If Judge William Baillargeon finds probable cause to believe Bowman committed a felony, the case would be bound over to a circuit court judge for trial in Allegan County Circuit Court. If convicted, prosecutors said, Bowman would serve the sentence in Virginia.
Additional witnesses were scheduled to testify in the hearing Monday afternoon, Feb. 22, 2021.
Deputies said Aundria disappeared from her home in Fillmore Township on March 11, 1989.
The disappearance
Brenda Bowman, Dennis Bowman's wife of nearly 50 years, testified that Dennis Bowman showed up at her work that night, March 11, 1989, and claimed Aundria had run away from their home.
"He said Aundria had run away and took money from the baby's dresser," she testified Monday.
Aundria Bowman was never found and leads into her disappearance ran cold until Dennis Bowman's arrest in September 2019. Brenda read out loud a letter during the hearing Monday that Dennis wrote to her in Feb 2020.
" I have confessed to the death of Aundria. I myself, and nobody else," Brenda Bowman testified, reading the letter.
Brenda Bowman also told the court that in follow-up conversations with her husband, he admitted to getting in an argument with Aundria on March 11, 1989, then striking her.
"He said he slapped her, and she lost her balance and fell down the stairs," Brenda Bowman testified.
According to her testimony, Dennis Bowman admitted that he put Aundria's body in a container and later buried her in their backyard.
"He said he put her in a box and put her out with the trash," Brenda Bowman testified.
Mich. man now in Va. prison told wife where to find remains of daughter missing since 1989
Brenda Bowman said she immediately informed police, telling an officer, "He didn’t lie to me this time."
Brenda Bowman said her husband revealed the burial site in a phone call in February 2020, before he was extradited to Norfolk, Virginia, to face a murder charge in the 1980 death of a woman there.
Aundria's dismembered remains were discovered under a concrete slab outside the couple's home in Monterey Township.
“He said, ‘I moved her from the other house.’ ... He told me she was out under the cement slab, left hand corner, front," Brenda Bowman testified
Bowman, 71, said he pushed the teen down stairs in 1989 after she threatened to report that he had molested her, Det. Sgt. Todd Workman of the state police testified.
“He said it was a terrible thing to cut up a human,” Workman said.
In Virginia, Dennis Bowman pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of Kathleen Doyle, who was the wife of a U.S. Navy pilot.
Wife: Husband told me where to find remains of west Michigan missing teen