2003. Investigators made an extensive search through a rural farm and salvage yard on highway 21near irving after a tip lead them there. Police say the owner of the salvage yard was purks cousin. Police dogs were used to search the scene eventually finding bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of womens clothing. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with onkonskis father during the time of the search in 2003. Jerry okonski the best thing that can happen is that sh but we dont expect that to happen, we think shes dead. And so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a and now sixteen years laterthe family awaking to a new possibility of finding out just what happened to cora purk is serving time in federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. He is set to be released from prison in april. Police have not give any indiciation as to whether hes still a suspect in the investigation. If
Right now. In the 30s to the mid 40s. But we may not climb too much more today with north winds at 5 to 15 mph. They will be mainly 1015 mph will gust higher for much of the day before dying down this evening. While cooler than we have been seeing, this is winds die down and will lead to a rather chilly night tonight. Ill have more coming up. Breaking news this morning. Waterloo firefighters rescue a man after a fire. It started in an abandoned Apartment Building. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with the latest. Im at the 900 block of commercial street and waterloo firefighters confirm a fire started in this abandoned three this morning. They say the fire is now out and no one was injured. Take a look at this video right here. Firefighters rescued a man who and down a ladder. The man said he believes other people were in the building he time the fire started. But firefighters have not found anyone else at this time. Waterloo police say this is an but they do occasionally
While cooler than we have been seeing, this is actually closer to where we should be for veterans day. In the upper 40s to mid 50s. Gusty winds die down and will lead to a rather chilly night tonight. Ill have more coming up. Waterloo firefighters pull a man from a fire. Now the man they saved is in jail. Chad bruce now faces trespassing charges kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with more on started a fire accidentally shortly after three this morning. In the abandoned Apartment Building behind me. No one was hurt in the fire but as you can see from this video. Firefighters did have to rescue a man named chad bruce. Who was trapped on the second floor. Bruce was then arrested for owned. Looked like it was ready to be live in waterloo, Amanda Gilbert, news 7 kwwl. We did some digging this morning. According to county tax records, the building was built in 1906. The property is currently listed on the city of waterloo website as for sale. According to the Black Hawk County j
Set the house on fire as well but lining the doors to the building with gasoline. Neighbors are stunned. Your reaction someone would have set this . Im surprised. You know. Its a pretty quiet neighborhood most of the time, so its i wouldnt expect it here. Reporter troopers along with everett arson investigators collected hours at the scene for hours. Rico says he has no clue why anyone would do this, he is thankful everybody is okay. Were definitely to be alive but at the time of day if i would have sat there and paniked im going to die, i knew what to do, get us out the house, call the fires department to put it out. Reporter arson investigators telling us moments ago theyre offering reward money for anyone that can give them some information that will lead to an arrest in connection with the case. Again right now theyre help. The good news is nobody was hurt here but people are baffled by who would do this in the first place. Live in everett, steve cooper, 7 news. 7 news turning to t
Limits for all elected officials. Termresident already has limits. Your governors, senators, mayors, city council, dog catcher, tax collector. Are you in favor of term limits, yes or no . Here are the numbers. Host you can also reach out to us by social media. Host i want to show you some of the numbers from the recently released gallup poll. They ask americans support for establishing term limits for federal lawmakers. Suppose on election day you could vote for key issues as well as candidates. Or againstote for the number of Terms Congress and senate can serve . Nationally among adults those voting for term limits are in the 75 range. Those who say they would vote against term limits, 21 . Those who had no opinion, 5 . Breaking it down among political parties, republicans, those voting for, who say they would vote for term limits, 82 of republicans questioned in this gallup poll, 82 say they would vote for term limits. 15 say they would vote against. 3 say they have no opinion. Indep