Dorothy Mae Bowman

First Name: Dorothy
Middle Name(s): Mae
Last Name: Bowman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say thatDorothy Mae Bowman received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by knife

COD Short Description: 
stabbed with a knife by husband when having sex with another man
Original Record: 
4509

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