AVA, Mo. – For the first time in over 20 years, police in a rural town in southern Missouri are investigating a homicide.
An Ava, Missouri, man has been charged with killing a man from Springfield.
According to the Ava Police Department, officers were sent to a home in the 400 block of Bunch Avenue on Aug. 15 in response to a fight. Officers found the victim, Dale Hansen, “obviously deceased” inside the house with a knife wound. Hansen was 48…