1838
The town is called Agency because an Indian agency was established there in 1838 to keep an eye on the local tribes, who were later moved to Kansas.
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FILE 514 / 27 July 2024 / 72 MIN / express
"It's agency Iowa... It's in southeastern Iowa", about an hour and 40 minutes from Des Moines about 0:03:48
The town is called Agency because an Indian agency was established there in 1838 to keep an eye on the local tribes, who were later moved to Kansas.
about 0:05:55The town was founded in 1843 on the site of the agency.
about 0:06:28Agency is the resting place of Chief Wapello, second in command of the Sac and Fox tribe, who is buried beside his friend General Joseph M. Street and his family.
about 0:06:36An F2 tornado tore through Agency in 2001, knocking buildings down and killing two people.
about 0:06:55The town is called Agency because an Indian agency was established there in 1838 to keep an eye on the local tribes, who were later moved to Kansas.
about 0:05:55The town was founded in 1843 on the site of the agency.
about 0:06:28Agency is the resting place of Chief Wapello, second in command of the Sac and Fox tribe, who is buried beside his friend General Joseph M. Street and his family.
about 0:06:36An F2 tornado tore through Agency in 2001, knocking buildings down and killing two people.
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"$52,604"
Comparison: "national average, usually almost $70,000". No direction stated.
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"$141,100"
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3.8 / 5 · average of 4
“Grew up there; there is not much to do but the friendly community makes up for it, with great coffee shops, concerts and theatre productions for all ages.”about 0:07:30
“Likes the cheeseburger selection in the Walmart frozen food section and enjoys walking around his house.”about 0:08:12
“The whole review is: I've worked at Applebee's for three years now.”about 0:08:37
“Very shady town: the reviewer saw an officer pull up under the Market Street bridge, drop a large black trash bag into the ditch, then stare at him for almost 20 minutes while he fished.”about 0:08:49
They met as teenagers at the bowling alley where they both worked part-time and were together all through high school. Lisa became pregnant in January 2012 and found out in February.
The trailer had one neighbour, 57-year-old Brian Tate, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and kept guns. From March 2012 the two households quarrelled. Tate complained that rubbish and a deer hide were thrown onto his land, and that rocks and animal faeces were thrown at his house; the deer hide was volleyed back and forth between the properties. Todd Caldwell responded to one call himself and noticed Tate had a shotgun on the ground nearby. Tate called the vandalism acts of terrorism, a word Caldwell found extreme.
About five minutes into the shower he heard a bang. He found Lisa on the bed with a wound to her torso, ran to the living room with his gun, found the front door open and nobody outside, then called 911 at 5.23 a.m., sobbing that his wife had been shot. Paramedics found Lisa torn apart by a single close-range shotgun blast; she and her unborn daughter, whom the family called Zoe, were dead. There was no forced entry and no sign of a struggle.
Deputies found Tate cooperative, polite and adamant that he had been in bed; his mother and brother, who lived with him, backed him up, though he slept in the garage. He showed them two shotguns and some old slugs of the same brand and colour as those later recovered, and said the guns were for defence only.
He had told Rachel he was leaving Lisa; she had split from her boyfriend in anticipation. On May 24th she texted him that he was telling Lisa that night, and he replied 'wish me luck'. His last message to her, at 1.54 p.m. on May 25th, was 'I love you'.
The next day investigators returned to the property and found a Mossberg 500 shotgun in tall grass north of the trailer, on the far side from Tate's house. It had no fingerprints and was dry despite the dew. The autopsy showed Lisa was killed by a shotgun whose fragments were consistent with a Mossberg, and none of Tate's guns matched.
The case was circumstantial and the defence blamed Tate, but the judge excluded most evidence of Tate's mental illness.
They had used no contraception and had wondered whether he was the father.
May 26, 2012 / the Techel trailer outside Agency, Iowa
As told in the episode, on 27 July 2024.
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