Arrest at 18900 BLOCK OF 151 AND REA RD on 11/11/2025 12:15 AM

Name

Patricia Spahn

Missing Age

23

Est. Current Age

74

Last Seen

East Dubuque, IL on 02/11/1975

Physical Description

Race: White Ethnicity: Caucasian Gender: Female Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 5' 3" - 5' 4" Weight: 110 - 115 lbs

Case Number

MP32711

Name

Paul Knockel

Age

53

Cause of Death

Missing

Info

On thursday, oct. 12, 2023, dubuque police responded to a report of a submerged vehicle in the mississippi river. Officials identified the vehicle as a 1981 mercury zephyr and stated the car belonged to paul joseph knockel, who’d been reported missing from dubuque on nov. 26, 1990. N november 1990, the dubuque telegraph herald reported that knockel last had contact with family members on monday, november 12 and that knockel’s car was last seen by a family member the morning of november 13, parked along u.S. Route 151 less than one mile east of the dubuque-wisconsin bridge near the “welcome to wisconsin” sign on the roadway’s south side.Knockel, a lifelong bachelor with no children, missed his usual thanksgiving dinner with relatives and they reported him missing the following monday after he failed to show up at a job at the swiss colony mail-order gift warehouse in monroe, wisconsin, dubuque police told the telegraph herald. Police also said knockel was last seen friday, november 17, driving along a highway in grant county, wisconsin.

Agency

Iowa