CASE OF MISSING MOTHER, DAUGHTER IS STILL COLD By PHILLIP BANTZ Sentinel Staff Published: Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The world is a different place today than it was when a West Chesterfield mother and daughter disappeared eight years ago.
New wars, presidents and technologies mark the passing of time. Each tick of the clock slowly covers the remaining tracks of Tina and Bethany Sinclair like footprints disappearing in the snow.
No bodies. No activity on bank accounts. The house they lived in off Mountain Road has been demolished.
The only remaining traces of the Sinclairs are haunting photographs, forgotten belongings, a slew of questions and a lingering sadness among those they left behind.
Family members of Tina Sinclair, who was 34 when she disappeared, and Bethany Sinclair, who was 15, remain vigilant in their quest for answers and some sort of closure to a painful mystery that has dragged on far too long.
Tina Sinclair worked at the Keene Beauty Academy and as a visiting nurse for a quadriplegic man. She picked up her daughter, a Keene High School student, from a local movie theater and drove her home the night of Feb. 3, 2001. They were never seen again.
“I still look at their pictures and talk to them. I’m not crazy, but you do that. I miss them terribly and I still wish they would come home,” said Tina Sinclair’s mother, Mary E. Lewis.
“Just the idea of them being gone for eight years ... I get discouraged sometimes, but then I think, ‘Maybe we’ll find them.’ You just have to keep going.”
Searchers with the police, private organizations and the Sinclair family have combed forests and explored the Connecticut River with divers and sonar equipment, but remain empty-handed.
One private search party brought in cadaver-sniffing dogs in the fall of 2007. They trekked over hundreds of square miles in Chesterfield for seven days, eventually locating a spot where their dogs detected the scent of human remains.
“We ended up getting an excavator and going out and digging in the woods off Route 9 in the Old Chesterfield Road area,” N.H. State Police Sgt. Russell B. Lamson said. “We must have cut four or five cords of wood just to get the excavator back there. We were there all day, but we didn’t discover any evidence.”
Police investigators have entered the Sinclairs’ dental records and other identifying information into a national database that is used to match unidentified remains with missing persons, Lamson said.
“A few unidentified remains have popped up on the radar. Any time a police agency finds something they call us because they know we’re looking. It happened a couple times last year. Nothing matched,” he said.
“We’re also still getting tips and we always follow up on those. It’s just with each year the number of tips we get decreases.”
The desperate Sinclair family consulted a California psychic a few years ago who claimed to have seen a pair of bodies in a cave on the side of a mountain in Chesterfield. The vision never panned out.
They also hired award-winning private investigator Gil Alba, who worked for 27 years as a New York City police detective.
“We’re still active on the case,” Alba said. “Every time we get a lead we follow it up. I went to Chesterfield in April and did some more interviews. We’re also looking for evidence: body parts, clothing, maybe a murder weapon. Anything we can find.”
Alba is also looking at Eugene V. Bowman Jr. Bowman was dating and living with Tina Sinclair before she went missing. Police have called him a person of interest in the case.
“The problem with a case like this is joining the evidence together with the person of interest,” Alba said. “You have to keep working on them and that’s what we’re doing.”
Bowman is still living in New Hampshire, according to Alba. He said he has not spoken with Bowman. Attempts to reach Bowman for comment were unsuccessful.
Police searched Bowman’s residence a few months after the Sinclairs disappeared, but what they seized and what they were looking for may never be made public because the state Attorney General’s Office refuses to release the warrants.
The Keene Sentinel won an argument in the city’s District Court to view warrants that detailed the search, but the state’s Supreme Court reversed the decision. The Court ruled that the warrants should stay sealed while police are working the case.
Tina Sinclair’s sister, Sharon Garry, stated in an e-mail that she and her family remain disturbed by the disappearances and are frustrated by the lack of information.
“The anger, hatred, confusion and nightmares have shredded through me and made me into a person I don’t even recognize anymore,” Garry wrote. “The holidays, birthdays and family gatherings were like a bad dream because Tina and Bethany weren’t there.”
A memorial for the Sinclairs will be replaced at a bend in the Connecticut River off Route 9 in West Chesterfield to mark the grim anniversary, Garry said.
The first two memorials, a cross and a photograph of the Sinclairs mounted on a plaque, were stolen.
