, except for the date of either the 3rd or the 4th, so we don't necessarily need to keep reading that, but that is how it ends.

The money comes from a national settlement from manufacturers, distributors, and marketers accused of fueling the opioid epidemic.

$317,000 from Iowa's Opioid Settlement Fund is going to Cerro Gordo County in north central Iowa.

Samantha Severson is with that county's public health department.

She says the program that's receiving the money provides peer-to-peer support to inmates in jail and life skills.

An FBI behavioral scientist weighed whether Jodi's case was connected to other young women who had vanished around the region.

That spring, 100 volunteers combed Cerro Gordo County, flagging anything that looked the slightest bit suspicious for police to check.

Every site came back clean.

They did settle on one thing very early, though, that this was not random.

They made their comments at the Iowa State Fair.

The World Championships of Aerobatics is underway over northern Iowa's Cerro Gordo County with more than 30 of the world's top pilots around the globe taking part.

Contest director Wayne Forbes says Mason City is very welcoming.

It's really been