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 ...
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 ...
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.