TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) — A man convicted of killing a woman whose body has never been found has been given 50 years in an Iowa prison.Court records say 51-year-old Tait Purk was sentenced Thursday. In December a judge found him guilty of second-degree murder for killing Cora Okonski nearly 18 years ago.

In May a jury convicted Purk of murder, but a judge found the verdict wasn’t backed by evidence.Okonski disappeared in April 16, 2000, while she was living with Purk in Tama. Purk had told authorities she had left to buy cigarettes and never returned.

A former fellow inmate of Purk’s testified that Purk told him he had killed his fiancee during an argument, kept her body in a bathroom closet overnight and then buried her.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former softball coach has been given 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Council Bluffs. Court records say John Osborn was sentenced Thursday. He was convicted Dec. 22 of four counts of sexual abuse. It was Osborn’s second trial on the charges. He’d been convicted in spring 2015, but a judge ordered a new trial when new evidence surfaced before Osborn could be sentenced. The second trial was delayed by legal wrangling. His attorney says Osborn intends to appeal.

Council Bluffs police say Osborn and the girl engaged in sex acts when the girl stayed at Osborn’s house in July 2014 for a sleepover with his daughter.

Annoyed by calls on your cell phone from a familiar-looking number –but it winds up being a telemarketer? State Senator Ken Rozenboom is, too. “Because I’m in the senate and I’d like to respond to constituents, I tend to answer the phone but increasingly, of course, they’re telemarketing calls,” Rozenboom says. “This Monday was the last straw for me.”

Rozenboom got a call with a 641 area code and a 295 prefix, indicating it was a call from someone in his hometown of Oskaloosa. “I answered it, listened the sales spiel on credit cards, disconnected, called the number back immediately,” Rozenboom says. “This nice lady says: ‘Good morning.’ And I’m kind of caught off guard ’cause I didn’t expect an answer and I said: ‘I’m sorry, ma’am. I’m Ken Rozenboom and I just got a telemarketing call from this number,’ and she said: ‘Oh, I get those all the time. I’m so sick of it!” And then I said: ‘Well, the rest of the story is I’m Senator Ken Rozenboom. I’m actually going to drop a bill in the Iowa Senate today to try to get away from this fraudulent use of peopel’s phone numbers.”

It’s against the federal “Truth in Caller ID Act” to make such misrepresentations, but the practice is widespread and is now known as spoofing. Rozenboom is sponsoring legislation that makes it a crime to use “false or misleading” numbers when making calls to Iowans. Rozenboom says officials in the Iowa attorney general’s office have told him it could be another legal tool for going after telemarketers preying on — and annoying — Iowans. “Whether it’ll actually make a difference or not I think is a matter of technology,” Rozenboom says. “I sure hope it does.”

If the bill becomes law, the fine would be 40-thousand dollars PER call. The bill cleared an Iowa Senate subcommittee Thursday. Rozenboom says as he walked out of that subcommittee meeting, his phone cell phone rang. It was another one of THOSE calls.

(Radio Iowa)