The Ottumwa Police Department said Friday that the person only been known up until this point as "Des Moines River John Doe", has been identified as Timothy Fortney.
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. Conventionally, testing for fecal ...
In March 2022, detectives again submitted a DNA extract to Parabon Labs, where team members traced family lines back to the 1700s, leading investigators to a man named John Guillot Jr.