THE DARK SIDE OF IOWA
Alice McFarland
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photo courtesy Des Moines Register
Full Name: Alice Norene McFarland
DOB: August 24, 1932
Charge: 2nd degree murder
County: Poweshiek
City: Ottumwa
Current Status: Seventh Judicial District
Date of Crime: September 29, 1987
Tentative Discharge Date: October 24, 2022
Victims: Echo Jackson & Frank Amos
DOB: August 24, 1932
Charge: 2nd degree murder
County: Poweshiek
City: Ottumwa
Current Status: Seventh Judicial District
Date of Crime: September 29, 1987
Tentative Discharge Date: October 24, 2022
Victims: Echo Jackson & Frank Amos
An Ottumwa woman pleaded innocent to charges that she shot to death a supermarket co-worker at a city park. Alice Norene McFarland, 54, was being charged with first-degreee murder for shooting to death Echo Pauline Jackson, 42, on September 29, 1987. Echo was picnicking with Frank Amos, 55, in Caldwell Park. Echo was shot in the head. Frank was also shot but survived.
courtesy Des Moines Register
Alice and Echo were employed at Easter Foods in Ottumwa. Echo worked there for 2½ years and Alice had worked there for more than 5 years. The store manager, Jerry Milligan, said that the two seemed to get along fine. "Everyone does here. We have a happy group," he said. Gene Meyer, assistant DCI director, said that Alice and Frank were "longtime acquaintances" and a love triangle may have been the motive for the shooting.
Source: Des Moines Register