2017年12月8日 · Tait Otis Purk, 51, of Tama, was found guilty by Judge Ian Thornhill of second-degree murder in the 2000 disappearance of Cora Ann Okonski, who was last seen by family and friends more than 17...

2018年2月1日 · Thursday, 6th Judicial District Judge Ian Thornhill sentenced Purk, 52, to 50 years in prison for killing his 23-year-old fiancee on April 16, 2000. The sentencing went quickly. The conviction...

May 10, 2017 — Tait Otis Purk, 50, was found guilty of 1st degree murder of his fiance, Cora Ann Okonski, in Tama 17 years ago. A 12-member jury received the case at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, and reached a verdict shortly before noon Wednesday.

2018年2月2日 · Court records say 51-year-old Tait Purk was sentenced Thursday. In December, a judge found him guilty of second-degree murder for killing Cora Okonski nearly 18 years ago.

2025年1月21日 · TOLEDO — Tait Purk has waived his right to a jury trial, meaning the state’s second attempt to convict him of murder charges in the case of his missing girlfriend will be heard by a judge. The...

2017年12月8日 · The prosecution proved that Purk grabbed, choked and slammed Okonski, 23, to the floor that Palm Sunday 17 years ago in Tama County, that she died as a result of it and that Purk acted with...

Tait Purk, center, exits the Tama County courtroom after being found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Cora Okonski on Friday.

2018年2月3日 · TOLEDO — “I loved Cora, I missed her,” Tait Otis Purk told Judge Ian K. Thornhill and about a dozen persons in the Tama County District Courtroom in Toledo during his sentencing on a charge of...

2019年11月16日 · Tait Otis Purk’s conviction and sentence on 2nd degree murder in Tama County District Court has been affirmed by the Iowa Court of Appeals. District Court Judge Ian K. Thornhill found Purk...

2019年11月15日 · Tait Otis Purk’s conviction and sentence on 2nd degree murder in Tama County District Court was affirmed by the Iowa Court of Appeals last week. District Court Judge Ian K. Thornhill found Purk guilty of killing his girlfriend Cora Ann Okonski following a bench trial in Toledo on Dec. 8, 2017.