Judith Kaylene Pleas, 17, was reported missing to the Council Bluffs Police Department in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 10, 1973.

On October 14, 1973, a farmer located the remains of a female in a cornfield outside Council Bluffs’ city limits (Crescent) and contacted the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, who in turn notified the Council Bluffs Police Department.The victim was later identified as that of missing teen Judith Pleas, and an investigation concluded cause of death was strangulation.

Judith Kaylene Pleas was born May 2, 1956. She was buried at Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Mills County, Iowa 

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