Sarah Ann Ottens

On March 13, 1973, 20-year-old Sarah Ann Ottens was found murdered in her University of Iowa dorm in Iowa City. Sarah was a nursing student from Morrison, Illinois, who worked in the cafeteria attached to the Medical School’s rehabilitation center for handicapped children. She was a pretty and vivacious young woman with many friends. Among those who loved her were her parents, Robert William and Myra Schaut Ottens; her paternal grandparents, Harriet Ten Boer and William Ottens; and her siblings Sandy, Scott, Sam, and Susan.

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Ten years later on March 13, 1983, a dead newborn infant was found along a rural road in Story County, Iowa. The child’s identity is unknown, but someone somewhere must remember and grieve.

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