From KTIV-TV Channel 4 in Sioux City, IA -- January 6, 2008
News report on the August 28, 2007 propane explosion -- caused by
copper thieves -- at a rural Monona County rental property owned
by Earl and Hope Thelander of Onawa, Iowa, in which Earl sustained
second- and third-degree burns over eighty percent of his body and
died four days later in an Omaha burn unit.
The family is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for his death.
