Nathan James Gilmore, 23, is accused of murdering a woman in April 2021 then placing her head on a stick in Iowa's Greenbelt River Trail Park, police said.
A teen passerby discovered what was later determined to be Angela Nicole Bradbury’s skull “placed on a stick” in the park months after her disappearance.
Mason City, IA- A 23-year-old man from Osage is under arrest, charged with decapitating a Mason City women who went missing last year. Radio Iowa reports that 29-year-old Angela Bradbury of Mason City was last seen in April of 2021. Three months later, a teenager found a human skull on a stick in a park in Mitchell County. In February of this year, Bradbury's family reported her missing. They provided DNA samples and dental records which confirmed the skull was Bradbury's. Nathan James Gilmore of Osage has been charged with Bradbury's murder. Court records indicate investigators found a drawing of a satanic goat's head in Gilmore's living room. There were numbers on the drawing that coincide with the date Bradbury disappeared as well as the GPS coordinates of the park where her skull and other remains were found.