State v. Greiman

LARSON, Justice.

Blair Justin Greiman appeals from his convictions and sentences for first-degree kidnapping (Iowa Code §§ 710.1(3) and 710.2) and attempted murder (§ 707.11). We affirm.

The victim was abducted from a store parking lot, driven to the farmhouse where the defendant lived, tied to a bed and sexually abused, then driven to a culvert on a nearby gravel road where she was ejected from the defendant’s car, knocked on the head, stabbed twice, and pushed off an embankment into the snow. Passersby who noticed her soon after summoned an ambulance and police. Despite a considerable loss of…