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00:00A middle-aged biker vanishes, leaving his girlfriend to explain what happened.
00:10She said he's just running around with his biker friends doing his thing,
00:14but the story started to not make sense.
00:17Christmas before he disappeared, he was talking about putting his son in charge of his will.
00:24This didn't seem like a man that was getting ready to take off and didn't care about his kids.
00:30As police investigate this mysterious disappearance, the story begins to change.
00:36He usually tries to call me. I'm pretty cool, at least.
00:40But I was able to scroll back a couple of months, and there was no calls from outside the state.
00:48And when buried bodies begin to turn up,
00:52detectives realize they might have a repeat killer on their hands.
00:56There's a body in a well. There's a body in a flower bed.
01:02She was nicknamed Black Widow. Whatever she touched seemed to die.
01:07A wrecking in the sea.
01:09We went out to the rain.
01:11Right on into the grave.
01:13She got away with it for so long, she figured she could do it again.
01:18On October 18, 2008, Virginia police receive a phone call about a missing 54-year-old man.
01:43And my father's name was Cody Bowles.
01:47The reason me and my brother, Dave, made the phone call is because the year prior, I came up there for Thanksgiving.
01:55And when I showed up for Thanksgiving, my dad isn't around.
02:00Lee Bowles called up to the residence, wanted to come by and visit with his father.
02:05It was in November of 2007.
02:09And Ulyssa, Cody's girlfriend, told him that his father was not there.
02:17She said he's just running around with his biker friends doing his thing.
02:21It's not that far-fetched.
02:23That was a lifestyle that he was interested in.
02:26That was something he might want to do.
02:27But the story started to not make sense.
02:30Standing us up after knowing that I'm driving for 12 or 13 hours to make it to Thanksgiving dinner
02:37seemed a little more flaky than what he's capable of.
02:41During Christmas of 2006 was basically the last time the sons had seen their dad in person.
02:49After two years passed without hearing from Cody, his son became suspicious.
03:00Ulyssa said that he went out and met some people at the Sturgis bike rally.
03:06Basically stayed out there and moved over near Butte, Montana.
03:10And they were in a gang and they were living off the grid.
03:12Lee didn't want to invade his privacy, but just felt it was just, as time went on,
03:21that it just made less and less sense to him.
03:25And that's how we got involved in the investigation.
03:30Investigators' first stop is by Cody's house to speak with Ulyssa.
03:35I asked her if she heard from Cody.
03:37She said no.
03:38We asked her if she had any knowledge where he could be at now.
03:42And she said it's still out in Montana.
03:44She said that he hated the federal government.
03:47He hated law enforcement.
03:49Kind of painting him as a sovereign citizen and an outlaw biker.
03:56Detectives then knew they had to try and figure out why he would just disappear off the face of the earth
04:01and not have any contact with any of his loved ones.
04:05Maybe he really did just want to ride around on a motorcycle and live his life that way.
04:09But for two years, that's a very long time to go and not have any contact.
04:16He was the type of dad that would make a phone call on a birthday, that would make a phone call on Christmas.
04:23The more of those that passed, the more we had to accept the realization that there was probably something very wrong here.
04:29Reginald Cody Bowles was born December 1953 in North Chesterfield, Virginia.
04:42His father, Norman Bowles, died at a relatively young age.
04:47His mother, Catherine, he loved her to death.
04:49I mean, he was kind of a mama's boy.
04:52And his upbringing was, you know, kind of standard of the time in Virginia, a Christian upbringing.
05:01He did not graduate from high school.
05:04He was like, I'm going to go take a trade.
05:06So the trade that he took was becoming a printer.
05:10He worked for Bird Press, which was one of the local printing companies.
05:14Cody enjoyed machinery and working with his hands.
05:22One of his favorite pastimes was fixing and racing motorcycles.
05:28He liked to go fast.
05:30People who would see bikes that he made and they're just like, God, he had so much talent building these things.
05:36In his 20s, Cody seemed to settle down, marrying a young woman named Kathleen and starting a family.
05:44My parents met in around 1972 through a mutual friend.
05:51They were married for a couple of years and then my brother, you know, came about and me.
06:00But the lure of the open road was too strong for Cody to ignore forever.
06:05My dad was definitely into the motorcycle lifestyle and I believe that was a huge factor in separating them.
