I remember this. Now I wonder if Bowman was involved.Here is yet another Virginia Beach case. This one from 1989, the same year Aundria Bowman was murdered and buried by Dennis Bowman. Note that this case is handled by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). This young woman, like Dennis Bowman, served in the US Navy.
Charlene Marie Villinger, age 30
Villinger, circa 1989
Details of Disappearance
- Missing Since 09/04/1989
- Missing From Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Sex Female
- Race White
- Date of Birth 09/17/1958 (63)
- Age 30 years old
- Height and Weight 5'6, 156 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A white t-shirt, white pants with blue and red dots, a gold necklace and a gold and diamond cluster wedding ring.
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Villinger has a tattoo of a pink panther on her left shoulder blade. Her ears are pierced.
Villinger was last seen in Virginia Beach, Virginia on September 4, 1989. After 10:00 p.m., her husband returned to their home in the 900 block of Penhook Court and discovered she was missing.
There were no indications of a struggle, Villinger's car was parked in the driveway, and none of her personal belongings had disappeared. A large quilt with the image of an olive branch and an eagle with its wings spread was missing, however.
Villinger has never been heard from again. She was a student at Tidewater Community College at the time of her disappearance. Few details are available in her case.
Investigating Agency
LINKS:
- Virginia Beach Police Department 757-385-4023
- Naval Criminal Investigative Service 757-462-2488
Charlene Marie Villinger – The Charley Project
VA - VA - Charlene Marie Villinger, 30, Virginia Beach, 4 Sept 1989
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Another Virginia Beach, VA missing person...
Kim Ann Gonzalez
Gonzalez, circa 1997
Gonzalez was last seen in the 500 block of Pine Song Lane in Virginia Beach, Virginia on April 9, 1997. She has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.
Investigating Agency
Kim Ann Gonzalez
Gonzalez, circa 1997
- Missing Since 04/09/1997
- Missing From Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Sex Female
- Race White
- Date of Birth 11/07/1959 (62)
- Age 37 years old
- Height and Weight 5'5, 100 pounds
- Medical Conditions Gonzalez may be in need of medical attention for unspecified reasons.
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes.
Gonzalez was last seen in the 500 block of Pine Song Lane in Virginia Beach, Virginia on April 9, 1997. She has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.
Investigating Agency
- Virginia Beach Police Department 757-385-2700
Here is yet another unsolved murder from the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. Note that this was near Little Creek Naval Base.
Brenda Joi Bancroft, age 20
Murdered 24 December 1979
On Monday evening, December 24, 1979, Brenda Bancroft was last seen by her family in the 4100 block of Thalia Drive. She had left her parent’s home driving her 1978 orange Datsun B-210 sedan and was due home later the same evening. She attended a Christmas Party at Admiral Nicks Restaurant located in the 8100 block of Shore Drive in Norfolk, VA.
A missing persons report was filed by family members. On Friday, December 28, 1979, Ms. Bancroft’s deceased body was found in the 500 block of Spring Lake Crescent which is a short distance from her home. Her body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office where the cause of death was determined to be suffocation. As a result, Brenda’s death was ruled a homicide.
Brenda was a 20 year old white female who had light brown hair, blue eyes, 5’ 5’’ tall weighing 153 pounds. When Brenda did not wear her contacts, she wore prescription glasses.
LINKS:
Brenda Joi Bancroft :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unresolved...erial_killer_from_my_hometown_virginia_beach/
Brenda Joi Bancroft - Virginia Beach Crime Solvers
Brenda Joi Bancroft (1959-1979) - Find a Grave...
VA - Brenda Joi Bancroft, 20, Murdered 24 December 1979, Norfolk, Virginia
Brenda Joi Bancroft, age 20
Murdered 24 December 1979
On Monday evening, December 24, 1979, Brenda Bancroft was last seen by her family in the 4100 block of Thalia Drive. She had left her parent’s home driving her 1978 orange Datsun B-210 sedan and was due home later the same evening. She attended a Christmas Party at Admiral Nicks Restaurant located in the 8100 block of Shore Drive in Norfolk, VA.
A missing persons report was filed by family members. On Friday, December 28, 1979, Ms. Bancroft’s deceased body was found in the 500 block of Spring Lake Crescent which is a short distance from her home. Her body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office where the cause of death was determined to be suffocation. As a result, Brenda’s death was ruled a homicide.
Brenda was a 20 year old white female who had light brown hair, blue eyes, 5’ 5’’ tall weighing 153 pounds. When Brenda did not wear her contacts, she wore prescription glasses.
