

Utah's Lion King Premieres Monday, December 12 at 9/8c on ID.With few or no witnesses, no CCTV and oftentimes a dead phone signal, these can be the hardest cases for cops to crack.
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Set in an epic landscape where traditions of blood and vengeance run deep as the canyons and murder is still solved the old school way, this gripping series reveals the most compelling murders committed in some of the wildest and most remote towns in the western US. *New Series* Premieres Monday, December 12 at 9/8c on ID The programs below will premiere on Investigation Discovery as follows: Viewers can enjoy their favorite shows anytime, anywhere on discovery+, the definitive non-fiction streaming service, boasting the largest library of true crime. Investigation Discovery (ID) is the leading crime and justice network on television. New entries include "Murder in the Wicked West" on Monday, December 12 and "Real Time Crime" on Tuesday, December 13. She moved to Coralville in 1981, the year she was killed, to take a job as a nurse at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She had been working for about two weeks when she failed to report for work, the Associated Press reported at the time.ĭodd lived in Oakdale, about a mile from where Klotzbach was found, court documents showed.Discovery+ and ID Highlights - Weeks of December 5 and December 12 Klotzbach grew up in Independence and graduated from Wartburg College in Waverly.

When he was charged, Dodd, who was 45 at the time, was serving a life prison sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Des Moines, according to Register archives.ĭodd was convicted of killing Klotzbach in September 2003 and sentenced to a second life prison term. Then in 2002, the DNA samples were resubmitted because of scientific advances and came back with a conclusive match to Dodd. In 1996, when DNA testing became available, samples from the victim and the suspect were compared and came back as a match, but because of scientific limitations at the time, it was not enough to be conclusive.įor years, detectives were convinced their suspect, Richard Douglas Dodd, was responsible for Klotzbach's death, but prosecutors declined to file charges because they felt their case was not strong enough. Investigators worked the case for more than 18 months, and it led them to Mount Hood in Oregon to locate bullets fired from a weapon associated with their primary suspect. It was said to be the first murder in Coralville's history, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. Three days later, her partially nude body was found in a vacant cornfield in a rural part of the city, north of Interstate Highway 80 and west of Highway 218. She had been raped and shot once in the head officials described her killing as an execution. Her arms were bound behind her back with tape and her eyes were covered with tape, the Register reported at the time. 20, 1981, after she failed to show at work. The show, “On the Case with Paula Zahn,” will explore the murder of 22-year-old Vicki Lynn Klotzbach and the 22 years it took investigators, with the help of strides in DNA testing, to win a conviction. The episode, “A Murder in Coralville,” will air at 9 p.m., the city said in a statement. The 1981 slaying of a woman in Coralville, which took more than 20 years to solve, will be featured on a true crime drama show Sunday on the Investigation Discovery channel.
