Helen Mae Bown, a 61-year-old widow, was last seen alive in her Marshalltown, Iowa, home on Monday, Oct. 2, 1973, and reported missing on Sunday, Oct. 7. Three weeks later on Halloween Day, state agents discovered her body on the bank of the Iowa River northwest of Montour in Tama County, about seven miles east of Marshalltown and two miles northeast of Le Grand.
Marshall County Attorney Ronald Kaiser announced the victim’s identity and apparent cause of death the following day at a 9 a.m. press conference. Though the victim apparently drowned, no evidence existed to determine whether manner of death was accidental or a homicide. The case is looked as an homicide by Iowa Cold Case Unit: Helen Bown
Here are more articles on the case: Case remains a mystery: Marshalltown woman's body found in Tama County in 1973
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Marshall County Attorney Ronald Kaiser announced the victim’s identity and apparent cause of death the following day at a 9 a.m. press conference. Though the victim apparently drowned, no evidence existed to determine whether manner of death was accidental or a homicide. The case is looked as an homicide by Iowa Cold Case Unit: Helen Bown
Here are more articles on the case: Case remains a mystery: Marshalltown woman's body found in Tama County in 1973
Cold Case Update: More details on death of Helen Mae Bown near Montour - TamaToledoNews.com | news, information, Iowa, Toledo Chronicle, Tama News-Herald
