(Des Moines) After a nearly two month long investigation into the disappearance and death of 58-year-old Timothy Fechter, law enforcement has charged his brother, 43-year-old Creston resident Dustin Seley with one count of Murder in the First Degree. Mr. Seley was taken into custody at the Union County Jail, where he had been since June 29 on unrelated charges. Custody of Mr. Seley has been transferred to the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, where he will be held on the murder charge.
The charge against Mr. Seley follows an investigation by the Division of Criminal Investigation, the Creston Police Department, the Union County Sheriff’s Office, and the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, and an autopsy by the Office of the State Medical Examiner. The medical examiner ruled Mr. Fechter’s cause of death as blunt force trauma and gunshot wound. The manner of death has been ruled a homicide.
Mr. Fechter was reported missing to the Creston Police Department on June 20 with his body being discovered along a rural Adair County road on July 1.
Anyone with previously unreported information concerning this case may contact Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater at (641) 743-2148.
Sheriff Vandewater said it is believed that a prosecution for murder has not taken place in Adair County since 1951.
(Below is an updated booking photo from Adair County)
