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Marion man charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder in death investigation; victims identified

RURAL MARION, Iowa (KWWL) - The Linn County Sheriff's Office have charged a Marion man with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder after three people were found dead inside an outbuilding Wednesday afternoon in rural Marion.



Victims of the crime were identified.
Luke Truesdell, 34, was taken into custody and charged with one count of attempted murder and three counts of first-degree murder. Authorities responded to a residency along East Otter Road and found four victims. Three of them were pronounced dead at the scene while a fourth was airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.



The victims who died have been identified as 44-year-old Romondus Lamar Cooper, 33-year-old Amanda Sue Parker, and 26-year-old Keonna Victoria Ryan. 34-year-old Brent Anthony Brown is in critical condition.

Investigators said the victims suffered blunt force trauma to the head. According to court documents, Truesdell was at the house when Linn County Sheriff's deputies arrived. He told detectives he hit the victims with a metal pipe.

"The suspect he confessed to the murders. He advised that he had used a large metal pipe to strike each of the victims in and about the head and face," Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner said. "The injuries that we found were consistent with him utilizing a pipe to to provide those injuries to the victims."

Given what Truesdell told them about the pipe and evidence on it, detective believe that was the murder weapon, but they are still waiting on the autopsy reports for the the three deceased individuals.

"That will give us a definitive cause of death, although, it appeared to be blunt force trauma, as a result of this pipe that was pointed out to us from the suspect," Gardner said. "Obviously it took a fair amount of strength to be able to cause injuries like that that did result in death."




The initial autopsy results themselves could come back within a few of days, but toxicology reports can take several weeks to come back.

Given the violent nature of the crime with a metal pipe, Gardner said it was a particularly brutal and gruesome crime scene.

"It was a very gruesome crime scene, even those deputies who have been around for a while and have seen deaths before," Gardner said. "You always kind of take pause when you go to something like this. It was a very brutal scene."


Detectives said Truesdell gave them several possible motives for the triple homicide including that a movie would be made about the killings.

"He did not record the the assaults," Sheriff Gardner said. "He just made mention to the deputies when they were talking about possible reasons or motives for the assaults. He mentioned that he thought it would make a good movie."

Truesdell made his initial appearance in court on Thursday morning. He is due back in court on June 14 for a preliminary hearing. Truesdell's bond has been set at $4 million.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office is still investigating the incident, however at this point they do not anticipate making any further arrests.
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And this is why we need the right to carry absolute. Sometimes the good guy needs an unfair advantage over a bad guy.

Reading between the lines, when they mentioned strength, it sounds like he was hopped up on something. They didnt mention why this guy was with those people but sounds like it’s not a stretch to guess home invasion?
 
MuntCuffin said:
Were the victims konked out on heroin? Who would watch some dude beat someone with a pipe and think "yeah, I'm gonna sit right here and see how this plays out"?
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:looks around: well, I did watch the video of the Mexican cartel cut a couple guys heads off with a pos chainsaw and a dull knife plus a bunch of faces of death movies. So there is that.
 
Landslide said:
:looks around: well, I did watch the video of the Mexican cartel cut a couple guys heads off with a pos chainsaw and a dull knife plus a bunch of faces of death movies. So there is that.
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ya, no
I got one scene in and was done
that was disturbing to me
 
BigBurt said:
And this is why we need the right to carry absolute. Sometimes the good guy needs an unfair advantage over a bad guy.

Reading between the lines, when they mentioned strength, it sounds like he was hopped up on something. They didnt mention why this guy was with those people but sounds like it’s not a stretch to guess home invasion?
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I bet whatever he was hopped up on is illegal.

We should make it more illegal-er so this won't happen again.
 
45acp said:
I bet whatever he was hopped up on is illegal.

We should make it more illegal-er so this won't happen again.
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Let’s bring back DARE and make him go through it again! 6 months ACOD sounds good as long as he writes a 5 page essay on ways to say NO to drugs no presents it to the class
 
Having difficulty finding pics of the deceased because news websites suck cock.

Romondus, Keonna, and Amanda

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MuntCuffin said:
Were the victims konked out on heroin? Who would watch some dude beat someone with a pipe and think "yeah, I'm gonna sit right here and see how this plays out"?
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This was one of my first thoughts. How was he able to beat 3 to death and one almost to death? They were all relatively young, you would think at the very least one of them would have ran away.
 
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