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Man Charged In Sioux City Cold Case Fighting Extradition To Iowa

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January 23rd, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The man charged in the 1983 shooting death of a Sioux City woman is fighting his extradition back to Iowa. Sixty-two-year-old Thomas Duane Popp was arrested January 11th in Washington state on a first-degree murder charge in the death of then 18-year-old Terri McCauley.

The Woodbury County Attorney’s office confirms that Popp is still being held in Cowlitz County Washington on a 750-thousand dollar bond. Terri McCauley was last seen alive in September of 1983 and her body was found in October after her mother filed a missing persons report. McCauley had been shot to death with a shotgun.