Jan. 27, 2026
Chapter 129: Small Town Silence-The Murder of Corinne Perry
When 17-year-old Corinne Perry disappeared from Creston, Iowa, she seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving behind only an abandoned car and carefully folded clothes. The mystery of what happened in the hours before her death and just who was responsible has evaded investigators for decades. This is the story of a missing girl, which hit too close to home, so soon after another young boy went missing, leaving a community reeling.
Anyone with information about the murder of Corinne Perry is asked to contact:
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010, email dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us,
or contact the Creston Police Department at (641) 782-8402.
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Cavallier, A. (2020, April 10). Decades-old murder of Iowa teen in 1983 remains unsolved. Yahoo News. https://www.yahoo.com/news/decades-old-murder-iowa-teen-171200453.htmlCorinne Elaine Perry (1965-1983) - Find a grave. . . (1965, August 28). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143319127/corinne-elaine-perryCoulter, C. (2025, June 7). She went to the laundromat alone — then a man followed her out, and she was never seen alive again. People.com. https://people.com/corrine-perry-iowa-teen-vanished-laundromat-11748033Gene “didn’t run away. . .his birthday was coming.” (1984, September 2). The Des Moines Register, 6A.Heinlein, G. (1984, November 4). Young hunters find remains of Corinne Perry. The Des Moines Register, 3B.Iowa Cold Cases, Inc. (2025, December 13). Corinne Perry | Iowa Cold cases. Iowa Cold Cases. https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/corinne-perry/National Missing Children’s Day | About Missing Children’s Day | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (n.d.). Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/nmcd/about-missing-childrens-dayO’Brien, C. (2024, December 3). The Murder of Corinne Perry. Medium. https://medium.com/@Charlie_OBrien/the-murder-of-corinne-perry-e02aa50ff8dbOffer reward for teen. (1983, May 10). The Daily Reporter, 3.Pastor conducts prayer vigil for missing girl. (1983, May 15). The Des Moines Register, 8B.Perry, C., Creston Police Dept., & Iowa DCI. (1983). HOMICIDE VICTIM. https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/media/cms/ICC_Playing_Card_9_clubs_5DE29B15A4BA0.pdfRaffensperger, G. (1984, February 6). Search goes on for girl missing nearly 10 months. The Des Moines Register, 3A.Santiago, F. (1983, July 3). Creston folks gather to find young woman who is missing. The Des Moines Register, 5B.Santiago, F. (1984a, November 5). Officers seek death cause. The Des Moines Register, 2A.Santiago, F. (1984b, November 7). Cause of Perry death may remain a mystery. The Des Moines Register, 2A.Shaw, B. (1984, September 18). Call about missing daughter mystifies, unnerves Iowa mother. The Des Moines Register, 2M.Woman still searching for justice in sister Corinne Perry’s murder nearly 40 years after she was killed after leaving Iowa laundromat. (2020, April 11). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/woman-still-searching-justice-sister-corinne-perry-s-murder-nearly-n1181291
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Network INDEP Podcasts with the Twist. Hello, Hello, Welcome to
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the next chapter in the Book of the Dead. Just
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shy of. Two years after the nineteen eighty two disappearance
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of twelve year old Johnny Gosh while delivering newspapers in
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West de Moines, Iowa, two other teenagers vanished, one another male,
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also a newspaper delivery boy named Eugene Martin in nineteen
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eighty four, and in nineteen eighty three, a teenage girl
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sixty six miles away from Johnny's last known sighting seventeen
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years old, beautiful with an incredibly vibrant personality. She did
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her laundry one April night, placed her clothes in her car,
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and then she was gone. Over four decades later, her
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her case has yet to be solved. While likely not
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connected to each other, it's unbelievably unsettling that three people
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under the age of eighteen all vanished in such a
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short amount of time, All of their cases are unsolved,
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and only one family has been able to bury their child.
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This is the murder of Kurinn Perry. Corinn Elaine Perry
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was born on August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty five to
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Donald and Barbara Perry at a Libyan Air Force base
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where her father was stationed with the Air Force. Kurin
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was the youngest of four children, all girls, and after
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many years of moving around for Donald's job, the family
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ultimately settled in Creston, Iowa after his retirement. Growing up,
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not only was she described as beautiful with long, strawberry
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blonde hair and gray eyes, Korinn had a big personality
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and she was incredibly intelligent. Her father said that Karin
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had grown up with the love of books endote. She
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liked to dream, to make believe she never left home
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except to maybe visit her sisters or to go to
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a slumber party. Her older sister, Letitia told Dateline quote
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she had everything going for her. She was this vivacious,
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smart girl who loved being on stage. That was her thing.
