An Iowa man was arrested for first-degree murder for allegedly killing a woman in April 2021 then placing her head on a stick in a park.
Nathan James Gilmore, 23, was taken into custody on Friday in relation to the death of 29-year-old Angela Nicole Bradbury.
Detectives claim that Gilmore referenced the murder in a social media message. He drew a satanic goat’s head in the shape of a pentagram with numbers that alluded to the horrific and brutal killing.
Gilmore told police that he picked a woman up who matched Bradbury’s description from Cerro Gordon County Jail on April 6, 2021.
He said he initially dropped her off at a home in Mason City, but later allegedly changed stories and said he dropped her off five blocks from the jail.
A teenager found the skull at Greenbelt River Trail Park on July 12, 2021, roughly three months after the murder took place.
Bradbury was reported missing in February of this year by her family, who said they hadn’t heard from her since April 2021.
The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office was able to identify the skull as belonging to Bradbury using DNA and dental records provided by her family about a week after she was reported missing.
Additional human remains belonging to Bradbury were discovered at the trail in April 2022. A medical examiner determined that her manner of death was a homicide.
Gilmore said that after he left Bradbury on April 6, 2021, he went to work and then returned home that evening. However, detectives say that his GPS coordinates place Gilmore at the park.
“GPS records obtained from Gilmore’s Facebook account showed that on the evening of April 6, 2021, Gilmore’s Facebook account was active in an area northwest of Greenbelt River Trail Park at approximately 7:21 p.m. and active in an area southeast of the Greenbelt River Trail Park at approximately 8:37 pm,” the complaint said.
Gilmore later threatened in a message to a friend of his ex-girlfriend that the man would be lookin like the body they found outside Mitchell.
Detectives searched Gilmore’s home on Friday and found a drawing that “depicted a satanic goat’s head in the shape of a pentagram with what appeared to be blood spatters drawn on it.”
Numbers that were written on the drawing allegedly referenced Bradbury’s death. Detectives believe that “04-06” coincided with April 6, the day Bradbury was murdered. The numbers, “43.3, -92.8,” are allegedly abbreviated GPS coordinates of the park.
Gilmore is being held on a $1,000,000 bond at the Mitchell County Jail.
SEE AGAIN NO COMMENT ON THIS BUT IF IT HAD BEEN A BLACK MAN THEN YOU WOULD HAVE CALLED US SAVAGES LIKE I HAVE BEEN READING IN SOME THE PAST POST. BUT I GUESS WHAT HE DID IS ALRIGHT BECAUSE HE IS WHITE SO HE SHOULDN’T BE PUNISHED BUT IF WAS ONE OF US THEN YOU WOULD SAY WE SHOULD BE HAVE THE SAME THING DONE TO US. I GUESS DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS
I agree with you. This is the only place these racist can express themselves. They will stay quiet when it’s a white person committing these heinous crimes like an untrained dog.
Let’s just get off the division of race. A murderer is a murderer no matter what race he is. LET IT GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE
Amen! Absolutely! No matter what color a person is …….a murderer is a murderer and evil in his/her heart….We all bleed red and this racist stuff gotta go! I am not racist at all. To me…..I don’t care what color you are…..if you hurt or murder a person or animal………YOU ARE EVIL……has nothing to do with color!
Why are you saying he shouldn’t be punished?
Reaching much? He’s going to be punished, wtf are you talking about?
Just have to make everything no about race ffs grow up
If it were a black man there would be no picture or mention of race
Thats not the reason WE are not making negative comments, It’s just US trying to figure out how in the heck that black guy painted his face and body white enough to fool us all . lol
What idiots prove he did this and kill this rapid dog in a timely matter.
Theresa and Yezzir, your are both fucking racist scum bags, I’d like to see your heads on a stick
To bad that there is no death penalty in so many states. I think more people would think twice about killing if there was. However this guy is a sicko and will more than likely get a cushy sentence in a mental hospital.
Race has NO place in this subject! I don’t care if he was PURPLE, he should die for what he did to that poor woman. You people are absolutely stupid for bringing up race. This is a woman’s life here & you are talking race. SHAME ON YOU!! What this world is coming to is nothing but crap & unfeeling individuals. Not even people, just individuals. R. I. P. Ms Bradbury & GOD have mercy on all our souls.