Feb 23, 2021
Witnesses told an Allegan County judge on Monday that a man accused of murdering his daughter over 30 years ago told his wife he was responsible for her death.
Fourteen-year-old Aundria Bowman vanished from her family s home in Fillmore Township on March 11, 1989.
Her remains were found in a shallow grave in February 2020.
Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Todd Workman testified on Monday that Bowman changed his story several times but admitted that he punched Aundria after he found her trying to run away and she died after falling down the stairs.
Bowman said he buried her instead of calling police and then reported her missing.
Brenda Bowman told police her husband confessed to killing and burying their adopted daughter in 1989 after he pushed her down the stairs for threatening to report that he had molested her.
Suspect in daughter’s 1989 killing tells wife her body was ‘right under your nose’
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
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Then, he was ready to talk.
“He said, ‘I hope your cameras are rolling,’” state police detective Sgt. Todd Workman testified Monday, Feb. 22, in Allegan County District Court.
Bowman, 71, told police that he had an argument with his daughter, Aundria, on March 11, 1989, at their home.
She said she was going to report that he had molested her. He told her that was a lie. Then, he pushed or punched her, causing her to take a fatal fall down the stairs, he told police.
Man convicted last year of killing woman in 1980 will now stand trial for death of his daughter, 14, who he pushed down the stairs, dismembered and buried under concrete in 1989 - after telling his wife: Her body was right under your nose
Dennis Bowman, 71, from Michigan, appeared in Allegan County District Court Monday where a judge ruled there was ample evidence to send him to trial
Bowman is charged with the murder of his adopted daughter Aundria Bowm who vanished back in 1989 when she was 14
Bowman s wife Brenda Bowman testified that her husband confessed to their daughter s murder in a prison phone call last year