A 1997 article from the Globe Gazette reporting on the link between Dustin Honken's methamphetamine distribution case and the disappearances of Greg Nicholson and the Duncan family.
On July 25, 2019, Attorney General William P. Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment by changing the drugs used in the federal death by injection protocol to pentobarbital.
One of the first five inmates scheduled to be executed in 2020 as the federal government resumes capital punishment is former Britt resident Dustin Lee Honken who, along with his then-girlfriend Angela Johnson of Clear Lake, shot Kandace and Amber Duncan, ages 10 and 6, their mother, Lori Duncan, 31, and Greg Nicholson, 34, and Terry DeGeus, 32, because he thought they could be potential witnesses to his multi-state drug ring.
What follows is a timeline of events in the decades-long case which begins with Honken's arrest on drug charges related to methamphetamine trafficking.
Timeline
March 21, 1993 — Britt native Dustin Honken and Timothy Cutkomp, formerly of Mason City, are arrested in Mason City on drug charges.
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Dustin Honken, 52, would become the first Iowa defendant to to be put to death since 1963 if he is executed as scheduled on Friday.
A 1997 article from the Globe Gazette reporting on the link between Dustin Honken's methamphetamine distribution case and the disappearances of Greg Nicholson and the Duncan family.
