![]() With no foul play suspected, the police labeled Aundria a runaway and passed her case along to the Youth Services Bureau. That was enough for police to issue a warrant for Aundria’s arrest for larceny the warrant listed Dennis as the victim of his daughter’s alleged crime. It was Brenda who called the police regularly, and Brenda who corrected the amount of cash missing from her husband’s dresser to $150. But his wife soon took over as the family’s point of contact. Dennis described Aundria-whom he and Brenda had adopted when she was an infant-as a troubled teenager who frequently fought with her mother and had run away to a friend’s house once before.ĭennis agreed to call around to the homes of kids Aundria knew to find out if anyone had seen her. He told them that he’d come home from his job as a wood machinist to find Aundria missing, along with some of her belongings and $100 from his dresser. ![]() For the Bowmans, March 11 marked the last time they saw their 14-year-old daughter, Aundria, alive.ĭennis was the one who contacted the police. It belonged to Dennis and Brenda Bowman, a married couple with two children. Fathers who worked weekends drove pickup trucks to industrial jobs at local automotive and concrete companies.īut all was not well in the house on the corner of Lincoln Road and 52nd Street. ![]() Mothers poured milk over cereal for kids watching back-to-back episodes of their favorite cartoons. Frost on the ladders of the city’s water towers thawed in the sun-spring was just over a week away. Published in August 2021.įor most residents of Holland, Michigan, there was nothing remarkable about March 11, 1989, a Saturday. Listen to Nile Cappello discuss the process of reporting this story on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast. Nile Cappello is a journalist, screenwriter, and producer whose work has appeared in HuffPost, Rolling Stone, Vice, and other publications. ![]()
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