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Update: Bluffs woman & man’s death ruled murder-suicide

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November 19th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Council Bluffs, Iowa — Authorities in Pottawattamie County said in an update to a death investigation in Council Bluffs, the incident was a murder-suicide, and the case is closed.

As we’ve previously reported, Sheriff’s Deputies and Police were called to home on the far east side of Council Bluffs at around 7:45-a.m. November 7th., on a report of a domestic disturbance. When law enforcement arrived on the scene, the found the body of 83-year-old Bonnie Rankin, dead from a gunshot wound.

Her husband, 86-year-old Harvey Rankin was suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center for treatment, but died Nov. 16th.