Nearly three years after a femur bone was recovered from the Des Moines River near Keosauqua, DNA evidence has confirmed it belongs to a missing Ottumwa man. The Ottumwa Police Department and the ...
Once the leads dried up, the case went cold. Although it was out of the general public’s mind, officers and detectives at the PAPD never let it go. “It was a case that was always on somebody’s mind at ...
The Ottumwa Police Department said Friday that the person only known up until this point as "Des Moines River John Doe", has been identified as Timothy Fortney.