Dennis Bowman Gets Decades for Murdering Adopted Daughter

A Michigan man who was already serving a life sentence for murdering a lady in 1980 has been sentenced to many years in jail for the 1989 homicide of his adopted daughter.

Dennis Bowman, 75, pleaded no contest in December to homicide expenses within the demise of Aundria Bowman. Bowman and his wife had adopted Aundria when she was a child, and in keeping with experiences, she was 14 when she disappeared from the household’s residence in March 1989.

Her stays had been present in a shallow grave in February of 2020, in keeping with a report by native NBC affiliate WOOD TV.

Bowman allegedly confessed in November 2019 to killing Aundria and hiding her stays.

Based on a WOOD TV report, Bowman stated in a press release on the time:

“Pricey family and friends, due to my current scenario, as a result of I really like my wife and daughter, I’m scripting this rationalization that you simply my family members have to listen to. I’ve confessed to the demise of my daughter Aundria. I personally and nobody else. In an argument together with her I struck her, which made her stagger backward and fall down a steep staircase in a home we rented in between Holland and Hamilton. Fearing extra jail time and shedding my family members, I hid the physique after which disposed of it days later. I’ve stored this to myself for these a few years in order that I might reside my life with Brenda and watch Vanessa develop right into a profitable younger girl. Please with all love I ask you to assist Brenda as a result of I’ve crushed her coronary heart and left her desolate. She didn’t deserve this and has at all times beloved me past measures.”

In February 2021, Bowman’s wife Brenda Bowman testified that Bowman admitted to her that their daughter was useless and that it was “his fault,” in keeping with WOOD TV.

Brenda Bowman stated that her husband informed her that he put Aundria in a field and put her out with the trash, in keeping with the report.

At Bowman’s sentencing listening to Monday, Allegan County Circuit Choose Margaret Zuzich Bakker stated that Bowman is a harmful man who should be stored behind bars.

“Mr. Bowman will not be protected to be in our group,” Bakker stated, in keeping with a WOOD TV report. “His quite a few assaults, his habits on this case, different convictions all point out Mr. Bowman is a severe, harmful man that has harmed many communities, many households. It’s not possible to even articulate the phrases to explain what he has accomplished. Studying what he has accomplished is sickening.”

On the time Bowman confessed to killing Aundria, he was serving a life sentence for the 1980 killing of Kathleen O’ Brien Doyle, 25, in keeping with WOOD TV.

Doyle was discovered useless in her residence on Sept. 11, 1980, native information web site MLive reported. She was stabbed with a knife and choked with a twine, in keeping with the report.

She was the daughter of a naval officer and wife of a U.S. Navy pilot who was deployed on the time, MLive reported.

When Bowman was arrested for Doyle’s homicide, Allegan County Sheriff Frank Baker stated that police had been conscious that Aundria had gone lacking in 1989, however Bowman had not been linked to her disappearance at the moment, the MLive report stated.

WOOD TV reported that in February 2021, Bowman additionally confessed to a rape and assault incident in 1979. That sufferer was a 27-year-old girl from Holland, in keeping with the report.

[Image via Allegan County Sheriff’s Office.]

Have a tip we must always know? [email protected]