1993 Iowa murders

Dustin Lee Honken (March 22, 1968 – July 17, 2020) and Angela Jane Johnson (born January 17, 1964) are American mass murderers convicted of the 1993 murders of five people in Iowa.

Dustin Honken
Honken leaving a federal courthouse after being sentenced in 2005
Born
Dustin Lee Honken

(1968-03-22)March 22, 1968
DiedJuly 17, 2020(2020-07-17) (aged 52)
USP Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Cause of deathExecution by lethal injection
MotiveWitness elimination
Conviction(s)Murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise (5 counts)
Conspiracy to commit murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise (5 counts)
Soliciting the murder of a witness
Conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and to solicit the murder of witnesses
Witness tampering resulting in death (5 counts)
Attempting to manufacture methamphetamine
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine
Criminal penaltyDeath (October 11, 2005)
Details
Victims5
Span of crimes
July 24  November 5, 1993
CountryUnited States
State(s)Iowa
Date apprehended
2001 (for the murders)
Angela Johnson
Mugshot from U.S. Attorney's office
Born
Angela Jane Johnson

(1964-01-17) January 17, 1964
Criminal statusIncarcerated
MotiveWitness elimination
Conviction(s)Murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise (5 counts)
Criminal penaltyDeath; commuted to life imprisonment (December 17, 2014)
Details
Victims5 (as an accomplice)
Span of crimes
July 24  November 5, 1993
CountryUnited States
State(s)Iowa
Date apprehended
2000
Imprisoned atFederal Correctional Institution, Waseca

The victims were related to a drug trial against Honken. Honken was involved in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, and one of his dealers was set to testify against him, so Honken and Johnson murdered him along with his girlfriend and her two young daughters. A few months later, the fifth victim, also a former dealer, was murdered.

Although Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965, the crime was a federal case since it involved a continuing criminal enterprise. Honken was sentenced to death and executed by the federal government on July 17, 2020, the first defendant from Iowa to be executed since 1963. Johnson was also sentenced to death, the first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s, but the sentence was overturned in 2012, and she was resentenced to life without parole in 2014.

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