The Iowa Murders

A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Two bright futures. Two senseless murders. One state left in shock.

In the summer of 2018, Iowa was rocked by the disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts, a college student out for a run in her small town. For five agonizing weeks, her family, friends, and the entire nation held its breath—until her killer led police to a shallow grave in a cornfield.

Just weeks later, another tragedy unfolded. Celia Barquin Arozamena, a champion golfer with a promising future, was brutally murdered on a quiet morning at her university’s golf course. She never saw her killer coming.

These weren’t crimes of passion. They weren’t committed by people the victims knew. They were cold, random, and horrifying—acts of violence by men with nothing to lose.

The Iowa Murders tells the true stories behind these two high-profile cases. It reveals the grief of the families, the rage of the communities, and the chilling randomness of violence that stunned the world.

Previously published as We’ll Find You and Let’s Do Murder, this updated edition is a powerful, unflinching look at the cost of evil—and how love, courage, and justice fight back.

Author’s Political Stance

Virtual voice wasn’t great but not as bad as others.
Not impressed with the author’s political stance being thrown into the story. Not that it was stated outright, but was make obvious.

Bad AI narration

Did not like the AI narration. Was basically like a podcast with bad pronunciation. Hope more books are not done this way.

Disjointed and Unfocused

I expected something this short to be more essay style and frankly, I wish it had been. It was disjointed and there were times when it dragged because it seemed like we were circling back over and over to the issues that had more to do with how these murders were used by the public than the murders themselves. I also wish we could have had more information about who the victims were as people. There were tidbits but I wanted more because I felt like the most we learned about them is how the loss of them affected others than the people themselves.

The back cover does more for this book than the book does for itself as far as interest.

The issue of how the media and the public handles murder is an interesting one in itself, but that is not what I came into this book wanting to know more about. If that is the subject matter the author wanted to stress, I wish he lead with that.

Purpose: Trump Bashing. Don't waste your time

Author really missed the boat. Book could have been in depth about the victims and psychology of the perpetrators. Instead author demonstrated he is a political hack with Trump derangement syndrome. Not worth listening. Surprised this was even published.

Disappointing overall

Narration distracted from the story as it just seemed bored. There were several inexcusable mispronunciations i.e. lead was pronounced lead (led) and facility was pronounced faculty. The story did not investigate other suspects or follow up on the man found guilty. Skip it, read something else.