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Nov 2021
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The Murder of Wilma June Nissen Part 2 :...

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The identification of the Lyon County Jane Doe as Wilma June Nissen was only the first step in unraveling a complex crime; once her identity was known, investigators began to piece together who had left her in a ditch along Iowa's Highway 182, in 1978--and why. 


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