SOURCE: Iowa Cold Cases website
On September 30, 1947, two men on their way to work at Credit Island Park in south-west Davenport, Iowa, discovered a woman's body near the park's main entrance. The victim was later identified as 34-year-old Margaret B. Treese of Davenport. Margaret had been brutally murdered. Numerous tattoos on Treese's body led to her case being dubbed "The Tattoo Murder Case." She was a World War II widow and from Cumberland, West Virginia. Treese was last seen around 12:30 a.m. drinking with three men in one of the "skid row" taverns and left in a car with the men.
If you have any information about Margaret Treese's unsolved murder, please contact the Davenport Police Department at 563-326-7979.
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SOURCE: Iowa Death Certificate Number 82C4/7721 [number is nearly illegible]
Name: Margaret B. Treese
Birth Date: 07 Feb 1913
Birthplace: [Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio]
Death Date: 30 Sep 1947
Death Place: Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Ethnic Group: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Unknown
Cause of Death: Crushing injury
Manner of Death: Homicide
Place of Burial: New Cumberland, Hancock, West Virginia
Cemetery: New Cumberland
Date of Burial: 03 Oct 1947
Father's Name: Joseph W. Martin
Mother's Name: [Flora Kirkbride]
Spouse's Name: Elmer G. Treese [deceased 1945]
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Margaret married Stephen L. Major on 17 Mar 1934 in Jefferson County, Ohio.
SOURCE: Iowa Cold Cases website
On September 30, 1947, two men on their way to work at Credit Island Park in south-west Davenport, Iowa, discovered a woman's body near the park's main entrance. The victim was later identified as 34-year-old Margaret B. Treese of Davenport. Margaret had been brutally murdered. Numerous tattoos on Treese's body led to her case being dubbed "The Tattoo Murder Case." She was a World War II widow and from Cumberland, West Virginia. Treese was last seen around 12:30 a.m. drinking with three men in one of the "skid row" taverns and left in a car with the men.
If you have any information about Margaret Treese's unsolved murder, please contact the Davenport Police Department at 563-326-7979.
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SOURCE: Iowa Death Certificate Number 82C4/7721 [number is nearly illegible]
Name: Margaret B. Treese
Birth Date: 07 Feb 1913
Birthplace: [Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio]
Death Date: 30 Sep 1947
Death Place: Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Ethnic Group: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Unknown
Cause of Death: Crushing injury
Manner of Death: Homicide
Place of Burial: New Cumberland, Hancock, West Virginia
Cemetery: New Cumberland
Date of Burial: 03 Oct 1947
Father's Name: Joseph W. Martin
Mother's Name: [Flora Kirkbride]
Spouse's Name: Elmer G. Treese [deceased 1945]
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Margaret married Stephen L. Major on 17 Mar 1934 in Jefferson County, Ohio.
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