1852
In 1852 George M. Earl came to the area with his wife and family and settled it, and the town was named Earlville after him.
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FILE 420 / 2 September 2023 / 71 MIN / express
We're going to Earlville, in northeastern Iowa, between Cedar Rapids and Dubuque. about 0:04:10
In 1852 George M. Earl came to the area with his wife and family and settled it, and the town was named Earlville after him.
about 0:05:31The town was once known as Nottingham, after a stockholder in the railroad, but was renamed Earlville because of a conflict with another nearby community called Nottingham.
about 0:05:38In 1883 the Masonic Town Hall was organised and a three-story brick building was built for five thousand dollars.
about 0:06:01In 1852 George M. Earl came to the area with his wife and family and settled it, and the town was named Earlville after him.
about 0:05:31The town was once known as Nottingham, after a stockholder in the railroad, but was renamed Earlville because of a conflict with another nearby community called Nottingham.
about 0:05:38In 1883 the Masonic Town Hall was organised and a three-story brick building was built for five thousand dollars.
about 0:06:01"891"
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"60,127"
Comparison: "a few thousand higher than the national average". Direction: above.
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"$204,000"
Comparison: "much lower than the national average". Direction: below.
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4.5 / 5 · average of 2
“Never had any problems, and if we do, someone's there right away to take care of it.”about 0:06:42
“If I could live here for the rest of my life I would; the neighbours are wonderful and wouldn't be traded for anything.”about 0:06:57
Earlville, Iowa, is a farming town of 891 people in Delaware County, in the north-east of the state between Cedar Rapids and Dubuque. It was settled in 1852 by George M. Earl and his family, was once called Nottingham after a railroad stockholder, and took its present name after a conflict with another nearby Nottingham. In 1883 the town built a three-story brick Masonic Town Hall for five thousand dollars. Online reviews of the town are few and praise its quiet and its neighbours.
He bought his first farm in 1999 at the age of nineteen and built the operation up to three farms and part of another. In 2003 he met Amy at the Delaware County Fair; they married in 2004 and she moved onto the farm. They had three children, boys in 2005 and 2010 and a girl in 2007. Amy worked in healthcare rather than on the farm. In 2013, after about ten years of marriage, she had an affair with someone at work.
In June 2018 Amy began an affair with Jerry Fraser, who oversaw the farm's hog operation. They met on the farm, on back roads and occasionally in hotel rooms, sometimes more than once a week. Jerry said the messages were about showing pigs. Amy told friends she was quietly looking for a job and a place to live.
On 6 November 2018 Amy had an outpatient ablation and was told not to lift more than ten pounds. At 10.12 a.m. Amy emailed Jerry that she was cleaning light fixtures in the barn. He found his mother face down on her hands and knees with a corn rake buried in her back, checked her pulse and shouted for his father. A deputy took over CPR and an ambulance took her to hospital, where she died.
The medical examiner found six puncture wounds although the rake had four tines, plus injuries to her chin, cheekbones, knees and knuckles, and asked the state forensic pathologist to review the case. The pathologist found two different wound paths, meaning she had been impaled at least twice and possibly three times, that the wounds to her left hand were defensive, and that the rake went through her back, rupturing a breast implant and puncturing a lung and liver. The death was ruled a homicide. A search warrant produced no camera footage from the red shed and no yard video for the day.
Amy's family filed a wrongful death suit in 2020. A change.org petition, two websites and a Facebook group campaign for his release, and the hosts leave the question of his guilt open.
November 10, 2018 / the red shed on the Mullis farm, Earlville, Iowa
As told in the episode, on 2 September 2023.
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