06:16My mom, she's a homebody.
06:18She's not the kind to want to go out and party and all that sort of thing.
06:23They ended up getting divorced.
06:26After the divorce, they were cordial with each other.
06:29They weren't best friends anymore, but they were nice.
06:32Even though Cody was divorced, he still had connection with his two sons and they were very important to him.
06:41He did a lot of things, you know, that dads do with their sons.
06:45He loved the mountains, you know.
06:47I'd go on motorcycle rides with him on the back of his bike.
06:50That was always fun.
06:51In his early 30s, Cody decided to give marriage another try.
07:00But once again, his work hard, play hard lifestyle caught up with him.
07:06It was right around 1985.
07:10He was roughly 35 years old and he had a major heart attack.
07:14It was, you know, swing shifts, taking, you know, whatever it took to keep yourself awake.
07:23And then taking something to put yourself to sleep had a lot to do with damage in his heart.
07:29He was in a coma for two months.
07:32He had to relearn everything again.
07:35That situation there definitely strengthened us because I thought I was going to lose him.
07:39With the help of a pacemaker and medication, Cody eventually recovered.
07:50But his marriage did not.
07:53After my dad got divorced, he moved back in with his mother, my grandmother.
08:00He got disability.
08:01He got some type of pension.
08:04And he continued with his hobbies, with his motorcycles and his go-karts.
08:09The last thing Cody expected was another chance at love.
08:17But one year later, that's exactly what he got.
08:211996 is when Cody came across Elisa Chambers.
08:25She worked at a convenience store at 7-Eleven in town.
08:29And that's where they struck up a conversation.
08:31Next thing you know, it turned into a relationship.
08:34Eventually, they ended up moving in together.
08:36Now, after 12 years with Ulyssa, it seems Cody's wanderlust might have gotten the better of him again.
08:59But according to Ulyssa, Cody's sudden departure two years ago was triggered by changes in his family's dynamics.
09:16She said that Cody's mom lived next door and that both of them were taking care of her.
09:23And then after she passed, Cody felt like, you know, he was relieved of a bunch of responsibilities and he just wanted to have some freedom.
09:32I asked how come he didn't reach out and talk to any of his kids.
09:37She said that he wasn't happy with them.
09:39Ulyssa told us he felt that his kids were always after him for money.
09:47And he felt he needed to get away.
09:49As far as her claim that we were trying to get money and stuff like that, that's not the relationship we ever had with my dad.
09:59He was getting the $1,400 a month from Social Security.
10:03That's not much money.
10:04So detectives are left trying to piece through what sounds like a complicated family dynamic and figure out just who's telling the truth.
10:16When we left, we were suspicious.
10:19Even though she was calm and she was polite, it didn't add up for us.
10:24We were thinking that she was hiding something.
10:26We didn't know what it was.
10:27Coming up, agencies collaborate in an attempt to locate Cody.
10:36We suspended the benefits until we got eyes and talked to Cody.
10:42And investigators turn up the heat on Ulyssa Chavers.
10:47I have to ensure that he's safe and sound and hasn't found his life.
10:57After learning of Cody Bowles' disappearance, what detectives are hearing from his girlfriend, Ulyssa Chavers, contradicts what his son, Lee, told them.
11:16Hoping to iron out some of the discrepancies, they talked to Cody Bowles' oldest son, David.
11:22He says the last time he saw his father was Christmas 2006.
11:32Christmas before he disappeared, when they had a family gathering, Cody was talking about naming his son, David, executor of his estate, in charge of his will.
11:42Because of the trauma that my father had during his heart attack, he was required to have a medical and financial power of attorney.
11:53Ulyssa Shavers ended up establishing power of attorney over everything my father had, over him medically, financially.
12:01David Bowles had indicated his dad didn't really feel comfortable for her keeping the power of attorney, and that he was strongly considering switching the power of attorney over to David.
12:17They also talked about the future as far as going on a fishing trip, and they were all looking forward to that.
12:23So this didn't seem like a man that was getting ready to take off, and didn't care about his kids, and that type of thing.
12:32It was really out of character for him to wait so long and not get a hold of any of us.
12:38So me and my brother decided to eventually call the police two years later.
12:43If something bad's going to happen to somebody, money is quite often the motive.
12:51So it makes you think, well, maybe she didn't want that to happen.
