Remember the Renee Bowman case? It has to be one of the most despicable, heinous crimes ever in a region that’s suffered some horrible ones. It’s so heart-rending maybe you couldn’t deal with it.

Police raided Bowman’s home in 2008 when one of her three foster daughters, filthy and emaciated, was found wandering in a smock through a neighborhood in southern Maryland. Inside Bowman’s home, cops found the bodies of her two other foster daughters. She had beaten all three, starved them, tortured them and killed two. Then froze them. The third escaped.

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