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KTIV reported Irosy Iotis, 46, of Sioux City, was booked into the Woodbury County Jail about 1:45 a.m. Friday on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Shaunacie Peters.

Dean Welte and KTIV Staff published the booking at 9:47 a.m. CST on Nov. 6, 2026. The page later printed an update with no absolute clock. KSCJ, by Woody Gottburg, prints 1:48 a.m. The Sioux City Journal, by Nick Hytrek, prints 1:48 a.m. and an arrest warrant. KTIV's car is a newer-model black sedan, then a gray 2017 Chevy Malibu. The Journal's car is a gray Chevy Malibu.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

Booking photo of Irosy Iotis
Photo: Woodbury County Jail

About 1:45 a.m., and 1:48 a.m., are not the same clock. A newer-model black sedan, and a gray 2017 Chevy Malibu, and a gray Chevy Malibu, are not the same car line. Arms and legs, and six stab wounds, are not the same wound count. Held in a Wyoming jail without bond, and held without bond after the Woodbury booking, are not the same custody. A court appearance is pending, and no court hearings have yet been scheduled, are not the same calendar. A charge is not a conviction.

KTIV, by Dean Welte and KTIV Staff, published at 9:47 a.m. CST on November 6, 2026, reported online records show 46-year-old Irosy Iotis of Sioux City was booked into the Woodbury County Jail at about 1:45 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6. When the page was fetched, the updated line read 5 hours ago and did not print an absolute updated clock. It reported he is facing a first-degree murder charge after a woman's body was discovered at Sioux City's Riverside Park on the morning of Monday, Aug. 31. It identified her as 28-year-old Shaunacie Peters, who stayed at the Sioux City Warming Shelter the night before she was killed. It reported that using surveillance video and license plate readers, law enforcement identified Iotis as a suspect, located him driving in Wyoming and arrested him, and that he was being held in a Wyoming jail without bond until he could be extradited to Iowa. It reported that under Iowa law, if he is convicted of his murder charge, he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. KSCJ, by Woody Gottburg, dated Nov. 6, 2026, with no clock on the byline, reported 46-year-old Irosy Iotis was booked into the jail at 1:48 a.m. Friday morning and is charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of 28-year-old Shaunacie Peters. It reported her body was found in a Riverside Park parking lot on August 31st. It reported he had been in custody in Wyoming since being arrested in a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Cheyenne on September 2nd. It reported Lt. Jay Hoogendyk of the Sioux City Police says a judge had recently approved Iotis's extradition back to Iowa, and local authorities picked him up and began driving Iotis back to Sioux City Thursday morning. It posted two audio clips of Hoogendyk. The text under them says the investigation is ongoing, that Iotis is being held without bond, and that a court appearance is pending. The words inside the audio were not transcribed here. The Sioux City Journal, by Nick Hytrek, dated Nov. 6, 2026, with no absolute clock and a relative line that read 2 hrs ago when the page was fetched, reported Irosy Iotis, 46, was booked into the Woodbury County Jail at 1:48 a.m. Friday and served with an arrest warrant, and that he is being held without bond. It reported he had been in custody in Wyoming since Sept. 2, when he was taken into custody after a traffic stop, that Wyoming approved his extradition to Iowa last month, and that his return to Woodbury County was arranged by the Sioux City Police Department. It reported he is accused of the stabbing death of 28-year-old Shaunacie Peters, whose body was found Aug. 31 in a Riverside Park parking lot, and that no court hearings have yet been scheduled. About 1:45 a.m., on KTIV, and 1:48 a.m., on KSCJ and the Journal, are not the same clock. Of Sioux City, on KTIV, and a Sioux City man, in the Journal's lede, are not the same residence line. KSCJ does not print his city. Facing a first-degree murder charge, and charged with first degree murder, and served with an arrest warrant, and accused of the stabbing death, are not the same paper. First-degree, and first degree, are not the same typesetting. The Sioux City Warming Shelter is KTIV. KSCJ and the Journal do not print it. Mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted, is KTIV. KSCJ and the Journal do not print that sentence. Lt. Jay Hoogendyk, a judge had recently approved, and Thursday morning, are KSCJ. Wyoming approved his extradition last month, and the return was arranged by the Sioux City Police Department, are the Journal. Recently, and last month, are not the same timing. A court appearance is pending, on KSCJ, and no court hearings have yet been scheduled, on the Journal, are not the same calendar. KTIV does not print a court date.