12:56Because Ulyssa was very dependent on Cody financially.
13:00While Cody's sons both agree their father enjoyed his freedom, they don't believe he'd risk his health by going off the grid for this long.
13:15We had expressed that our father had a major heart attack at one point in his life, and he was reliant on quite a few medications to keep everything balanced.
13:24We went to the local pharmacist.
13:27They advised that he didn't have any prescriptions refilled for a couple of years.
13:32Then we asked if his prescriptions were transferred to any other pharmacy or anything in the United States.
13:38They said no.
13:41This is a man who needs to take this medication to live.
13:46And no record anywhere in the country that Cody Bowles is picking up his heart meds.
13:51And that sends up major red flags for detectives.
14:00Armed with this information, detectives question Ulyssa again, this time with a strategy in mind.
14:08We felt like she was trying to deceive us.
14:11We decided that the best thing that we could do is go talk to her and lock her into a story.
14:20To let her tell us anything she wanted to tell us.
14:23And then use the information she gave us to see if what she was seeing was actually true.
14:27As they walk her through the story, the details begin to change.
14:38We started asking her if she had been in touch with Cody, and she says that he had been calling, but it's sporadic.
14:46She doesn't have a phone number to call back.
14:48She let us look at it.
15:06I was able to scroll back a couple of months, and there was no calls from outside the state.
15:11When investigators ask Ulyssa how Cody is supporting himself in the wilds of Montana, her answer only increases their suspicions.
15:28She said that his Social Security check was about $1,400 a month, and that he just withdraws it whenever he needs it.
15:35She said it was going into their joint account.
15:38Does he have an ATM card?
15:40Yeah, he's got an ATM card.
15:43If it's showing an ATM withdrawal, it should show what town and stuff that he's withdrawing out of.
15:51She was co-optive and went through the motions of trying to get it on the computer,
15:55but there was no indication that he was pulling money out of ATMs from out of state or was making purchases anywhere.
16:04You know, we're thinking that Ulyssa's lying to us.
16:08That it adds more evidence that foul play did occur.
16:12We asked her, how was Cody doing without his medications?
16:16It says, to our understanding, he couldn't live without them.
16:19And she explained that he had had a medical procedure that corrected that.
16:23He didn't need the medications anymore.
16:25He had heart trouble for a while, and then they put a defibrillator pacemaker in there
16:34until they got federal approval on the LASIK surgery.
16:41And they operated on him and cut out a third of the bottom third of his heart, the chamber at the bottom,
16:50that was causing the problems.
16:52The boy's made it seem like he had the heart attack, he's on medication, basically for the rest of his life.
17:05And Ulyssa's telling us, hey, he had surgery, had everything repaired, he's healthy.
17:10I mean, I think he's curious if he's safe and sound and hasn't time with his life.
17:18The only thing he never could do was have any responsibilities.
17:23That's my cell phone number.
17:25Next time you talk to him, just ask him to call me.
17:27I got a couple of questions for him.
17:29And we put the whole matter to rest, okay?
17:31The easiest part of Ulyssa's story to verify is her claim that Cody no longer needs his medication.
17:45I did call his cardiologist's office, spoke with a nurse, and I did ask her,
17:51I said, well, hypothetically, if a man came in and had that kind of condition, will surgery fix it?
17:56Or he could, you know, get rid of the pacemaker or the defibrillator, and she said no.
18:03He would always have those two and be on medication for the rest of his life.
18:08This woman, who's given you these consistently conflicting stories,
18:12is now saying he's the one person in the world that no longer needs a pacemaker and defibrillator
18:18because he had LASIK surgery.
18:20It's absolutely bonkers.
18:26As the investigation into Cody Bowles' disappearance continues,
18:42detectives have just confirmed his girlfriend, Ulyssa Chavers, lied about his medical history.
18:50They now have reason to obtain a warrant for her phone records.
18:54And she said that, you know, he's called her several times over a period of time,
19:00and we could not find where that happened on her phone.
19:04The couple's bank statements don't support Ulyssa's claims either.
19:11We couldn't find any activity on his bank account other than her drawing money out of it.
19:17Now the part about just going off the grid with a bunch of friends,
19:21we couldn't say yes or no, whether that was correct or not.
19:25We were searching all over the country for him,
19:28and it got to the point to where I said to Lieutenant Porter,
19:33call Social Security, cut off his Social Security, and he'll come to us.
