Judge moves murder trial
The trial of a former Alta Vista man charged in the death of his infant son will be held in Henry County this fall after a district court judge ordered a change of venue.Zachary Paul Koehn’s first-degree murder and child endangerment trial is now set to begin on Oct. 29 in Mount Pleasant.The 28-year-old Koehn, whose 4-month old son Sterling died in late August, and his attorneys had requested the trial be moved because they said he could not receive a fair trial in Chickasaw County because of the amount of publicity surrounding the case.Prosecutors did not challenge the defense motion, but they did ask that the case be tried in a county with the same demographics as Chickasaw County.— For more on this story, see the June 19 New Hampton Tribune.