LINKS:
Brenda Joi Bancroft :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unresolved...erial_killer_from_my_hometown_virginia_beach/
Brenda Joi Bancroft - Virginia Beach Crime Solvers
Brenda Joi Bancroft (1959-1979) - Find a Grave...
VA - Brenda Joi Bancroft, 20, Murdered 24 December 1979, Norfolk, Virginia
A 1985 unsolved homicide:
Rafaella G. Bryant, age 20
Murdered 16 July 1985
On Tuesday, July 16, 1985 at 5:30 am, Virginia Beach 9-1-1 received a report of a car fire in the 4100 block of First Court Road. The Fire Department along with Police responded and found a vehicle completely consumed with fire. Once the fire was extinguished, a body was found inside the passenger compartment of a 1972 green Dodge Swinger with a vinyl top bearing a Pennsylvania license plate. Fire and Police investigators converged on the scene and began a very exhaustive investigation. Fire investigators discovered the fire was intentionally set after the car was driven into the field where it was found.
The body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy. The cause of death was asphyxia and the manner a homicide. The body was identified as Raffaella G. Bryant, a mother, who worked at an oceanfront restaurant, the Lemon Tree, located at 18th Street and Atlantic Avenue. She had last been seen leaving her employment around midnight to pick her son up at the babysitters and before returning home. Raffaella’s purse was found along Shore Drive about a mile from Atlantic Avenue.
Raffaella was a 20 year old white female who had dark brown eyes with black hair. She was 5’6’’ tall weighing 125 pounds.
LINKS:
Rafaella G. Bryant :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
VA - Rafaella G. Bryant, 20, Murdered 16 July 1985 in Virginia Beach, VA
Rafaella G. Bryant, age 20
Murdered 16 July 1985
On Tuesday, July 16, 1985 at 5:30 am, Virginia Beach 9-1-1 received a report of a car fire in the 4100 block of First Court Road. The Fire Department along with Police responded and found a vehicle completely consumed with fire. Once the fire was extinguished, a body was found inside the passenger compartment of a 1972 green Dodge Swinger with a vinyl top bearing a Pennsylvania license plate. Fire and Police investigators converged on the scene and began a very exhaustive investigation. Fire investigators discovered the fire was intentionally set after the car was driven into the field where it was found.
The body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy. The cause of death was asphyxia and the manner a homicide. The body was identified as Raffaella G. Bryant, a mother, who worked at an oceanfront restaurant, the Lemon Tree, located at 18th Street and Atlantic Avenue. She had last been seen leaving her employment around midnight to pick her son up at the babysitters and before returning home. Raffaella’s purse was found along Shore Drive about a mile from Atlantic Avenue.
Raffaella was a 20 year old white female who had dark brown eyes with black hair. She was 5’6’’ tall weighing 125 pounds.
LINKS:
Rafaella G. Bryant :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
VA - Rafaella G. Bryant, 20, Murdered 16 July 1985 in Virginia Beach, VA
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Very interesting. This peaked my curiosity. Checked out the older post from an above thread. Then I took a look at the VB Cold Case Unit. There were possible additional female victims for that time period. As we all know not only were the 1970's and 1980's a nationwide turbulent crime time, we were also on the cusp of forensic transition. I lived near VB during some of the time period and also went to Tidewater Community College for a photography course. I remember that they wanted females to be walked to their cars and/or classes. If anyone knows more about these cases please post.
Note: This unsolved murder occurred during Operation Desert Storm, at a time when many Naval Reservists had been called up to active duty.
Michele Dewitt Pore, 44
Murdered 18 February 1991 in Virginia Beach, VA
On Monday, February 18, 1991 at 10:15 pm, Michele Pore was seen by friends leaving a restaurant, Paesano, near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Virginia Beach Blvd. to return to her business. Her office building is located in the 600 block of Lynnhaven Parkway. She was known to work late hours. She was seen alone getting into her Maroon Dodge Aeries “K” car bearing Virginia License and driving out of the parking lot.
On Tuesday, February 19, 1991, a family member reported Michele missing after she had not returned home from work the previous day. Her vehicle was found in the parking lot of the business where she was employed. Police found her body in the trunk of the car deceased. Michele’s body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy. The death was ruled a homicide.
Michelle was a 44 year old white female who had brown shoulder length hair, brown eyes and was 5’ 0’’ tall weighing 165 pounds.
LINKS:
Michele Dewitt Pore - Virginia Beach Crime Solvers
Michele Dewitt Pore :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
https://www.wavy.com/news/local-new...olice-ready-to-solve-30-year-old-murder-case/
Michele Dewitt Foulk Pore (1946-1991) - Find a...