19:38He might be upset, but he'll come to us.
19:40It was fall 2008, and our office received a call from a detective in Louisa County Sheriff's Department.
19:55He determined Reginald Bowles was missing and receiving Social Security benefits.
20:02So we were asked to assist with the investigation.
20:08Charlottesville SSA District Office actually reached out to Ulyssa
20:12as the representative payee to ask for his whereabouts.
20:17She did not cooperate with Social Security.
20:20So ultimately, Social Security suspended the benefits
20:23so she would no longer receive those benefits
20:27until we got eyes and talked to Cody.
20:35Social Security agents stop Cody's payments,
20:38but after two months, he still doesn't surface.
20:42To detectives, it seems evident that everything Ulysses told them is a lie.
20:48Every time they tried to corroborate something she said,
20:52it's just not adding up.
20:54Investigators pay Ulyssa another visit on February 24th, 2009.
21:03But despite their suspicions,
21:05Ulyssa assures them Cody is very much alive.
21:11To our surprise, she goes,
21:13Cody was here over Christmas.
21:15Did he say what he's been doing since between Thanksgiving and Christmas?
21:19Yeah, they go around and help with the cleanup from storms and stuff like that.
21:28We do bottom-tier work.
21:30Did you think to give me a call?
21:32No, I didn't.
21:33I've got a picture of him for Christmas, though.
21:36Do you?
21:37Yeah.
21:38That's it?
21:40Ulyssa tells detectives they celebrated Christmas next door at her daughter's home.
21:45Ulyssa showed us the pictures, and it was on a small digital camera, a little tiny screen,
21:52but it was very clear.
21:54And they had a date stamp on there of December 25th of 2008, and they're actually exchanging gifts.
22:02I said, can I have the SD card out of that?
22:04I'd like to have the pictures downloaded on my computer.
22:07And she goes, well, it's my daughter's camera.
22:10Her daughter lived next door.
22:12And her daughter said, sure.
22:13Pulled out the SD card and gave it to me.
22:15I asked her about being there at Christmastime, and she said she was out of town,
22:19which we thought was kind of strange, because, you know,
22:22why would Cody and Ulyssa come over to the trailer to celebrate Christmas when her daughter wasn't there?
22:27We drove back to the office, put the SD card in my computer, and brought it up.
22:37When detectives examine the photo more closely, they see it for what it is.
22:44Another of Ulyssa's lies.
22:47You could tell that that was an old picture, but it looked like it was a picture of a picture,
22:54and it wasn't a very good job.
22:58Cody's son, Lee, confirms the photo was taken many years ago.
23:03The moment that I seen that picture and realized that she was going through the trouble of furnishing a picture of a picture,
23:10I was like, all right, now she's creating evidence.
23:12She's covering something up.
23:14The hugest thing was the age, everything didn't line up.
23:18When you looked at the picture, it didn't look like their current age.
23:23He said, yeah, that's what Ulyssa, my dad looked like 10 years ago.
23:26And there was a VHS tape rewinder.
23:30It looked like a little orange car that she was holding up, and he was holding it.
23:34Carl goes, man, I remember that.
23:36That was in the living room, and it was covered in dust.
23:38At this point, we're not believing that Cody ran away from home.
23:46I'm just going to be blunt.
23:47It looks like Cody's dead.
23:48Coming up, a search of the property reveals the disturbing truth.
23:56The stench of death.
24:00I mean, that's the first thing that hits you in the face.
24:02And a chilling explanation unearths more tragedy.
24:07She says, it wasn't a good idea to leave a body behind in the backyard, so I decided to dig them up.
24:14Ulyssa Chaver's lies have started to stack up in the missing persons investigation for her boyfriend, Cody Bowles.
24:38The SD card represented the smoking gun.
24:44She had just handed us the piece of evidence that we had been looking for all alone.
24:50I think if we take this to a magistrate and show them all the other things that we had discovered in this case,
24:56that we should be able to get a search warrant for her property.
24:59And that's exactly what we did.
25:01On March 6th, 2009, five months after Cody was reported missing,
25:08investigators bring search teams to go over every inch of the property.
25:14There was going to be three teams of investigators to search this 11-acre property
25:20and the house and in another residence on the property.
25:25We also brought with us that day a cadaver dog.
