GAFFNEY, Crystal Marie 1985-2014

GAFFNEY, OBRIEN, HOGAN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/22/2015 at 23:47:10

[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Thursday, July 17, 2014]

WATERLOO - Crystal Marie Gaffney, 29, of Waterloo, died Wednesday, July 9, 2014, outside Walker, from a homicide.

She was born March 28, 1985, in Des Moines, daughter of Maureen O’Brien and Geoffrey Gaffney.

Crystal received her GED from Hawkeye Community College and was a homemaker.

Survived by three daughters, Brooklyn and Mia Gaffney and Nevaeh Hogan, all of Waterloo; her father of Anamosa; her uncle, John Maynard of Belton, Texas; and an aunt, Jamie Hall of North Carolina.

Preceded in death by her mother; paternal grandmother, Ruth Gaffney; and an uncle, Jay Gaffney.

Private family services will be Friday at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway.

Memorials may be directed to Veridian Credit Union Crystal Gaffney Benefit Account for her daughters.

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[The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 10, 2014]

The death of a woman found near Walker has been ruled a homicide.

According to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the State Medical Examiner said that 29-year-old Crystal M. Gaffney died as a result of blunt force trauma. The father of Gaffney’s young child, 36-year-old Shaun M. Hogan, has been charged with first-degree murder in the woman’s death.

Both Gaffney and Hogan are from Waterloo. Authorities have not said how Gaffney’s body wound up in Linn County, where Hogan was charged. He is being held without bail and will make his initial appearance Friday morning.

Investigators were called to Linn-Buchanan Avenue around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday for a report of an unresponsive woman found in the road. Responding authorities found the Gaffney fully clothed, lying in the gravel road with multiple, unspecified injuries.

Later that day, an Amber Alert was issued for Gaffney’s three children. The three girls were later found in Waterloo, police said. Hogan was named a suspect in their disappearance and authorities said he was considered dangerous.

Earlier in the day Thursday, Sheriff Brian Gardner said Hogan was a person investigators were interested in speaking with in relation to the death investigation. Officers with the Waterloo Police Department and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation took Hogan into Waterloo Thursday afternoon and interviewed him.
Gardner said Gaffney and Hogan’s relationship at the time of her death is not currently known. However, the two were scheduled to appear in court together. According to onlline court records, Hogan filed a petition for relief from domestic abuse involving Gaffney on June 30. A hearing on the matter was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

First-degree murder is a Class A felony punishable by up life in prison.

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