Pottawattamie Co. authorities provide update on arrest in 1983 death of UNO student from Iran
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Posted at 9:05 AM, May 06, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-06 18:12:12-04
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. (AP and KMTV) â Authorities have arrested a 67-year-old registered sex offender from Nebraska in the 1983 slaying of an Iranian exchange student. Bud Leroy Christensen is being held in the Douglas County Jail in Omaha awaiting transfer to the Pottawattamie County jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on a first-degree murder charge.
He is a suspect in the death of Firozeh Dehghanpour, whose body was found on Aug. 14, 1983, under a bridge north of Council Bluffs.