The shocking unsolved murder of a Finance Loan Manager still has no answers:
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/fred-coste/
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IA IA - Frederick 'Fred' Coste, 47, Cedar Rapids, 15 Oct 1959
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Trish Mehaffey Nov. 26, 2023 rbbm
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''The Gazette, in a continuing series this coming year, will highlight about 10 of the 27 cold cases in Cedar Rapids that Denlinger has reviewed or investigated and four additional ones investigated by Linn County Sheriff’s Lt. Dave Beuter.
Denlinger and Beuter will provide background of the cases from the original files and explain where the trails went cold and share new information they have gathered over years.''
''The Cedar Rapids cases in the series will include a homicide case from 1959 of a 47-year-old Army veteran who served in World War II. Frederick Leonard Coste was manager of a downtown financial company, upstairs from the De Var restaurant, who was fatally stabbed during an apparent robbery on Oct. 15, 1959.''
Unraveling decades-old murder cases challenged by time
The biggest “enemy” of a cold case is time. It it affects memories, evidence and paper reports. But time also can bring breakthroughs by way of new technology that wasn’t available when someone was killed and murders went unsolved. In a continuing series, The Gazette will revisit some of those...
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Denlinger and Beuter will provide background of the cases from the original files and explain where the trails went cold and share new information they have gathered over years.''
''The Cedar Rapids cases in the series will include a homicide case from 1959 of a 47-year-old Army veteran who served in World War II. Frederick Leonard Coste was manager of a downtown financial company, upstairs from the De Var restaurant, who was fatally stabbed during an apparent robbery on Oct. 15, 1959.''
Very lengthy, lots more detail at link..
Tish Mehaffey Feb. 4, 2024
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'The Family Finance Corporation was located at 312 Second Ave. SE in downtown Cedar Rapids. Its now a parking garage. (The Gazette)'
Police found the body of Fred Coste, 47, fatally stabbed Oct. 15, 1959, inside the cubicle area of the Family Finance Corporation, which was in downtown Cedar Rapids. More than 64 years later, the killing remains unsolved. (Photo by Cedar Rapids Police Department)
''Coste was stabbed in the chest six times with a “heavy object,” Denlinger said. One of those stab wounds punctured his heart, according to the coroner.
The detectives also found “partial bloody hand prints” on a drawer behind the counter and it was determined that $258 was missing from the cash drawer.
The person of interest’s file showed he had taken out a loan for $151.58 on Sept. 25, 1959, and there were what appeared to be blood droplets on the account sheet.''
Tish Mehaffey Feb. 4, 2024
Cold case: Daughter of finance manager slain in 1959 still hopes for answers
Dianne Martin, daughter of finance manager, Fred Coste, 47, who was fatally stabbed in 1959, has gone through many emotions over the last 64 years, waiting for his killer to be caught. She is hoping Cedar Rapids police Investigator Matt Denlinger can get her the answers she needs to have peace.
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'The Family Finance Corporation was located at 312 Second Ave. SE in downtown Cedar Rapids. Its now a parking garage. (The Gazette)'
Police found the body of Fred Coste, 47, fatally stabbed Oct. 15, 1959, inside the cubicle area of the Family Finance Corporation, which was in downtown Cedar Rapids. More than 64 years later, the killing remains unsolved. (Photo by Cedar Rapids Police Department)
''Coste was stabbed in the chest six times with a “heavy object,” Denlinger said. One of those stab wounds punctured his heart, according to the coroner.
The detectives also found “partial bloody hand prints” on a drawer behind the counter and it was determined that $258 was missing from the cash drawer.
The person of interest’s file showed he had taken out a loan for $151.58 on Sept. 25, 1959, and there were what appeared to be blood droplets on the account sheet.''
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