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The guy killed was a Bellevue antiques dealer who an extensive collection of Civil War stuff. He took in a biker guy and girlfriend to live with him. I think the biker might have even been related to the antiques dealer. I remember the biker had a drug habit and started to "borrow" some of the Civil War swords and other antiques and pawn them. When the dealer called him on it, the biker and his girlfriend killed him and cut the body up and threw most of the pieces into the Mississippi except for the head, which they put into a pail and filled with cement. They then took the pail with them to Missouri where they went to sell some more of the Civil War stuff. Apparently, the biker thought that he could not be prosecuted for murder if authorities could not produce a body.
They got caught when an antiques dealer who was a friend of the slain antiques dealer saw them selling Civil War stuff he knew the guy would never part with. The girlfriend cracked and told police the whole story in return for a lesser sentence. She may even be out now.
Bad deal. I had a couple of antique dealers say that the dead dealer had the most extensive Civil War collection in Iowa, if not the nation and was the nicest guy.
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