The preliminary hearing for one of the five suspects accused of the murder of Iolan Shawn Cook will not occur before the new year.
Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway told the Register Wednesday that Rhonda Jackson — originally scheduled to have her preliminary hearing Dec. 2 — instead will have another status hearing that day.
Jackson, 50, is charged with first-degree murder, along with Amber Boeken, 25, Joshua Knapp, 35, James Myers, 60, and Jessica Epting, 33. Jackson, Myers, Epting and Boeken are from Iola; Knapp from Fort Scott.
Status hearings for all five…
Hearings in Cook case pushed to January
