May 29, 2011. Florence, Kentucky. After missing their morning church service, 74-year old Bill Stephenson and his 74-year old wife, Peggy Stephenson, are found murdered inside their condo. Their causes of death are listed as blunt force trauma and sharp force trauma and while few details about the crime scene are released to the public, it’s reported that the victims’ bodies and a number of items in the condo were moved around and staged in a specific fashion in order to send some sort of message. It’s believed that the killer remained at the scene for hours after committing the murders and even though an unidentified DNA profile is found there, it is never matched to anyone and the crime remains unsolved.
July 30, 2011. Norwalk, Iowa. A fire breaks out at the rural home of 79-year old Bill Wood and his 72-year old wife, Kay Wood, and burns their residence to the ground. After the fire is put out, Bill’s charred body is found at the scene and it turned out he was shot to death, but there is no sign of Kay anywhere and the couple’s pick-up truck is missing. The abandoned truck is soon found 170 miles away in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Kansas City, Missouri. While witnesses report having seen a white middle-aged man near the truck, he cannot be identified and Kay is never found.
if you have any information about the murders of Bill and Peggy Stephenson, please contact the Boone County Sheriff’s Office at (859) 334-8496. if you have any about the Bill and Kay Wood case, please contact the Warren County Sheriff’s Office at (515) 961-1122 or the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (641) 342-6263.
Additional Reading:
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_and_Peggy_Stephenson
https://cdn.unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/46-Condo-Killings-.pdf?x36184
https://www.fox19.com/story/14747764/sheriffs-investigate-elderly-couples-death/
https://www.wlwt.com/article/police-have-killer-s-dna-determined-time-of-death-in-couple-s-slaying/3524741
https://www.fox19.com/story/25638081/bill-peggy-stephenson-couples-murder-remains-unsolved/
https://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/cold-cases-dna-but-no-suspect-in-stephenson-double-murder-in-florence
https://www.wlwt.com/article/daughter-still-pleading-for-answers-in-nky-couples-brutal-slaying/20878864
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/accused/2020/08/26/backstory-stephenson-slayings-too-bizarre-believe-detective-says/3436127001/
https://www.fox19.com/2021/05/27/investigators-revealing-new-information-year-anniversary-couples-murder-approaches/
https://www.boonecountyky.org/government_administration/county_government/sheriff/stephenson_murder_case.php
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2020/09/25/no-justice-decade-later-in-stephenson-murders
https://www.the-sun.com/news/9303347/stephenson-murders-linked-delphi-snapchat-richard-allen/
https://charleyproject.org/case/kaidena-lozelle-wood
https://www.newspapers.com/image/131607884/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/108751813/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/108766031/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/132317102/
https://www.kcci.com/article/mystery-behind-couple-s-death-disappearance-continues/6895215
https://who13.com/news/four-year-anniversary-of-unsolved-warren-county-murder-mystery/
https://www.kcci.com/article/5-years-later-investigators-narrow-search-in-deadly-mystery-1/6922131
https://kdsm17.com/news/local/seven-years-later-mysterious-homicide-and-missing-person-case-remains-unsolved
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