25:28There was several outbuildings in the house and a trailer and everything,
25:34and the dogs started hitting on the well.
25:40When we popped the top off of this bored well that was in this field,
25:45the stench of death, I mean, that's the first thing that hits you in the face.
25:52I shone a light down in there, and you could see something near the bottom of the well.
25:57So I crawled down in the well.
25:59I took a ladder.
26:00We got like a sharp hook, and we sent it down there, and I was able to snag it.
26:06And eventually we brought a body up.
26:08And it was wrapped in a sleeping bag and a blanket.
26:17We were able to unzip the sleeping bag and look at it,
26:21and one of the very first things we saw was a pacemaker.
26:26As soon as I saw the pacemaker, I knew it was Cody.
26:28As Ulyssa watches the recovery efforts from inside the home,
26:37she decides to change her story yet again.
26:41My particular assignment was to sit with Ulyssa
26:47and talk to her while this search was going on.
26:50And I said, Ulyssa, look, they found him.
26:55He just died in the house, just passed away during the night.
27:20When she told us that he had died of natural causes
27:27and that he didn't want the authorities at his house,
27:31none of us believed that.
27:34I happened to be in town, and I got a phone call from Howard Porter.
27:40I knew it wasn't good, and then my heart sunk.
27:44What would you call it?
27:45The closure to everything that day.
27:47She was charged with disposal of a dead body.
27:52Believe it or not, you just can't go throw people in the well.
27:56We ended up having 10 counts of embezzlement.
28:00Every time the check, the Social Security check,
28:03goes into the bank account, that's a charge.
28:09On March 6, 2009, the remains are examined during an autopsy.
28:15They're able to determine that it is Cody based off of the pacemaker
28:22that he'd had installed because of his heart issues.
28:27They find a drug called benzotropine in his system
28:32in extremely high levels.
28:36And benzotropine is used for Parkinson's.
28:39But there was no indication, talking to Cody Bowles' family
28:43or in any of his medical records, that he had Parkinson's.
28:48So why was this drug in his system?
28:53I started researching and talking to experts and toxicologists,
28:58and they said a person with a defibrillator and a pacemaker
29:02should not be taking benzotropine.
29:05It actually slows your heart down.
29:08But without proof she drugged Cody,
29:14prosecutors are unable to charge her with murder.
29:19We needed some cause of death,
29:22and the embe just wasn't able to determine the cause of death
29:25due to the condition of the body.
29:28At that point, I was kind of freaking out
29:30that she's going to get away with murder
29:33and she's just going to be out in about three or four years.
29:50Looking for any evidence to build their case
29:53against Ulyssa Chavers,
29:55detectives pay a visit next door
29:57to speak with her daughter, Teresa.
30:00We asked about Ulyssa's past,
30:02if she was ever married before,
30:05and Teresa said, yeah, she was married once before.
30:10According to Teresa,
30:12her biological father, Clint Chavers,
30:15also died under mysterious circumstances in 1994.
30:22Clint was from the greatest generation.
30:24He had served in World War II,
30:26and just after leaving the military,
30:29he became an owner of a bar,
30:30and then he became a truck driver.
30:32He was significantly older than Ulyssa Shavers.
30:37They met in the 70s
30:40when Clint was already around 50 years old
30:44and Ulyssa was in her 20s.
30:47They got married.
30:49They had one daughter.
30:52And him being so much older than Ulyssa,
30:55he started to have a number of health issues.
30:59There had been some sort of accident
31:01that led to the amputation of one of his legs,
31:04which left him in a wheelchair.
31:10Teresa tells detectives she wasn't there when Clint died,
31:14and her mother wouldn't tell her what happened.
31:17Her mom called her while she was in school
31:21and told her not to come home,
31:23stay at some friend's house.
31:24Ulyssa told Teresa that her father had passed away.
31:31The VA sent the rescue squad out,
31:33picked up the body to have it cremated.
31:35After the weekend passed, she came home.
31:38She said the house was really clean
31:41and a strong odor of bleach was in the house.
31:46And as far as she knows,
31:48that's what happened to her dad,
31:50who had, she said, had been sick for a long time.
31:54She was a teenage girl in high school,
31:57and that seemed plausible.
32:02Teresa says there was no funeral
32:04and she never saw her father's body.
