On August 8, 1995, Connie Jo Choate Bodensteiner was found locked in a basement storage bin at a south-side Des Moines apartment complex. An autopsy showed the 24-year-old had been strangled. A maintenance worker discovered the body, which had a strap or belt around the neck.
Bodensteiner’s mother said her daughter had run into problems before she was killed. She had been arrested four times on prostitution charges and once on a drug-related charge. Bodensteiner and her husband, Michael Bodensteiner, had a stormy marriage and separated in 1992.
Authorities initially explored a possible connection with Bodensteiner’s murder and that of 37-year-old Angela Buck of Waterloo, whose body was found the day after Bodensteiner’s. Both had records of prostitution and once worked for the same person. Officials later determined the two women’s deaths were not connected.
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If you have information about Connie Jo Choate Bodensteiner’s death, please call the Des Moines Police Department at (515) 283-4864 or the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010.
