BELLEVUE, Iowa ( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - Lawyers for the family of an Iowa woman murdered by her estranged husband say that had it not been for Bellevue police officers’ “deliberate refusal to enforce the law” and “arrest their buddy,” the woman would be alive today.

The family of the late Angela Prichard sued the Bellevue city police in 2024 , arguing that despite Christopher Prichard’s well-established pattern of defying court orders and behaving in a threatening manner, city police repeatedly failed to enforce a no-contact order against him in the summer and fall of 2022.

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Oct. 8, 2022, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call from the Mississippi Ridge Kennels where Angela Prichard worked. When police arrived, Angela Prichard was found

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