ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A former Allegan County man, who’s already in prison for a murder in Virginia, Monday was sentenced to 35 to 50 years in prison for killing his 14-year-old adopted daughter, who went missing in 1989.
Dennis Lee Bowman was sentenced in Allegan County Circuit Court. He plead no contest to second-degree murder in December 2021. He originally was charged with open murder, felony murder, first-degree child abuse and mutilation of a body.
Aundria Bowman disappeared from her home in Allegan County’s Fillmore Township in March 1989.
February 4, 2020 police found skeletal remains in the 3200 block of 136th Avenue in Monterey Township, near Bowman’s home. The remains were identified as Aundria.
Three months before police found the remains, Bowman was taken into custody by Virginia police for charges related to a 1980 homicide of 25-year-old Kathleen Doyle in Norfolk, Virginia.
While in custody for the Virginia murder, Bowman reportedly confessed to killing his adopted daughter.
Bowman was also found guilty of assault in 1981 in Ottawa County and was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison but later released in 1986.
He was sentenced to a year in jail in Allegan County after pleading guilty to felony breaking and entering in 1998.