Garry urged others to visit the memorial and light a candle in memory of her sister and niece.
Friday, December 5 New Sinclair memorial is now missing Editorial of the Reformer:
During the holiday seasons, we all have our rituals of decorating, shopping, celebrating with family, etc. It's usually fun and exciting for most of us, and promotes a feeling of loving and giving, peace, harmony and genuine compassion and kindness toward one another.
For the last seven holiday seasons, my family has added new rituals and re-adjusted the old ones in an effort to maintain the happiness we had shared in previous years. In 2001, we lost two very significant and very loved people: My sister and her daughter.
Tina and Bethany Sinclair vanished from the home they lived in on Mountain Road in West Chesterfield, N.H., Feb. 4, 2001.
For those who aren't familiar with the story, you can read excerpts from articles, case facts, see photos and hear people's thoughts on a public forum at www.missingtinaandbeth.org.
During the course of the year, every year since Tina and Bethany went missing, friends, family and community members go to the place on the Mountain Road where a memorial was erected to leave a small token to let them know that we wish they were here with us, and how very missed they really are. The holiday season is no exception to this. In fact, it is a tradition now.
This year my mother was taken to the memorial to leave decorations, prayers and let Tina and Beth know that she misses them. Usually I bring her, and we do this together, often with other friends and family members. But earlier this week she went with friends and, as she approached the area where Tina and Bethany once lived, and most likely died, she found that the memorial was gone. It is no longer there, unscrewed and unbolted from the post where it was so proudly and beautifully displayed.
Imagine how much her heart sank. How she struggled to hold back tears. How could this have happened?
Now, this is not the first time that something very similar has occurred. Last fall the original memorial, a simple wooden cross with morning glory vines that were planted and grew up around it, surrounded by a little wreath of stones that the kids (Bethany's friends and cousins) built, and was covered in several years worth of gifts, cards, angel ornaments and statues, flowers, wreaths and ribbons, was removed as well. In response, hurt and angry as we were, we had a new one erected, in a new spot where the current property owner, was kind enough to offer to us and even to help us to install.
How could someone do this? Why would someone do this?
Anyone who may have information, please contact the Chesterfield Police Department (603-363-4233) or the N.H. State Police Troop C, in Keene, N.H.
In the meantime, we will try to figure out how to have another one made, probably not till after the holidays, or until finances will allow, and we will start all over again.
This is so hard, so awful. Please give us back our memorial.
Sister thinks septic system may hold clues By NICOLE ORNE, Reformer Staff
(Excerpt)
Wednesday, April 2 CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- A recent search of the former home of Tina and Bethany Sinclair may have provided some new clues into their disappearance seven years ago, according to a relative of the women.
Police investigating the disappearance of the mother and daughter refused to comment, but Tina's sister, Sharon Garry, believes there may have been some leads.
"I know that they found some things, I just don't know exactly what they found," she said. "They took some things out, so to speak, but I don't know what."
...but the New Hampshire Attorney General's office said it considers Tina's boyfriend at the time, Eugene Van Bowman Jr., "a person of interest" in the case, and the homicide unit is handling all public comments.
Assistant Attorney General Jane Young refused to give further comment...
New Hampshire State Trooper Joe DiRusso also refused to comment beyond the press release...
Garry said police were down at the home searching again Monday. The press release only reports a search for Thursday and Friday of last week.
The hardest part for her was being at the site when workers uncovered an underground space built out of cinder blocks...
"They were tearing up the foundation and pushed the lid off a concrete box underground. As soon as they did, there was a foul odor. There was water in it, it looked relatively new," Garry said. "What possible purpose could this have?"
...Tyler Excavating owner Karey Tyler said it was in fact a part of the leach field. "It's a part for the waste water to go into and naturally leach out of."
He said this would account for the odor.
Garry hoped the police would have a chance to search this box, but said it was removed before they arrived again.
Tyler said the box was empty and the police already had the opportunity to search near the box.
"They had the dogs pretty close to it... They ran the dogs around it. The box was empty."
..............Eugene Van Bowman, Jr.'s residence/shared by Tina and Bethany/ has been demolished.
A new foundation has been put in, we are told, for the new owner to build a new house.
The house, demolished, was piled up and hauled away...a new house is being built by the new owner.
