BOSWELL, MEGAN: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Little Evelyn Boswell: Her babysitter was the last person to see the toddler on December 10th 2019. And she wasn’t reported missing for more than two months. And the person that finally did raise the alarm wasn’t even the baby’s mother. True Crime Recaps: The Mysterious Case of Baby Evelyn Boswell, Youtube 13.25, 2023
Megan Boswell was 17 when she gave birth to Evelyn; her boyfriend and Evelyn’s father Ethan Perry was stationed on an army base in Louisiana when his daughter went missing. ibid.
Megan’s stories weren’t adding up … The TBI took Megan into custody and they charged her with filing false police reports; they were sick of her games. ibid.
Her concerned grandfather Tommy: he said that there was a shed in his backyard that might be of interest to investigators … Sheriff Cassidy addressed the media afterwards confirming that they had found the body of a 15-month-old girl. ibid.
Megan changes her story once again: she claims that she and her boyfriend were sleeping with Evelyn when one of them rolled over and smothered the girl. ibid.
Autopsy: this was not an accidental death; this was a homicide. ibid.
BOSTON BOMBING: see TSARNAEV BROTHERS
BOSTON STRANGLER: see DE SALVO, ALBERT
BOWLER, SHEILA [viz Miscarriages of Justice]: Trial & Error TV - Evidence-Based Justice Lab online -
Jane Bowler’s mother has been sentenced to life for murder … For the first time Trial & Error returns to a case we first examined two years ago. Because the Appeal Court we believe is as misguided and misinformed as the original trial which branded her a murderer. Trial & Error: Sheila, Bowler, Channel 4 1995
Sheila Bowler is a widow, a music teacher and according to the law a callous killer … Sheila Bowler picked up her late husband’s aunt Flo from Grayfriars, the home which looked after the 89 year old lady. ibid.
Aunt Flo was gone. The police were called and there was a limited search of the area. ibid.
The motive police thought was money. ibid.
1992: At Sheila Bowler’s trial the defence team relied on the fact that the prosecution had nothing to prove their case. ibid.
We began to investigate the possibility, never properly pursued at trial, that she in fear in panic walked off into the night alone and to her death. ibid.
Sheila Bowler was found guilty of the murder of her late husband’s aunt, Florrie Jackson. Sheila had recently become the beneficiary of Florrie’s will and as such police had reason to believe she killed her. Sheila claimed she had collected Florrie from her nursing home but on the way home had car issues and had walked to a house to find help. Florrie then vanished and her body was found by police in a river 800 yards from where she went missing. Police found it unlikely Florrie would have been able to walk to the river and so ruled out accidental drowning. On appeal, evidence was introduced from experts who stated that although unlikely it would not have been impossible for Florrie (who had mobility issues) to walk to the river. Evidence was also introduced from Florrie’s GP who felt that Florrie was more active and better able to walk than the trial suggested. The conviction was quashed, and Sheila was found not guilty at a retrial. Evidence-Based Justice Lab online article
BOWLES, GARY RAY: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In May 1994 the body of 72-year-old World War II veteran Milton Bradley was discovered on a golf course in Savannah, Georgia. He’s been savagely murdered by a mysterious stranger who vanished without a trace. The killer was Gary Ray Bowles, a 32-year-old transient with an apparent hatred of gay men. He would go on to claim two more victims after Milton Bradley. After slaying more victims with impunity up and down the I-95 highway, Bowles was finally apprehended. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e6: Gary Ray Bowles: The I-95 Killer, Sky Crime 2021
Bowles had taken the lives of six men across three states. ibid.
BOWLING, JONATHAN & ASHLEY FOSTER: Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
It’s Christmas Eve. A man is found with horrific injuries at the road side … He is 68-year-old Alan Greaves. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e5, Netflix 2023
‘They’d seen two offenders running away through the park laughing at the time.’ ibid. rozzer
Detectives have been alerted to a burglary of two pickaxes just half a mile from the crime scene Christmas Eve. ibid.
Police release the [CCTV] footage and wait … ibid.
BOWMAN, HARRY TACO: Gangstas: America’s Most Wanted TV - St Petersburg Times online -
‘Taco really took the war to the Hell’s Angels.’ Gangsters: America’s Most Wanted: The Ultimate Outlaw: Harry Taco Bowman, expert, 2012
For seventeen years the leader of this pack was one Harry Bowman. They called him Taco. The FBI called him a gangster ... indicted for murder, attempted murder and violent racketeering acts. (Gangs: US & Murder & Motorbike) ibid.
Each indictment led to cooperation from another Outlaw. ibid.
After the 25-minute hearing, Bowman smiled to his lawyer, shook his hand and walked slowly out of the courtroom, with deputy US marshals leading the way. Neither his family nor any Outlaws came for the sentencing.
US District Judge James S Moody junior also ordered Bowman, leader of the Outlaws gang for 15 years, to pay $18,000 in restitution to the widow of one of the men he ordered killed. In April, a jury convicted Bowman of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder.
At his trial, Bowman looked like a bespectacled businessman, decked out in a dark suit with his hair nicely styled. On Friday, he had on an orange jail jumpsuit, exposing his tattooed forearms. His hair was combed back and he sported a variation on a goatee, letting facial hair grow on his chin and the sides of his mouth.
When Moody asked if he wanted to say anything on his own behalf before being sentenced, Bowman declined.
As leader of the Outlaws, Bowman controlled one of the largest motorcycle clubs in the country. When indicted in 1997, Bowman eluded authorities for 18 months despite his inclusion on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Authorities caught up to him when he visited his family in Michigan, where he had enrolled his girls in private school and drove an armor-plated Cadillac.
The case against Bowman hinged on testimony from former Outlaws. Most came to the courthouse from prison cells, having cut deals to have their sentences reduced for helping put Bowman away. They wore long goatees reaching to their chests, hair pulled back in pony tails, tattoos running up under their shirt sleeves.
At times, the admitted drug dealers, rapists and hit men charmed the courtroom with a mix of morbid humor and stories worthy of an R-rated Hollywood script. One talked of stabbing 13 men to extricate himself from the bottom of a bar fight. Another told of how he shot a man multiple times and then finished him off with a screwdriver. St Petersburg Times article 28th July 2001, ‘Motorcycle Gang Leader Gets Life’
BOYLE, JIMMY: A Sense of Freedom 1979 -
Husband: I’m in debt to a moneylender. Aye, and it’s Boyle. Jimmy Boyle
Wife [takes pay packet]: I’ll not expect you back then. A Sense of Freedom 1979 starring David Hayman & Jake D’Arcy & Sean Scanlan & Alex Norton & John Murtagh & Roy Hanlon & Martin Black & Fulton Mackay & Hector Nicol & Bill Barclay et al, director John Mackenzie
I don’t think I’ve come across anything as rotten … ibid. rozzer
James Boyle, you have been found guilty of a callous murder. I sentence you to imprisonment for life. You are a menace to society. ibid. Judge