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When Karin was a young teenager, Donald and Barbara divorced,
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and Karin ended up living with her mother, who was
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a home health aid for Adams County, while Donald moved
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about fifteen minutes away to Kent. As she got older,
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she loved makeup and she was very close with her
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older sisters. Karin would go on to attend Creston High School,
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where she not only excelled in her classes, but she
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thrived in theater, acting in several school plays and participating
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in her school's mime troop. She also competed in various
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speech competitions, winning awards for speech and acting. By the
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time nineteen eighty three year old Around Cournn was seventeen
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years old and in her senior year of high school,
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Her sister, Letitia nineteen, had recently moved out and had
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enrolled in classes at Southwest Community College, according to NBC,
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but she came home frequently to spend time with her
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younger sister. This was a very exciting time for Curin.
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In early April, just a month away from graduation, she
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had gotten word that she had earned a scholarship to
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Simpson College in Iowa, and she was planning on double
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majoring in psychology and acting. By all accounts, of which
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there are an alarming few, April seventeenth, nineteen eighty three
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was an ordinary day for Curin. While there is so
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little information on this case and on current in general,
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what is known is that on that Sunday, Kurin had
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laundry to do. At around six ten in the even
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she said goodbye to Barbara and Letitia, who was visiting,
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grabbed her clothes and pursed, and took the car she
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shared with her mom to Highlander Laundromat, a coin operated
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laundry facility on Highway thirty four. As anyone who's ever
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don laundry at a laundromat knows, you're usually there for
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a couple of hours, and the time spent at Highlanders
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was as one would expect whenness is reported seeing Korin
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washing her clothing and then folding it when it was
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dry in an adjacent room. After which she left some
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time between eight thirty and nine pm, according to NBC.
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As the hours ticked by, Letitia and Barbara grew concerned,
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Karin had been gone far longer than expected and it
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wasn't like her. Letitia said quote When Karin didn't come
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home that night, we started to worry. It got so late.
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her friends all responded with they hadn't seen Korin. That
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concern and worried turned to panic. The crest and police
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were called soon after, but the police were less than helpful.
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Though her family didn't want to believe that something terrible
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had happened and that maybe Kuran had been driving around
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and the police would come across her and let her
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know her mother was worried, the police were unconcerned. Letitia
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said of the police's initial response, quote, it was really frustrating.
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I just remember getting really upset with each question they asked.
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We were wasting time and I just wanted to find
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my sister. That night, the police dismissed the report of
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Kurin being missing, reportedly believing her to be a runaway,
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and critical hours were wasted by that dismissal. That could
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have been used to look for her, especially when no
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one in Karin's life believed that she would have just
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up and left with no word. The next day, found
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in the parking lot of the laundromat was Curran's car.
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While it's unknown who discovered it, what is known is
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that inside, clearly visible was Current's clothing, folded and neatly
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placed in a box on the seat. What was not
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located in or near the car was her purse. Even
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though the discovery of the car strongly supported the idea
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that something had happened to Kurin and she hadn't just
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left of her own volition, the fact was, even if
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the police took the missing person's report seriously that first day,
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most law enforcement agencies in the state were required to
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wait seventy two hours before asking the Iowa Division of
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Criminal Investigation or DCI, for assistance if foul play was
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suspected to be involved. Sometime shortly after the car was discovered,
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investigators began to look for any sign of Current or
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any evidence as to where she could be, and they
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spoke with witnesses who had been at the laundrymat at
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the time Current was there. A couple of witnesses were
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called seeing her finishing up her laundry, and they they
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also noticed a man leaving shortly after her. According to
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the Des Moines Register, the man was described as being
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in his early to mid twenties, approximately six feet tall,
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clean shaven, and wearing glasses. Investigators did look for this
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man but were never able to find him, and it
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is unknown of his departure right after Karin was a coincidence,
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or if he was somehow involved in her disappearance. About
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a week after she disappeared, on a bridge about nine
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miles away, midway between Kent and Lennox, the missing handbag
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was found. Inside was Karin's license, her makeup, and her glasses,
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all of which were on damaged. Apparently, the bag had
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been found by someone soon after Karin's disappearance, but they
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didn't realize the significance until reading the paper. According to
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the Des Moines Register, Barbara believed the purse had been
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placed on the bridge rather than tossed, due to its
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contents not being broken. But notably missing from the bag
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were photos of Currance friends, which she carried with her
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quite frequently. The discovery of the makeup and glasses was
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a particular concern to Curran's family. Corinn, first of all,
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had bad eyesight, and while she could get by all
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right without them, her family did not believe that she
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could go very long without meeting them, and this was
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her only pair Carin. Also, as I mentioned, loved makeup
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and was always wearing it. Latitia said when her sister's
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belongings were found, quote, my little sister was all about
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the way she looked. She loved makeup and never left
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the house without makeup, and her purse while it was
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filled with her makeup. To find that purse with her
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makeup just proves that she didn't run away. Now, there
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was some speculation that with the purse being found midway
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to Kent, that perhaps Karin was going to visit her father,
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but she would have no reason to leave her car
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behind to do so while he was only a fifteen
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minute drive away. To walk all the way to Kent
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from Creston took over three hours. No one would choose
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to take that walk at night, especially when they had
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a working vehicle available to them. As the weeks passed,
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searches were conducted in nearby areas looking for any sign
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of Krinn and the body of water that ran under
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the bridge. The West Platte River was searched multiple times,
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with the focus being downriver in case Karin had fallen
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in and was swept downstream dawn. For his part, walked
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and drove over miles of back roads to look for
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his daughter, searching empty buildings and ditches, as well as
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handing out countless flyers and newspaper clippings to anyone who
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would take them. Also formed was the nonprofit Kurinn Perry
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Support Group Incorporated, comprised of her family and friends, as
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well as community members who gathered weekly to strategize on
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different ways to get the word out about her case
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and places to look for her. Of the support group,
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Barbara pass He told the Des Moines Register quote, I'm thrilled.