32:08Investigators wonder if Ulyssa
32:11was trying to cover something up.
32:14We contacted the VA,
32:16and they found out very quickly
32:19that VA doesn't pick up bodies
32:21and that they don't know what on earth she's talking about.
32:27A call to the Social Security office
32:30reveals they were never notified of Clint's death.
32:35So we determined that Ulyssa
32:38held a joint account with Clint Chaffers,
32:41and she was receiving his Social Security benefits
32:45from 1994 until 2009.
32:51in that joint account.
32:54There's no explanation
32:56for what happened to Clint Chaffers.
33:01No record that he had died.
33:04So now investigators, of course, are going,
33:08well, what happened to his body?
33:11We went back out to the regional jail
33:14to re-interview Ulyssa Chaffers
33:17about Clint Chaffers.
33:19She just said he died naturally.
33:22I couldn't believe it.
33:23The similarities to Cody Bowles' death
33:26don't stop there.
33:29She admitted to the deputies
33:32that Clint's body was in the backyard
33:35of her old rental property
33:38in Amelia, Virginia.
33:39I wrapped him in the suit
33:43that he was in the wheelchair
33:44and I threw him out to the ramp
33:46and the way the ramp went right down
33:50on the side where I had dug just the grave.
33:55There was a, you know,
33:56just a piece, you know,
33:57into the grave
33:59to cover the dust.
34:00Ulyssa says Clint is buried behind the house
34:07they were renting in Amelia County
34:09about 60 miles away.
34:12Detectives realize the evidence they need
34:15might be buried with him.
34:17We found that property,
34:21requested consent to search
34:23and Amelia County Sheriff's Office,
34:26Louisa County Sheriff's Department
34:28and Social Security OIG agents.
34:31We went out to the property.
34:33Like before,
34:34we brought the cadaver dog in
34:36and they had a forensic anthropologist
34:39on scene to supervise.
34:41We're shifting through all the dirt
34:43and during it,
34:45we found some small pieces
34:48which I thought were actually rocks.
34:50Because that professor happened to be there,
34:52he says,
34:53that's not a rock.
34:55That's part of a skull.
35:00While most of the body is recovered,
35:03the rest of the skull is missing,
35:05which makes an identification difficult.
35:11She says,
35:12and I was moving
35:13and I thought it wasn't a good idea
35:15to leave a body behind in the backyard.
35:18So I decided to dig Clint up
35:20and I was going to move the body.
35:26When I went to
35:27start taking the body out of the ground,
35:32the neck broke
35:33and I ended up with a head in my hand.
35:36And then somebody pulled up in the driveway
35:39and I had the head in a bag,
35:43a listed bag
35:44and took it onto the landfill
35:48and got rid of it.
35:49One of the most bizarre things
35:55about this entire story
35:57is just how cold
36:00and unemotional
36:02Ulyssa Shavers is
36:04throughout all this.
36:05She's just matter of fact.
36:07Like she's
36:09recounting her grocery list.
36:11As with Cody Bowles,
36:15detectives still need to prove
36:17that Ulyssa
36:17not only disposed
36:19of Clint's body,
36:20but that she was responsible
36:23for his death.
36:24The remains are taken
36:27to the medical examiner's office.
36:29Again,
36:30undetermined cause of death
36:33because there's no obvious sign of trauma
36:36and the head is missing.
36:38So we're not thinking
36:39we're going to be able to solve
36:41the Clint Shavers
36:43homicide.
36:45This is probably a criminal matter,
36:48but not enough to go on at this point.
36:50So you just have to go back
36:51and keep digging.
36:54Following Ulyssa
37:08Shavers' arrest,
37:09Virginia residents
37:10are shocked to learn
37:12there might have been
37:13a repeat killer
37:14hiding in their midst.
37:17At this point,
37:18we now know
37:19Ulyssa Shavers
37:20is tied
37:21to two bodies.
37:24There's a body in a well.
37:26There's a body in a flower bed.
37:29But investigators
37:31are faced with
37:32being able to prove
37:33premeditation
37:35that it wasn't an accident.
37:36She was nicknamed
37:39Black Widow.
37:40Whatever she touched
37:41seemed to die.
37:45Ms. Shavers
37:46maintained
37:47that she was innocent
37:49of killing anyone.