VA - Michelle Dewitt Pore, 44,Virginia Beach, 1991
Michele Dewitt Pore, 44
Murdered 18 February 1991 in Virginia Beach, VA
On Monday, February 18, 1991 at 10:15 pm, Michele Pore was seen by friends leaving a restaurant, Paesano, near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Virginia Beach Blvd. to return to her business. Her office building is located in the 600 block of Lynnhaven Parkway. She was known to work late hours. She was seen alone getting into her Maroon Dodge Aeries “K” car bearing Virginia License and driving out of the parking lot.
On Tuesday, February 19, 1991, a family member reported Michele missing after she had not returned home from work the previous day. Her vehicle was found in the parking lot of the business where she was employed. Police found her body in the trunk of the car deceased. Michele’s body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy. The death was ruled a homicide.
Michelle was a 44 year old white female who had brown shoulder length hair, brown eyes and was 5’ 0’’ tall weighing 165 pounds.
LINKS:
Michele Dewitt Pore - Virginia Beach Crime Solvers
Michele Dewitt Pore :: VBgov.com - City of Virginia Beach
https://www.wavy.com/news/local-new...olice-ready-to-solve-30-year-old-murder-case/
Michele Dewitt Foulk Pore (1946-1991) - Find a...
VA - Michelle Dewitt Pore, 44,Virginia Beach, 1991
I do not have any update on this specific DNA potential match. However, I recently spoke with a NCIS Cold Case Investigator about Dennis Bowman and his possible connection to some of these cases. They do have his DNA profile and they have been checking it against those cases where there DNA evidence is available.
There are many unsolved cases in the Virginia Beach/ Norfolk, VA area, some of which have been posted on this thread. I do not suggest that Dennis Bowman is responsible for all of them, but rather that he could be considered as a potential suspect in many of them. He is certainly not their only possible perpetrator, but he IS a known serial killer who has been convicted of two particularly gruesome and vicious murders. And he was free to move around and carry on his killings for many years. Since one of his murders was committed in Virginia Beach, it begs the question that he might have been responsible for others there as well.
Bumping this thread up.
Bowman's convictions for the 1980 murder of Kathleen Doyle and 1989 murder of Aundria Bowman are only the tip of the ice berg.
How many others were there? Who were they? And where did he hide those still missing?
Bowman's convictions for the 1980 murder of Kathleen Doyle and 1989 murder of Aundria Bowman are only the tip of the ice berg.
How many others were there? Who were they? And where did he hide those still missing?
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I agree that he could have more victims, but it seems unlikely that he would have remained in Virginia Beach after his release from prison in 1985; he would have been drummed out of the service by that time. For victims from 1985 till 2019, it makes more sense to look for victims in Michigan, IMO. For potential victims from the late 1960s till 1981, it makes sense to look for victims from both Michigan and the Virginia Beach area since we don't have a clear timeline for him from LE and don't know when he entered the naval reserves.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) was very involved in the Virginia Beach case (the Kathleen Doyle murder) so it is likely that LE in both Virginia and Michigan have his Naval Reserve record, or a summary of it.
Dennis Bowman, photo taken in 1980
Dennis Bowman is a Serial Killer, now serving sentences of Life in Prison for the murders of Kathleen O'Brien Doyle (Virginia Beach, VA 1980) and his own adopted daughter Aundria Bowman (Holland, MI 1989).
He was not caught and convicted of the first murder until 2019. It is highly likely that he began killing before 1980 and that he continued killing after 1989. If a good time line for his travels and residences could be drawn, perhaps other murders - and disappearances - could be connected to him.
Here are a few unsolved Michigan cases which others have suggested as potentially connected to Dennis Bowman:
- In 1970, Shelley Speet Mills, a 19-year-old newlywed, was stabbed to death in her apartment in Grand Rapids, 30 miles northeast of Holland. Mills’s mother, who’d driven to the city to take her daughter to lunch, found her body.
- In 1977, Deborah Polinsky, a 20-year-old Holland woman, was killed in what one newspaper called a “sex slaying.” After Polinsky failed to show up for work, a colleague found her stripped, sexually assaulted, and stabbed to death in her home, with her German shepherd standing guard over the body.
- In 1979 a violent attack was made on a 27-year-old woman who early on a Sunday morning was bound, gagged, and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home. The perpetrator took cash before fleeing the scene, and was described as a white man between 25 and 30 years old, with sandy hair and wire-rimmed glasses. He was estimated at five-foot-six and 150 pounds. According to the young woman, her assailant was wearing a leather jacket and dark pants. Forty years later, Dennis Bowman confessed to this crime.
