Crime at 2400 BLOCK OF PARK AVE on 09/04/2025 3:13 PM

Type: Other

Date: 09/04/2025 3:13 PM

Description: ALL OTHER. Event #: 1536325. Agency: IA0770300 - Des Moines Police Department. Disclaimer: This address provided is approximate based on calls for service data

Address: 2400 BLOCK OF PARK AVE, Des Moines, IA

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Area Missing Persons

missing-person-record__Blair

Name

Leonard Blair

Missing Age

20

Est. Current Age

33

Last Seen

Des Moines, IA on 11/24/2012

Physical Description

Race: Black Ethnicity: Gender: Male Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Height: 5'9" Weight: 180 lbs

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Area Cold Cases

cold-case-record__Bell

Name

Effie Bell

Age

46

Cause of Death

Homicide

Info

At the end of the day on friday, march 18, 1966, effie bell (known as “cupie” to her family) got off work from her job at mcray cosmetics factory in madrid, iowa, just as she’d done since 1958 when first hired by the cosmetics manufacturer. There was no telling what the weekend had in store for the wife and mother of three, or what her husband, frank bell, sr., 49, might have in mind. He’d just quit his job at the john deere des moines works plant the previous day.

Agency

Iowa

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