Crooks, now 14 , has been charged with first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse on March 24, 2012. The victim was his 37-year-old mother, Gretchen Crooks, who had taken ...

According to the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office, the woman has been identified as Gretchen Crooks, 37. Crooks was a nurse at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa and a 1992 graduate of Mason City ...

Police continue to look for a possible motive in the shooting death of Gretchen Crooks, allegedly by her 13-year-old son Noah. Police responding to the Crooks home, in Osage, Iowa, on Saturday ...

Crooks is charged with first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in the death of his mother, Gretchen, 37, at the family’s Osage home. The prosecution began its case by ...

Crooks, 14, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother, Gretchen, 37, on March 24, 2012, at the family’s rural Osage home. About 7:30 p.m. that night, Noah called ...

A judge on Friday sentenced 17-year-old Noah Crooks to up to 50 years in prison for the March 2012 shooting death of his mother, 37-year-old Gretchen Crooks. He will go to prison once he turns 18 ...

MASON CITY — Surrounding the smiling photograph of Gretchen Ann Crooks were things that spoke of life. Pots of ferns and roses, chrysanthemums and lilies, all fought against Friday’s overcast ...

Prosecutors say Noah Crooks was 13 years old when he fired rifle round after rifle round into his mother, 37-year-old Gretchen Crooks, in their Osage home on March 24, 2012. He was convicted of ...