37:51She admitted
37:52that she took the money
37:53and that she disposed
37:55of the bodies,
37:56but she completely
37:58disavowed
37:59any killing.
38:00With the state
38:05medical examiner
38:06unable to refute
38:08Ulyssa's claims,
38:10investigators decide
38:11to involve
38:12new forensic experts.
38:14In the case of
38:16Clint Shavers,
38:16the most important
38:17piece of evidence
38:18was those three little bones
38:19that they recovered
38:20when they were
38:21exhuming his body.
38:23Dr. Onsley
38:24from the
38:25Smithsonian Institute
38:26was able to determine
38:27that cause of death
38:28for Clint Shavers
38:30in Amelia County
38:31was actually
38:32either a significant
38:34blow to the head
38:35or a gunshot wound
38:37based upon the fragments
38:38of the skull
38:39that we were able
38:39to give him.
38:42That in itself
38:44led us to
38:45a murder charge
38:46in Amelia County.
38:51In the case
38:52of Ulyssa's boyfriend,
38:53Cody Bowles,
38:55the autopsy showed
38:56he had elevated levels
38:58of a Parkinson's drug
38:59in his system.
39:01A test run
39:02by a new lab
39:03confirms
39:04that's most likely
39:05what killed him.
39:08He had four times
39:10the lethal limit
39:12of benztropine
39:14for a drug
39:15he should not even
39:16be taken.
39:17To me,
39:18that's what happened.
39:20She poisoned him.
39:22He did not take
39:24this medication.
39:25We never really did
39:27find out
39:27where the medication
39:28came from.
39:32After the search warrant,
39:33we were able
39:34to seize her computer
39:35and found that
39:36she had been
39:36doing research
39:37on that Parkinson's
39:38disease drug
39:39and the effects
39:41it had on somebody
39:42with a heart condition.
39:44When you add in
39:45all these factors,
39:47it's enough
39:48that we're going
39:49to take a chance.
39:49So we indicted her
39:51for first-degree murder
39:53even though
39:53the autopsy
39:54said undetermined
39:56cause of death.
40:01Facing new evidence,
40:03Ulyssa and her attorney
40:04decide not to risk
40:06taking the two murder cases
40:08to trial
40:08and reach a plea agreement
40:10instead.
40:11She entered
40:14an Alford plea
40:14which means
40:16she's not going
40:17to plead guilty
40:18but she recognizes
40:19there's enough evidence
40:21to prove her guilty.
40:23The judge rules
40:25that Ulyssa
40:25will serve time
40:26for both victims
40:27concurrently
40:28for a total
40:29of 43 years
40:31in prison.
40:32A confession
40:38was not a requirement
40:40of Ulyssa's plea deal
40:41but investigators
40:43have their theories
40:44about why
40:45she committed
40:46the murders.
40:48In the case
40:49of Clint Shavers,
40:50Ulyssa Shavers
40:51snapped
40:52because
40:52they had a lot
40:54of domestic issues
40:55as he was
40:56getting older
40:57so apparently
40:58Ulyssa got tired
40:59of that
41:00did away with him.
41:02and then
41:07she decided
41:07to keep on
41:08collecting
41:08his social security
41:09for 15 more years
41:11after he died.
41:13I think that
41:14Ulyssa
41:15in her mind
41:16since she got away
41:19with it
41:19for so long
41:20she figured
41:21she could do it again.
41:23I think her motive
41:23to kill Cody
41:24was financial.
41:26He was talking
41:27about making
41:28his sons
41:29the beneficiary
41:30in the executive
41:31estate
41:31that's going
41:32to cut her
41:32off financially.
41:34It's unfortunate
41:35how he had to die.
41:37He had no idea
41:38that the enemy
41:39that was going
41:40to kill him
41:40was within
41:41his own house.
41:47Ulyssa Shavers
41:48left so many victims
41:50from her own family
41:52her own daughter
41:53to Cody Bowles' kids
41:56to Cody Bowles' kids
41:56to the scars
41:58of just knowing
41:59how their loved ones
42:02died
42:02that they
42:04were murdered.
42:06So in some ways
42:08how do you get justice
42:09for a case like this?
42:13My father
42:14used to say that to me
42:16that you're not going
42:16to be here forever.
42:18He did live
42:18in the time
42:19that he was here.
42:20I remember him
42:23to be a happy
42:24happy guy
42:24that enjoyed life.