A man serving two life sentences in Virginia for raping and killing a woman was on Monday sentenced to an additional 35 to 50 years in jail in Michigan for the 1989 killing of his teenage daughter.

The accused, identified as Dennis Bowman, is currently serving life sentences for the 1980 rape and murder of Kathleen Doyle in Norfolk, Virginia. Doyle was the 25-year-old wife of a US Navy pilot when she was murdered. Forensic evidence led to the accused’s arrest in November 2019 arrest in that case.

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Following the arrest, Bowman confessed to killing 14-year-old Aundria whom he and his wife had adopted. The teen was last seen in March 1989. After his confession, her corpse was found in February 2020 under a concrete slab in the backyard of Bowman’s Hamilton home.

The accused told the cops that he pushed the girl down stairs after she threatened to report that he had molested her. She died on the spot. He then called police that day to report that the girl had stolen $100 from him and his wife, and had run away from home.

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While confessing, the accused told the authorities that he used an axe to cut off the girl’s legs so that her body would fit in a barrel. He then buried the barrel at the family’s Holland-area home at the time and then reburied it at their new home in Hamilton after they relocated.

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The accused pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in December for the killing of Aundria Bowman. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for the purpose of sentencing.

“His numerous assaults, his behavior in this case, other convictions all indicate Mr. Bowman is a serious, dangerous man that has harmed many communities, many families,” Allegan County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Zuzich Bakker said during Monday’s sentencing, which Bowman attended in-person. “It’s impossible to even articulate the words to describe what he has done. Reading what he has done is sickening.”

With inputs from the Associated Press