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MOM TELLS COPS ICY BODIES IN FREEZER ARE HER KIDS

 

LUSBY, Maryland (AP) — A mother told police that child-sized human remains uncovered in her basement freezer were those of her two adopted daughters, and police believe that she is responsible for their deaths.

 

Renee Bowman, 43, told police the bodies of two of her children were in the freezer since February.

 

Police were investigating an abuse complaint Saturday when they discovered the remains encased in ice.

 

The mother told investigators that they had been in her southern Maryland home for at least seven months, and police said they are considering the case a homicide.

 

“We have reason to believe that’s the two children in the freezer,” Lt. Bobby Jones of Calvert County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. “We believe that the mother, who adopted the two children, is responsible for it.”

 

Autopsies would need to be completed before they know for sure that the remains are of the girls, who would be 9 and 11.

 

Deputies made the gruesome discovery in the home in Lusby, about 50 miles southeast of Washington. They were there with a search warrant to investigate the treatment of a girl who had run away and “showed signs of extreme abuse and neglect,” the sheriff’s department said.

 

The girl’s mother, 43-year-old Renee Bowman, has been arrested, and a judge has ordered her held without bail.

 

She is charged with first-degree child abuse in the beating of the runaway 7-year-old, who was found wandering in the neighborhood wearing only a blood- and feces-soaked T-shirt.

 

The girl escaped from a locked bedroom by jumping out a second-story window, and Bowman admitted beating her with a “hard-heeled shoe,” officials said.

 

Bowman told detectives that she brought the remains in the freezer with her to Lusby when she moved from Rockville, about 60 miles away, in February. Montgomery County Police are investigating whether the deaths took place in Rockville. Bowman has not been charged in the older girls’ deaths.

 

It is not clear how the children might have died. The medical examiner’s office in Baltimore was to examine the freezer and its contents. It was unclear how long it would take for autopsies to be completed.

 

Authorities said Bowman adopted three children from the District of Columbia. Officials said the older girls’ whereabouts are unknown. Montgomery County Police said detectives are trying to pin down when the older girls were last seen alive, as well as where the family was living and when.

 

According to charging documents drawn up before the remains were discovered, the 7-year-old went door-to-door looking for help after jumping from the window Friday night. A neighbor gave her clothes and called 911.

 

The girl had open sores and lesions on her buttocks and lower thighs, marks on her neck made by a cord, rope or other item and bruises on her hands and lips. She told investigators her mother caused the injuries and that she jumped out the window to “free herself from her mother’s relentless beatings,” according to the documents. She is being cared for by child protective services.

 

No one was home when authorities arrived at the modest single-story house in the secluded, heavily wooded subdivision with narrow gravel roads. Bowman showed up later at the sheriff’s office and said she had locked her daughter in the girl’s bedroom while she went to D.C.

 

Bowman told the deputy who interviewed her about the 7-year-old’s abuse “that she knew what she did was wrong,” according to the charging documents. “She advised [bowman] was out of control and needed help.”

 

Sheriff Mike Evans said the surviving girl was never enrolled in Calvert County Schools. He said that neighbors had seen her and that no trouble had ever been reported at the house. Bowman’s only contact with the sheriff’s department since she arrived was a traffic stop.

 

No attorney had entered an appearance on Bowman’s behalf Monday afternoon. Dorothy Hodge, deputy district public defender for Calvert County, said an attorney from the office would interview Bowman to determine whether she wanted to be represented.

Nice.

I heard (quite loudly) within my mind something like the sound of one of those electric 'synthesizers' from the 1920's glissing (or sliding) up and down with the rhythm (I say synthesizer for lack of a better word...I'm talking bout the gadget that makes the spooky sound in old movies or the like...triggered by bringing your hands closer to it and further from it).

Just in case you still wanted to know what that instrument's called it's a Theramin. My fiance made a miniature one earlier this year which led to whole minutes of entertainment.

Just been playing Rock Band.

I couldn't hear it in the true sense of the word but I definitely got the 'feel' of sound from it, if that makes any sense. It was like laboured breathing and a very odd sensation.

That takes a special kind of stupid, really.

Well apart from sounding like Event Horizon - The Game this is one of the games I'm most looking forward to this year, survival horror in space. If you haven't heard of it already then check out the Official Home Page.

The reason I mention it is that I just discovered that J.G. Hertzler is doing some of the voice acting in it as mentioned on the IMDb.

An even better reason to get this game.

Very sad, I think I'll have to dig out my copy of Butch Cassidy tomorrow for a little tribute session.

DS9, although I preferred the version from the earlier seasons before they put the beat in.

I never thought it did. I liked some individual episodes and the EMH but I found that I didn't like the rest of the crew enough. Either I didn't like them to begin with but they got better or I liked them to begin with and they became more and more irritating *cough*Chakotay*cough*.

Jadzia Dax...just...yeah.

Green tea as my espresso machine is out of bounds after midnight.

Trekkiness: 113

 

The Trekkie Test

ranks me as a(n) Commander

 

What does it mean?

 

You know Trek, and you love it. You may not dress up in uniform every day, but you're dedicated to your series, or two, and happy with being entertained by it.

I'm happy with that.

Trying to decide what game to play as I'm too much of a coward to play Condemned on my own at 1.30am.

I picked search engine although it was in a slightly more roundabout way as it was through a Google image search.

I was watching It's Only A Paper Moon yesterday (the episode where Nog lives in the Vic Fontaine holosuite programme while working through his PTSD) and it made me wonder:

Where was the bathroom? He was there for several weeks without leaving so where did he go to answer the 'call of doody'?

Interesting: You Scored as Federation

You Are The Federation, You prefer to be alone and learn. You enjoy helping people and know how to talk things up. You would help people into the spotlight before yourself.

Federation 90%

Borg 80%

Dominion 60%

Klingon 55%

Romulan 55%

Cardassia 50%

Ferengi 40%

Vulcan 35%

That doesn't sound much like me at all. I particularly like how it took 'Prefer solitude - disagree' and the other one similar to mean I enjoy being alone.

Very dark brown.

It has to be Quark, he's devious and quite the criminal mastermind when he puts his mind to it but virtually always fails.

With. When you look back at the earlier episodes he does just look weird without it.

Currently listening to Radiohead's In Rainbows. I forgot how much I love this band.

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It would pretty much be a real world version of how I play video games. 'Oh, I fell to my death, best try it once more just in case', 'Hmm, that ended in an horrific death, maybe I'll walk around the bonfire next time'. I think a fear of death and injury is healthy and without it I think we'd lose appreciation for a lot of things.

Sorry to backtrack but is there a facebook group up and running yet? I just had a look and couldn't see any likely suspects.

P.S. Maybe you're not a Trekkie but you're clearly a Trek sympathiser.

I'll be honest and say that I haven't seen all of them (particularly the more recent ones) but I've been a fan of The Wrath of Khan since childhood so I went with that.

William or Will for short.