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The first night we had the meeting, I had no
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idea who'd come. Then they started streaming in they did come.
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The support group was inspired by the Goshes, who also
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formed their own nonprofit in the wake of their son's disappearance,
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and they offered help and support to the Paris after
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Kurin had got missing. Barbara hoped that the nonprofit would
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encourage donations to come in to assist in the funding
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of a private investigator that had been hired in order
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to help find Kurin. Regarding the hiring of the private investigator,
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who was never named in any publications during the investigation,
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there was a bit of a minor discourse surrounding the
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idea outsource help. Kristin Cole Brown, the spokesperson for New
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York's nonprofit Fine Children, Incorporated, said it's never considered a
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bad idea, but warned of possibilities of being exploited, saying, quote,
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there's absolutely nothing wrong with parents asking for the help
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of private investigators. We always encourage parents' participation because they
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are the most motivated. But the problem is is that
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they are so vulnerable to exploitation. There are so few
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investigators that have a proven track record. Not so fond
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of the idea, though, was the recently retired chief of
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the IOWA DCI, Gerald Shanahan, who said, quote, work within
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the system, stay with public authorities. I have no objection
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to private investigators. Any help would be helpful, but people
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end up paying twice with taxes for the police and
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money for the investigators. Barber's stance, though, was that while
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she really believed the local investigators as well as the
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DCI were doing a wonderful job in working their hardest
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to find her daughter, the extra help was absolutely needed.
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In addition to raising funds for the private investigator, the
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organization also raised money to help fund a reward to
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anyone that could find current. By the time Karin had
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been missing for two months, the reward money stood at
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one hundred and thirty eight dollars and fifty five cents,
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and this was later bolstered by another one hundred and
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three dollars and fifty five cents from the Cromwell United
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Church of Price Bible School. This money was in addition
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to the two thousand, five hundred dollars that the family
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raised for a reward after the third week with the
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help from the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Creston.
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According to the Daily Reporter, the group also planned dinners
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and dances to assist in raising more funds. Karin's family
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did hold meetings every week. The room filled with photos
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of Kurn and excerpts from her poetry, as well as
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fake flowers to symbolize that her loved one's hope would
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never die. Letitia also faithfully wrote down all the goings
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on around Creston, which was a very small town, in
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a notebook, so that when Korn came home, she could
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be caught up on all the small town gossip, who
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got married, who divorced, and who moved where. One month
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after Carind disappeared, Iowa Governor Terry Branstead conditionally approved a
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proposal to remove the seventy two hour hold that some
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agencies were required to wait before seeking help from DCI
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in missing persons cases was suspected foul play. This was
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done in the hopes that it would prevent delays in
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other cases, as it had in currents. This came from
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pressure from the Perry family after they were vocal in
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their frustration that investigators did not take their original report
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seriously hindering the first critical hours in the investigation. Just
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a few weeks later, on May twenty fifth, Branstead declared
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the day as being National Missing Children's Day. The parents
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of Johnny Gosh, Barbara, and Letitia, as well as the
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directors of Child find attended the proclamation. This was done
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in conjunction with President Ronald Reagan's own proclamation on the
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same day in memory of six year old Eton Pats
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who disappeared from a New York street corner on May
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twenty fifth, nineteen seventy nine. According to the Office of
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Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the day is dedicated to
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quote encouraging parents, guardians and caretakers, and others concerned with
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the well being of children to make child safety a priority.
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Ten months into the investigation, by February of nineteen eighty four,
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no headway had been made in Kurin's case, though the
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