Sandra Jo Pittman
Sandra Jo Pittman
Homicide
17 YOA
Highway 30 Rest Area
Clarence, IA
Cedar County
September 17, 1980
Case Summary
At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, September 17, 1980, Sandra Jo Pittman’s body was discovered at a Highway 30 rest area in Cedar County one mile west of Clarence, Iowa. Chicago & North Western railroad workers found the 17-year-old teen — clad in yellow slacks and an unbuttoned white blouse — but the victim carried no identification and her identity was not immediately known.
An autopsy concluded the young woman died from blows to the head from a heavy object such as a claw hammer or crowbar, with time of death estimated as sometime late Tuesday the 16th or early Wednesday between midnight and 7 a.m.
The autopsy report indicated the victim may also have been strangled, but was not sexually assaulted.
Investigators believed the girl was killed elsewhere and dumped at the rest area.
Cedar County in Iowa
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