After 40 years, police in Iowa say that they have solved a murder that had long baffled authorities.
Michael S. Schappert, 64, of Fairview, Oregon, faces murder charges related to the December 1983 death of Ronald Lee Novak, police said. Novak, who was 24 at the time of his death, was found beaten and bound in an unheated room at a home in rural Iowa. Police said he also had been shot once in the chest.
