Wife testifies husband admitted murdering adopted daughter Aundria Bowman

ALLEGAN, Mich. (WXMI) -- The 31-year-old cold case disappearance of Aundria Bowman was back in court Monday morning.

Prosecutors presented more information they say shows Dennis Bowman killed his 14-year-old adopted daughter Aundria in 1989.

Among those testifying in Allegan County District Court was Bowman's wife Brenda, who says Bowman admitted to her that he killed Aundria.

For years Bowman had been suspected in Aundria's disappearance.

In 2019, Dennis Bowman was charged in the 1980 homicide of a woman in Norfolk, Virginia.

In the Virginia investigation, police searched Bowman's property in Allegan County, Michigan, after receiving a tip a body was buried under concrete. Officers found remains, which were confirmed to be Aundria through DNA testing. Bowman was charged in May 2020 with murder, child abuse and mutilation of a dead body.

The Associated Press reports Brenda Bowman testified Monday that Dennis Bowman revealed the burial site last year before he was extradited to Norfolk for the Virginia murder. She said she immediately informed police.

An Allegan County judge found “ample evidence” to send Dennis Bowman to trial on a murder charge in the death of Aundria Bowman. Aundria was reported as a runaway in 1989.

Bowman, 71, said he pushed Aundria down stairs in 1989 after she threatened to report that he had molested her, Det. Sgt. Todd Workman of the state police testified, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Bowman pleaded guilty in the Virginia case and is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of Kathleen Doyle.