on december 16th, 2014 authorities say beam and eric franco were drinking at a house in mapleton. they say the men began to wrestle and choke one another when beam got angry. that's when they say beam shot franco in the head with a 44 magnum. franco was treated for non life threatening injuries. one day after jonathan neunaber pleaded guilty to his mother's murder, we're learning why the akron, iowa, was in a wheelchair and neck brace in the courtroom. neunaber had to be wheeled into the courtroom, on monday, for his hearing, where he pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and willful injury. back on september 27th, the plymouth county sheriff says neunaber sustained what he calls a "minor injury" during a fall in the jail maximum security area. he was treated by medical staff. five days later, the sheriff says neunaber injured himself, again, when he lost his balance, fell backwards, and hit his head on the edge of the bed in his cell. treated him at the jail, but three days later neunaber had to be taken to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries from the fall.

on december 16th, 2014 authorities say b bm and eric franco were drinking at a housesen mapleton. they say the men began to wrestle and choke one another when beam got angry. that's when they say beam shot franco in the head with a 44 magnum. franco was treated for non life threatening injuries. a siouxlxld program helps famileleheal after violent crimes. ktiv's tiffany lane with the story of a woman who witnessed her husband's death and how the tiffany? sometimes in life, we experience unexpected tragedies that we wouldn't wish on anyone. but with one program in western iowa, families of those victims, don't have to go through it alone. << liz ford lost her husband of 19-years in the flash of an eye. "my last k ks with my husband was when i started cpr and triedd bring any life back into him," said ford. "i felt the damage with every push and i had to look at all the trauma you caused." ford gave that emotional testimony during the trial o@ the hit and run driver who killed her husband troy in august. and.. while she tries to overcome such sadness she says crossing paths with a n

calling in from mapleton, illinois. hi. caller: good morning. this might sound callous and i don't mean it to be. i'm retired law enforcement from alifornia, and i told your screener that i'm not expecting nyone to inject the racial component in this but there were a lot of sick people we were '80s ng in prison in the and '90s and early 2000s when i was working and now all of a udden, this is a sickness, a disease, it's an epidemic, and the reasons is because it's of society it nt never was intended. if this had been confined to the lower classes and the minorities, we'd only be talking prison. and i do believe that, yes, we there is aatment but crime in california called 11550. influence,d under the health and safety code, and possession of is a crime. o unless we go and do this across the board, i am not in favor of any kind of treatment until they start treating everybody. but if we go according to what we always do, we'll put the prison, and s in we'll put johnny suburb in rehab. so i'm sorry to put it that way, but that's just the way thing

host: valdez is calling in from mapleton, illinois. hi. caller: good morning. this might sound callous and i don't mean it to be. i'm retired law enforcement from california, and i told your screener that i'm not expecting anyone to inject the racial component in this but there were a lot of sick people we were putting in prison in the '80s and '90s and early 2000s when i was working and now all of a sudden, this is a sickness, a disease, it's an epidemic, and the reasons is because it's hitting a segment of society it never was intended. if this had been confined to the lower classes and the minorities, we'd only be talking prison. and i do believe that, yes, we do need treatment but there is a crime in california called 11550. it's called under the influence, health and safety code, and possession of is a crime. so unless we go and do this across the board i am not in favor of any kind of treatment until they start treating everybody. but if we go according to what we always do, we'll put the lower classes in prison, and we'll put johnny suburb in rehab. so i