- In about 1989 the following incidents took place:
A 13-year-old girl was nearly pulled off a Holland street by a stranger.
A nine-year-old girl on a bike was stopped by a man who opened his car door and asked repeatedly if she wanted to get ice cream.
Two siblings, aged nine and seven, were walking near Van Raalte Elementary School when they encountered a man they later estimated to be in his thirties. The suspect, who was driving a truck and wearing blue jeans and a blue winter jacket, offered the children money, then chased them on foot when they refused to get in his vehicle. The children later described the truck as shiny and red which matches the description of the vehicle Bowman drove at the time.
LINK:
magazine.atavist.com
- In 1970, Shelley Speet Mills, a 19-year-old newlywed, was stabbed to death in her apartment in Grand Rapids, 30 miles northeast of Holland. Mills’s mother, who’d driven to the city to take her daughter to lunch, found her body.
- In 1977, Deborah Polinsky, a 20-year-old Holland woman, was killed in what one newspaper called a “sex slaying.” After Polinsky failed to show up for work, a colleague found her stripped, sexually assaulted, and stabbed to death in her home, with her German shepherd standing guard over the body.
- In 1979 a violent attack was made on a 27-year-old woman who early on a Sunday morning was bound, gagged, and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home. The perpetrator took cash before fleeing the scene, and was described as a white man between 25 and 30 years old, with sandy hair and wire-rimmed glasses. He was estimated at five-foot-six and 150 pounds. According to the young woman, her assailant was wearing a leather jacket and dark pants. Forty years later, Dennis Bowman confessed to this crime.
- In about 1989 the following incidents took place:
A 13-year-old girl was nearly pulled off a Holland street by a stranger.
A nine-year-old girl on a bike was stopped by a man who opened his car door and asked repeatedly if she wanted to get ice cream.
Two siblings, aged nine and seven, were walking near Van Raalte Elementary School when they encountered a man they later estimated to be in his thirties. The suspect, who was driving a truck and wearing blue jeans and a blue winter jacket, offered the children money, then chased them on foot when they refused to get in his vehicle. The children later described the truck as shiny and red which matches the description of the vehicle Bowman drove at the time.
LINK:
The Girl in the Picture - The Atavist Magazine
A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.
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Although this case has been closed with the belief by LE that one David Oudemolen was the killer, I wonder if DEnnis Bowman might have been involved or perhaps the actual killer. Debra was killed in Bowman's home town and the manner of her murder is similar to that of Kathleen O'Brien Doyle (1980).
Debra Lynn Wilson, age 30
Murdered 23 December 1987
Debra was last seen by relatives around 8 p.m. on the evening of December 23, 1987 in Zeeland, Ottawa County, MI. Her husband, Rock, who was working second shift at Sintered Metal Products in Zeeland, called her and told her he was going to a Christmas party after work. When he arrived home he found all of the lights on in the house and an open sliding door that led to the back yard. He called his father, Hardee Wilson, to help search and eventually Rock found Debra’s body fully clothed next to a trailer about 120 feet from their house at about 5:30 a.m., December 24, 1987. There were no signs of forced entry, and police said they could not determine if she had been forced or carried to the location where her body was found. Neither robbery nor sexual assault appeared to be a motive.
Ottawa County Sheriff Gary Rosema indicated in a Dec. 2016 interview that the case had been solved, that Mrs. Wilson’s killer was David Oudemolen, and that Oudemolen died before he could be charged.
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Debra Lynn Wilson, age 30
Murdered 23 December 1987
Debra was last seen by relatives around 8 p.m. on the evening of December 23, 1987 in Zeeland, Ottawa County, MI. Her husband, Rock, who was working second shift at Sintered Metal Products in Zeeland, called her and told her he was going to a Christmas party after work. When he arrived home he found all of the lights on in the house and an open sliding door that led to the back yard. He called his father, Hardee Wilson, to help search and eventually Rock found Debra’s body fully clothed next to a trailer about 120 feet from their house at about 5:30 a.m., December 24, 1987. There were no signs of forced entry, and police said they could not determine if she had been forced or carried to the location where her body was found. Neither robbery nor sexual assault appeared to be a motive.
Ottawa County Sheriff Gary Rosema indicated in a Dec. 2016 interview that the case had been solved, that Mrs. Wilson’s killer was David Oudemolen, and that Oudemolen died before he could be charged.
LINK:
Debra Lynn Wilson–SOLVED
Debra was last seen by relatives around 8 p.m. on the evening of December 23, 1987 in Zeeland, Ottawa County, MI. Her husband, Rock, who was working second shift at Sintered Metal Products in Zee…
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