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Iowan pleads not guilty to vehicular homicide

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October 29th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

ONAWA, Iowa (AP) – A 44-year-old western woman has pleaded not guilty for a crash that killed her uncle.  Sioux City television station KTIV says Judith Krohn, of Mapleton, is charged with felony vehicular homicide while driving intoxicated. The accident occurred April 20 along Iowa Highway 141 near Mapleton. Authorities say Krohn was driving when her vehicle left the road on a curve and rolled into a ditch.

Her uncle, 59-year-old Albert Butler, of Mapleton, was partially ejected. He was pronounced dead later at a hospital.