MASON CITY – A clearly demented criminal invaded the site of a fatal accident scene and stole all the items there this weekend, and Mason City police are looking to have a conversation with the culprits.
“Over the weekend, these items were removed and/or stolen from the memorial site for Jenny Vrba on Plymouth Road. If you have information about this incident, please contact MCPD at 641-421-3636. Thank you for your help in helping to recover these items for her family.”
Mark Vrba posted after the crime:
So this happened…
There are so many battles you should never have to fight…We shouldn’t have to be dealing with the loss of Jenny… dealing with the fact that someone else took her life… and now this…
The picture on the right was Jenny‘s crash site this morning around 8 AM. The picture on the left is how it is looked every day before. Someone decided to make the premeditated choice to go out there with bolt cutters and cut the ghost bike down and steal it along with all of our memorial items between 11pm and 8am.
I’m at a loss. On a day we were supposed to be celebrating our love for her at the second annual Jenny Buls-Vrba memorial run we had to wake up to this and deal with this and suffer this… it feels like a secondary loss… like I lost a piece of my Jenny again. I’m hurt, I’m angry, I’m confused, I’m shocked but most of all I am just brokenhearted.
The crook(s) took pretty much everything from the memorial site.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, an accident took place Wednesday, July 24, 2024. At about 6:12 PM that evening, a 2004 GMC Envoy driven by 17-year-old Jade Danielle Quam of Mason City was traveling southbound in the 1500 block of Plymouth Road when the vehicle struck a pedestrian. The person was identified as 42-year-old Jennifer Dawn Buls-Vrba of Mason City. She was transported by ambulance to Mercy One hospital but was later pronounced deceased.