Gregory Snodgrass, 29, was killed near Ottumwa, Iowa, on September 20, 1981. His estranged wife, Sherryl Ann Snodgrass, and her companion, Michael L. Hood, traveled from Missouri to the farmhouse Gregory had been living in, allegedly to collect clothing for the children. They arrived armed with three loaded firearms: a .30 caliber carbine, a .357 revolver, and a 16-gauge sawed-off shotgun.

Accounts differ about what happened next. Sherryl said she heard a shot after Gregory went to a hall closet where he kept a shotgun; Hood testified Gregory pointed a shotgun at him and then was shot. Forensic work placed Gregory in the doorway between the kitchen and living room when the fatal blast from the 16-gauge shotgun struck him. Hood then stabbed the wounded man three times. Sherryl and Hood cleaned the farmhouse, loaded Gregory’s body into his car trunk, and drove back to Missouri with the children. Hood, with assistance from fellow Ku Klux Klan members, later dumped the body into the Mississippi River. Both Sherryl Ann Snodgrass and Michael L. Hood were arrested and convicted of first-degree murder for Gregory’s death.

Does anyone have information about Gregory’s life in Iowa or the farmhouse where this occurred?