Breaking Badder

Mason City, Iowa, is in Cerro Gordo County in the north central part of the state, about two hours from Des Moines, with a population in 1993 of 27,385. details of the account remain covered until revealed He came from Britt, a small town outside the Mason City area, and was a skinny, blonde, freckled boy with big glasses who loved books and was good at mathematics and science. He graduated from high school in 1991 with a scholarship to North Iowa Area Community College and dreamed of becoming a pharmaceutical lawyer. His father, Jim, was a criminal and bank robber. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

His best friend since first grade was Tim Cutkomp. details of the account remain covered until revealed They produced several pounds at a time and used two mules, Terry DeGeis, 32, a heavy equipment operator, and Greg Nicholson, a meth user and dealer, to carry the drug back to northeast Iowa. A few runs brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Early in 1993 Mason City police found nearly 150 grams of pure methamphetamine and $5,000 in Nicholson's house. He agreed to cooperate and wear a wire. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

Nicholson had moved in with Lori Duncan, 31, a Navy veteran and single mother of two girls in Mason City. Lori knew him as a man in recovery and did not know he was a witness. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On July 7, 1993 she bought a 9mm handgun about five miles from her house.

this part of the story is covered for now On July 25 Lori's mother, Marge Milbrath, drove past and saw Lori wave. Amber, six, was playing across the street and came home around three for a picnic. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed All four were forced into a car at gunpoint and driven about ten minutes to a wooded area outside town, where a grave had already been dug.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He came back for the girls and she heard more shots. All four were buried in the same hole, one on top of another. On July 26 Marge noticed the drapes drawn and the cars parked chaotically. She and her husband let themselves in with a key. The house was quiet and untouched, with an unfinished dinner on the table, but Lori, Candy and Amber were gone. A note in Lori's handwriting said that Phyllis had to leave on short notice and would be in touch. Marge reported them missing. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He beat, tortured and shot DeGeis and buried him separately. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now A third partner, Dan Cobain, was a confidential informant. On February 7, 1996 police searched the house and seized the lab, chemicals, notes and books, including books on binding and gagging prisoners. details of the account remain covered until revealed Cutkomp agreed to cooperate and wore a wire while they were on pretrial release. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

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Police used the maps, sonar and dogs. After three days they found Nicholson, Lori, Candy and Amber in one hole, Nicholson on top and the two girls at the bottom. Amber was still in her swimsuit, Candy in her sundress, and a T-shirt was pulled over one girl's face. The adults had been bound, gagged and shot multiple times; each girl had been shot once in the back of the head. Half a mile away they found DeGeis, face down in a shallow grave, beaten, tortured and shot, his skull fragmented. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed The remains were withheld from the families until June 2004. Lori and her daughters were buried together in one white casket after a service at their church, with Elvis Presley's "Peace in the Valley" played and a 21-gun salute at the grave.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The defence argued there was no forensic evidence. this part of the story is covered for now

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His last meal was a large pepperoni pizza, a two-litre bottle of Coke and breadsticks from Pizza Hut, costing $33.11, and his final words were Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "Heaven-Haven" and a Hail Mary. this part of the story is covered for now