In 1992, the band Soul Asylum came out with their biggest hit, “Runaway Train.”
The easy going music matched up with lyrics that told the heartfelt stories of children needing to run away from trauma at home. A music video would come out with pictures of missing children. Some were found, some remain missing to this day. One in particular at 2:08 of the video shows a young black haired girl with a large smile but empty eyes. She is Aundria Michelle Bowman who has been missing from her home in Hamilton Michigan.since March 11, 1989. At the time she was last seen, she was 5’5; 115 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.
A facebook page alleges some disturbing details that point the finger at her adoptive father who has a criminal record that includes a crime of a cruel sexual nature. Days before she disappeared, she accused her father of sexually assaulting her. Her biological mother is desperate to find her but fears that she succumbed to foul play. To get more information visit here.
UPDATE 11-23-2019: On Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 police in Dennis Lee Bowman (Aundria’s adopted father) was arrested for the 1980 Virginia murder of 25 year old Kathleen Doyle in her Norfolk home. For more information about this arrest please visit here.
UPDATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2020, human remains have been located and are believed to be that of Andrua Bowman in a shallow grave that that had allegedly been covered by cement in the 3200 block of 136th Avenue in Monterey Township.
It was June 20, 1987, when Rhonda Lee Travers body was found about 12:40 p.m. in a wooded area next to the Leviton Manufacturing dump in Warwick by an individual walking across the site. Despite a intensive search no weapons were found at the scene. Newspaper articles state that Travers had been dragged by her feet from a car to where she was found. There did not appear to be a struggle at the scene. The 26 year old had been involved in prostitution. Some of her belongings were eventually found at a location in another part of town. Travers was from Providence and lived on Bridgeham Street. There have been several unsolved murders of woman that were engaged in prostitution in Rhode Island during the time of Traver’s death. Most of those cases have not been solved. If you have any information about this homicide please contact the Warwick Detective Division at 401-468-4261. All calls can be confidential. You can also email the Warwick Police at warwpd@warwickpd.org.
Francis Gallo Jr. lived with his wife and family in the blue collar town of Shelton, CT. On December 22, 1992, he went to check on a disturbance at his home and ended up being murdered by a possible burglar.
His first wife Paula Kalosky was found dead in 1999 from a gunshot wound to her head at the home she shared with her husband at 206 North Moodus Road in East Haddam. The Medical Examiner at the time declared the manner of death as a suicide. Her brother was never convinced that his sister would take her life. He filed a wrong death lawsuit against Robert and a different Medical Examiner would change Paula’s manner of death to Undetermined in 2004.
Despite rumors around town of her death being a murder, Robert Kalosky would marry again. His second wife 56 year old Sandra Kalosky would be found dead from blunt force trauma to her head and upper extremities on March 23rd of 2018 in the same house where Paula was found dead nearly two decades earlier. The Connecticut State Police have not named Robert as an official suspect.
It was September of 1992, when a man operating a bulldozer noticed what he thought was a mushroom in a Michigan State Department Natural Resources Dredging site along the Clinton River in the Macomb County Harrison Township of Michigan. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a human skull. No other human remains were found near the site. In April of 2004, the identity of the individual was revealed after a forensic reconstruction was done and dental records matched with that of a missing person. It was 19 year old Shawn Patrick Raymond of St. Clair County Clay township. He had been reported missing on July 3, 1983 after he was supposed to return from meeting with a bunch of friends while going to a bar in Detroit. The recent high school graduate worked at a restaurant in Algonac, Michigan and was looking to go Macomb Community College in a few months. Raymond was last seen at a bar named Menjo’s, which was a gay bar. No cause or manner of death was ever determined however, the case is being treated as a homicide investigation. It is not publicly known if Raymond was targeted because of his sexuality. In an online article on NBC News, Police have two suspects being looked at for Raymond’s death.
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