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Twenty-five years later, Copper Dollar murders remain unsolved
Twenty-five years ago today, 17-year-old Melisa Lynn Gregory and 20-year-old Steven Joseph Fisher were found brutally murdered northwest of Newton at the Copper Dollar Ranch. No arrests have ever been made in connection with the case. No murder weapon was ever found. But the Copper Dollar Ranch homicides have not been forgotten — not by local authorities, not by Newton residents and certainly not by family members of the victims, many of whom still reside in the area.
Today, the Copper Dollar Ranch no longer stands. Those who served as sheriff and medical examiner for Jasper County at the time of the murders are deceased. The man who found the victims died of cancer a few years ago. An Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent once as
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