(Radio Iowa) - Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is urging Iowans to call in tips to a new cold case unit in her office.
The legislature has provided Bird's office with over half a million dollars and she'll be hiring three investigators to review the more than 400 unsolved murders or missing person cases in Iowa. Steve Ponsetto (pawn-SET-oh), a retired state trooper and Division of Criminal Investigation agent, will lead the office. He says they will review homicides and cases involving unidentified human remains as well as people who've gone missing under suspicious circumstances if local investigators have exhausted all leads.
The program will be launched July 1st when the next state budgeting year starts.