The scene is not one document. KTIV, citing a search warrant application filed in Woodbury County District Court, reported Sioux City police officers were called to Riverside Park at around 6:44 a.m. on Aug. 31, and that when they arrived they discovered an unconscious woman, Peters, covered in blood with multiple stab wounds to her arms and legs, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The Journal, citing a complaint made public Friday, reported a police officer on patrol found Peters' body covered in blood with numerous stab wounds on her arms and legs, and that a medical examination revealed six stab wounds, two in the left leg and four in the upper left arm, and that a stab wound to the inner thigh cut Peters' femoral artery, a major blood vessel. Multiple stab wounds to her arms and legs, and six stab wounds with two in the left leg and four in the upper left arm, are not the same count. Arms, plural, and the upper left arm, are not the same. Around 6:44 a.m., and an officer on patrol with no clock, are not the same arrival. Pronounced dead at the scene is KTIV. The Journal does not print those words. A search warrant application, on KTIV, and a complaint made public Friday, on the Journal, are not the same document. KSCJ does not print the wounds or the call. The car is not one color. KTIV reported investigators reviewed area surveillance cameras and spotted a newer-model black sedan entering the park around 1:55 a.m., that court documents state the vehicle parked where the victim was later discovered and shut off its headlights for about 30 minutes before leaving at 2:27 a.m., and that detectives tracked the car from Interstate 29 to an alley behind a residence at 1222 W. 4th St. in Sioux City around 2:34 a.m. It reported police identified the car as a gray 2017 Chevy Malibu registered to Iotis at that address. A newer-model black sedan, and a gray 2017 Chevy Malibu, are both on that KTIV page. The Journal, citing the complaint, reported police obtained surveillance video footage from Riverside Park and identified a suspect vehicle enter the park at 1:55 a.m., park where Peters' body was later found and turn its headlights off, and that after about half an hour the headlights turned on and it drove around the parking lot, stopping briefly on the opposite side, where officers discovered two condoms and a condom package, and one of the condoms appeared to have semen in it. It reported the vehicle left the park at 2:27 a.m., and that the parking lot was too dark for police viewing the video to determine what had occurred. It reported police later determined the vehicle, a gray Chevy Malibu, was registered to Iotis. It does not print black, 2017, Interstate 29, or the alley. About 30 minutes with the headlights off before leaving, on KTIV, and headlights back on after about half an hour and a drive around the lot before the 2:27 a.m. departure, on the Journal, are not the same sequence. The condoms and the package are the Journal. KTIV and KSCJ do not print them. W. 4th St., on KTIV, and W. Fourth St., on the Journal, are not the same abbreviation.

The stops are not one state. KTIV reported that two days later, on Wednesday,Sept. 2, law enforcement tracked the vehicle heading west through Nebraska, that a Nebraska State Patrol trooper pulled the car over on Interstate 80 near Sidney, Nebraska, for traveling 99 mph, that according to the affidavit Iotis gave the trooper false information and was initially released, and that a short time later Wyoming State Patrol stopped the vehicle in Cheyenne after receiving an alert that it was tied to a Sioux City homicide investigation. Wednesday,Sept. 2, with no space after the comma, is the typesetting on that page. The Journal reported the vehicle was tracked heading west through Nebraska on Interstate 80 and was stopped traveling 99 mph at Sidney, Nebraska, that Iotis is alleged to have given false information to the Nebraska State Trooper who stopped him and was released, and that he was later stopped in Cheyenne, Wyoming, by a Wyoming State Trooper who had been alerted the car was wanted in connection with a homicide. It reported Iotis was with his wife, who also provided a false name. Her name is not printed. Initially released, on KTIV, and was released, on the Journal, are not the same word. Near Sidney, and at Sidney, are not the same place line. Tied to a Sioux City homicide investigation, and wanted in connection with a homicide, are not the same alert. KSCJ prints the Cheyenne stop on Interstate 80 on September 2nd and does not print the Nebraska stop, the speed, or the false information. The search is not one list. KTIV reported investigators executed a search warrant at the West 4th Street home on the evening of Sept. 2, and that according to the warrant return filed on Sept. 11 officers seized a black and yellow knife, four blue rags, a black long-sleeve shirt, a black T-shirt, a white T-shirt, cream-colored sweatpants, a pair of black work boots, a pink bedsheet with flowers, and a Gold Peak tea bottle. The Journal reported Sioux City police executed a search warrant at Iotis' home at 1222 W. Fourth St. and seized rags that were consistent with two rags found near Peters' body, and also collected a knife, a pair of work boots, clothing items and a pink sheet with a flower print. A black and yellow knife, and a knife, are not the same description. Four blue rags, and rags consistent with two rags found near the body, are not the same count. A pink bedsheet with flowers, and a pink sheet with a flower print, are not the same item line. The tea bottle, the shirt colors, the evening of Sept. 2, and the Sept. 11 return are KTIV. The Journal does not print them. The Journal reported that, speaking to other residents in the home, investigators were told they had been playing volleyball at Riverside Park the afternoon and evening before the body was found, and that after they returned Iotis began drinking and got into an argument with his wife, left in his car at approximately 1 a.m., and returned at about 2:34 a.m. It reported he left and returned a number of times after that, but stayed in his car rather than entering the house each time. It reported he did not go to work that morning, that the other residents had seen news of Peters' death but he was quiet when they mentioned it, and that they noticed a cut on his right index finger. It reported he told them it happened at work, but he had not gone to work that day or been at work the day before. It reported that on Sept. 1 his wife asked one of the roommates to help clean his car, that they took it to South Sioux City, where his wife cleaned and vacuumed the interior, and that investigators were told he kept a knife with a blade at least 6 inches long in the center console, seen the day before Peters' death and not present when the car was cleaned. It reported that after he was taken into custody in Wyoming his car was seized, and that during a search warrant investigators found the presence of blood on the passenger side door and swabs were taken for further testing. It reported police also obtained search warrants for his phones and other electronic devices found in his car. It reported that during an interview his statements contradicted video surveillance evidence and information provided by others living in his house. It reported a search for his wife's name in online court records did not reveal any charges filed against her at this time. Her name is not printed. KTIV and KSCJ do not print the residents, the finger, the South Sioux City cleaning, the center-console knife, the blood on the door, or the phones. Approximately 1 a.m., on the Journal, and the 1:55 a.m. entry into the park, on both KTIV and the Journal, are not the same clock. The booking is what those pages reported. It is not a conviction. If convicted, the mandatory life sentence without parole is KTIV's account of Iowa law. It is not a sentence that has been imposed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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