A DeWitt teenager was charged Friday with the murder of his parents.
Gavin Glasz, 18, of rural DeWitt faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, Brian Paul Glasz, 51, and Michelle Renee Glasz, 54, who were found dead in their Low Moor home Tuesday, June 13.
The teen Glasz, who is being held in the Clinton County Jail on a $1 million cash bond, made his initial appearance in a Clinton County courtroom Friday morning.
According to a police affidavit, officers of the DeWitt Police Department were asked to do a welfare check when Brian Glasz did not show up for work June 13. The officers entered the home through an unlocked window, the document said, and found the bodies of the couple in separate rooms and wrapped in blankets.
The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s office determined the cause of death of Brian Glasz was multiple sharp force injuries, strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head. The cause of death for Michelle Glasz was determined to be strangulation and multiple sharp force injuries.
When DeWitt Police Officers encountered the younger Glasz, they found he had with injuries to his hands and a laceration that required medical attention and stitches. They arrested the teenager Tuesday on an unrelated warrant.
He told law enforcement authorities at that time that he had not seen his mother in four days and had not seen his father since the weekend. Low Moor is an eastern Iowa town with a population of fewer than 300.
The teen was searched when taken into custody, “and over $800 in cash was located in one of Gavin Glasz’s pockets, which appeared to have blood on it,” according to the police affidavit.
Further police investigation uncovered more bloody items, such as footwear and clothing, according to the affidavit. Other items found in the kitchen sink, washing machine and other areas of the house led law enforcement to conclude that “attempts were made to clean up the blood” in the Glasz house.
The affidavit also indicated that footage from a surveillance footage set up on the Glasz property showed the Glasz son entering and exiting the home “several times” on Tuesday morning.
Very interesting story but it is certainly not local news. The news that the Dallas county judge did not reduce the bond of the 21-year-old in jail for drop kicking Sabrina Ray today would be of more local interest than something that happened in extreme eastern Iowa.
We specialize in local news, of course, but that doesn’t mean we trade exclusively in it. Questions of newsworthiness call for judgments, and judgments will differ. What a district court judge did not do today is of some interest, admittedly. Rest assured there will be plenty more Sabrina Ray copy to come in the weeks and months ahead.
I live in “extreme eastern Iowa” and am thankful to have found this article on the internet. We had no idea what was going on about these murders. We didn’t even know there were murders until we read this article. Many of us were concerned there was a killer on the loose. So, thank you, Jim Caufield, for giving us “Clinton, Iowa people” some clarity in this. Your local paper is on the ball!
ThePerryNews.com is not a local “paper.” If you live in Clinton, you should have heard about this on your local media. If you were concerned that there was a killer on the loose, then you must have had some idea of what was going on.