Knife. Today marks exactly one year since a man raped and killed a 66yearold woman in dubuque. And at seven oclock tonight, family and friends will be gathering to remember the victim, nancy krapfl. Police say krapfl was out for a morning walk last september when Helmon Betwell beat her and raped her. He was 19 at the time. After his arrest, police say betwell told them he attacked the woman because had Nothing Better charges of first degree murder, first degree sexual abuse, and burglary. He and krapfl did not know each other. A judge ruled earlier this year that betwell is not mentally competent to stand trial right now. Hes still in Police Custody as he awaits a hearing on his mental state. We want to remind you that whenever you see news happening, we encourage you to call us on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. Johnson county will soon go from one lane to none. Structural issues on the highway 965 bridge forced it down to a single lane. On tuesday, it will close completely
Outside wednesday morning he waited for my dad to come out ofof the e use, he waited out here. When my dad came out, he and my dad had a verbal whatever. Um they started arguin he chased my dad down the block and stabbed him down the block and my dad made it back to the house to get help. Mace was taken to Mercy Medical where he passed away due to injuries. Sioux city police aprehended wanatee 10 hours after responding to the inital call. Wannatee is being held at the woodbubu county jail on Second Degree murder charges. Although, maces family can breathe a sigh of relief that wanatee is off the streets they hold on to the good memories of a beloved father and grandfather. He was a great guy, he was a great dad. Everybody liked him, if you met him, you would have liked him. He had an awesome smile. Awesome smile. And um, hed help anybody, he wasnt perfect, but he was a good person, he had a good heart. And its a tragedy. For christina abc 9 learned that wanatee was out on bond for a ch
If they need help then, better to have the help there then not need it, to not have the help and to need it. The bill would require the home team at High School Varsity games to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The goal of this bill is to increase quality of injury assesments by using professional medical providers to decrease the number of lifelong debilitating injury. The estimated cost for these trainers is between 2thousand to 5thousand dollars annuallymoney that would come from a proposed increase in state school funding. The superintendent at westwood thinks that that number may actually be a little higher. Theres gonna be high demand for those people, so cost is going to go up. I think its going to end up being a lot higher than that. The cost however is not the only thing to consider but also the availability. Its difficult, the cost is high and the availabilty of certified people that could come down and take care of our athletes an
Clinical research, were learning more about the human body than we ever knew before. But, theres relatively little explanation about why, for some people, the five senses are intertwined. Jenna tells us more in our top story. Jenna what color is wednesday . What do you smell when you hear your Favorite Song . Those questions might not make sense to you. But for a person with synesthesia, the world is experienced in a completely different way. More on two families livivg with this phenomenon. In tonightht special yourhealth matters. Soren peterson grew up assuming everyone knew that the number two is lime gen. While you and i just see black numbers on a page,or this 8th grader, algebra homework is alive with color. Soren says, for blue one and a maroon three. It wasnt until his parents caught part of a tv program about the soren realized what he experieced was different. Soren says, i said, oh, i see like that right now we dont exactly understandwhatats happening in ur brain or why cert
Jenna and im jenna rehnstrom. Iowa is trying to keep up with neighboring states. But when it comes to how fast you can go on the roads. Not everyone agrees that we should be pushing the limit. Tim lawmakers in des moinin are cocoidering bumping up speeds on state highghys. Abc9s jess pluehas more on the pros and cons. Jess that right. A bill has been sent to lawmakers proposing an increse in road speeds. More specifically, an increase from 55mph to 65mph on two lane highways throughout iowa. But while many are excited to quench their need for speed, others are more cautious about the potential increase. If all the roads were l le this, then yes, speeds could be a little higher, but woododry county only has three of these roads, says officer todd wingert. The roads officer todd wingert is talking about are twolane highways in iowa. On tuesd, a bill went into the hands of lawmakers to increase speeds from 60 to 65 mph. Gary worthan proposed this bill, keeping the state of iowa in check w