Iowa Almanac
Iowa Almanac -- Thursday, December 05, 2024
Angels at rest. More from the Iowa Almanac in a moment. It wouldn't be Christmas without Camp Courageous Fruit Cakes, and they're now available in stores across Iowa and at Camp Courageous.org/fruitcakes. Camp Courageous Fruit Cakes are generously filled with cherries, nuts, pineapple, coconut, and just the right amount of cake batter to hold it all together. Best of all, proceeds go to support Camp Courageous near Monticello, Iowa. For a list of stores or to order online, go to Camp Courageous.org/fruitcakes. It's Every Parents Nightmare, a call that says your child is missing. On July 13, 2012, cousins Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins were being watched by their grandmother in Evansdale, a city of about 4,700 residents in Black Hawk County. Around the noon hour, the girls went for a bike ride. They were seen shortly before 1 p.m. on their bikes near Myers Lake, a popular fishing and recreation area. That was the last time the girls were seen. When they did not return from the bike ride, people began looking for the girls. Both their bikes and Elizabeth's purse were found on a trail on the southeast corner of the lake later than afternoon, but there was no sign of the girls. In the early afternoon of December 5, 2012, nearly five months after the girls disappeared, hunters found their bodies in the Seven Bridges Park, a remote wildlife area near Redlyn in Bremer County, some 25 miles from where the girls were last seen. Early in 2013, officials renamed the Trail and Park at Myers Lake to honor the girls' memory and those of others in the area who were killed. It's now called Angels Park and a small island at the lake is Angels Park Memorial Island. While rumors and theories are abundant, the identity of the person or persons who abducted and killed the girls is still not known. In order to help the investigation, how the girls were killed has never been released publicly. The case of two missing Black Hawk County girls became a murder investigation. When the bodies of eight-year-old Elizabeth Collins and 10-year-old Lyric Cook were found on this date in 2012, and that's Iowa Almanac for December 5, follow us on Twitter @IowaAlmanac. Until tomorrow, I'm Jeff Stein.