The Waverly Stranglings
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Known primarily as the seat of Bremer County, as well as the location of Wartburg College - a private Lutheran liberal arts school - Waverly is surrounded by dozens of miles of rural terrain.
Between 1971 and 1976, a trio of shocking murders would rock this small town in northeastern Iowa. Now, nearly fifty years later, very few remember the victims that have since become known as the 'Waverly Three'...
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| 0:35.2 | In 1971, Valerie Lynn Klasovsky was a 14-year-old living in Waverly, |
| 0:41.6 | a small town in Northeastern Iowa, with a population that hovered just above 7,000 during Valorys youth, |
| 0:48.6 | known primarily as the Seat of Bremer County, as well as the location of Wartburg College, |
| 0:54.7 | a private Lutheran liberal arts school. Waverly is surrounded by dozens of miles of rural terrain. |
| 1:01.3 | The second of three sisters, Valerie would grow up alongside her older sister Denise and her younger |
| 1:06.8 | sister Michelle in a tumultuous environment. Their parents, Harold and Janine, would marry and divorce |
| 1:12.9 | each other three times before permanently ending things during the girl's childhood. |
| 1:18.0 | Their mother would remarry, while their father moved into a home along the 200 block of Waverly's |
| 1:24.2 | fifth street. This was located in downtown Waverly, just a few blocks away from Wartburg College, |
| 1:30.8 | near the Seater River. There, the girls would live with their father, and they would soon be |
| 1:35.7 | joined by their widowed grandmother, Mae, who moved in about a year before to help keep an eye on |
| 1:41.1 | the girls while Valerie's father worked full-time. Valerie attended Waverly's Shell Rock Junior High |
| 1:47.1 | School, and according to the school's principal, James W. McGrew, she was an average student that was |
| 1:53.8 | easy to get along with, despite not having many friends at school. Valerie was a thoughtful and |
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