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MURDERED: Lyric Cook-Morrissey & Elizabeth Collins

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MURDERED: Lyric Cook-Morrissey & Elizabeth Collins

When two young cousins go out for a bike ride and never come home, a community has to ask: is a predator living among them?

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Timeline:

July 13, 2012
July 13, 2012
12:15pm

Lyric and Elizabeth’s grandmother sees them riding their bicycles down the street.

Between 12:00-3:00pm

An Evansdale resident sees the girls riding their bicycles down a different street.

4:00pm

The girls’ bicycles are found on a trail near Meyers Lake, as well as Elizabeth’s cellphone and purse, but the girls are nowhere to be seen.

July 16-17, 2012
July 16-17, 2012

Meyers Lake is drained in an attempt to locate the girls.

July 31, 2012
July 31, 2012

Elizabeth’s birthday comes and goes with no sign of her or her cousin.

December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

Two sets of remains are discovered by hunters in Seven Bridges Wildlife Area. They are eventually determined to belong to Lyric and Elizabeth.

Map of important locations for the case.

The last place the girls were seen riding their bikes.

Where the girls’ bikes were discovered, abandoned.

Where the girls’ bodies were discovered.

Please contact the authorities if you have any information about the disappearance and murders of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins in 2012 in Iowa:

Email or text

Please email any tips to [email protected], or text 274637 and include the word “CEDAR.”

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You can also remain anonymous by calling 815-300-8477.

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