Journey's End......Tina and Bethany's Journey through life ended at this residence................
Published: Saturday, August 23, 2008 Rally slated to call attention to missing persons
Rally in Brattleboro slated to call attention to missing persons, plus other briefs from the region.
BRATTLEBORO — A rally scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Vermont is intended to bring attention to missing-persons cases, including one involving a mother and daughter who disappeared from their West Chesterfield home in February 2001.
Tina Sinclair, then 34, and her then-15-year-old daughter Bethany vanished from the now-demolished Mountain Road home of Tina Sinclair’s boyfriend Eugene Van Bowman Jr.
Previously, Cheshire County Attorney Peter W. Heed has said he had “a very good reason to believe (the Sinclairs) are dead, and we have good reason to believe we know who did it, but we can’t prove it.”
The Sinclairs’ family has continued to comb the area for clues over the years, hiring private search parties and cadaver-sniffing dogs as recently as October 2007. All searches, including dives into the Connecticut River, have come up empty.
The North Carolina-based CUE Center for missing persons is slated to hand out DVDs and information about 110 missing persons and six unsolved homicides, including some Vermont cases.
The rally begins at 1 p.m at the Colonels Cabin on Route 5 in North Brattleboro. Family time is scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m., including clowns, balloons, magic and country music. The CUE Center will have announcements and speakers at 3 p.m. More music will come at 4 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO -- It has been more than seven years since Tina and Bethany Sinclair were reported missing from their home in Chesterfield, N.H.
And while their family has not given up hope that someday their disappearances will be explained, that hope might someday be answered if the story remains alive.
On Sunday, at 3 p.m. at The Colonel's Cabin in Dummerston, a national group will visit the area to show support for the Sinclairs and for every family that is still searching for a missing person.
This is the fifth consecutive year that the Cue Center for Missing Persons has taken a national road trip to spread awareness about missing person cases. The group is stopping in Dummerston Sunday to remind the public about the Sinclair's story and also to distribute information about 108 other missing persons and six unsolved homicide cases from across the country.
The Cue Center for Missing Persons was founded in 1994 by North Carolina resident Monica Caison, who was exposed to three different missing person cases before deciding to start the national group to support families and help police continue to keep the cases active...
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- The second day of a two-day search at the former home of Tina and Bethany Sinclair did not turn up anything new as New Hampshire State Police looked one last time for clues to the disappearance of the two women who were last seen alive in 2001.
The new owner of the Mountain Road house, Michael LaCroix, was demolishing it, which gave police an opportunity to check any spots that they may not have before. They stressed that no new leads brought them to the house.
... The New Hampshire Attorney General's office has said it considers Bowman "a person of interest" in the case.
Cadaver-sniffing dogs scanned the property but were not able to produce anything.
"If there were any results, I would have gotten a phone call," Strelzin said, refusing to talk more about the investigation.
Bulldozers and construction crews in hard hats worked to tear down the building, giving the owner a fresh start that is denied to the family of the women, who still hold out hope that the case will be solved. A memorial displaying a picture of the mother and daughter greeted cars just before the house.
...Still, Tina's sister, Sharon Garry, had not lost hope. "We are daily working very hard on this case. We're coming up with leads on a regular basis. Some stuff over the years has been process of elimination. It's been seven years and that's a long time, but we know a lot and we've found a lot in the seven years. I believe this case will be solved."
"This is weighing on their minds as much as it is the people in the community," Garry said. "I don't believe it's a cold case and I don't believe the police would tell you it's a cold case, either."
Police probe site final time By NICOLE ORNE, Reformer Staff
(excerpt) Friday, March 28 WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- The house on Mountain Road where Tina and Bethany Sinclair were last seen alive in 2001 was torn down. Before its demolition, state and local police took one more look for possible evidence into their disappearance.
...It is being demolished by Tyler Excavation of Vernon.
...The New Hampshire State Police brought in cadaver-sniffing dogs to check for anything that might have been missed in past searches. -------
...Detective Joe DiRusso added that they were there to take advantage of a "final opportunity to check while it's still intact. There's no new information."
...The New Hampshire Attorney General's office has said it considers Bowman "a person of interest" in the case.
Since then, a private investigator has been involved in the case and a Web site, www.missingtinaandbeth.org, has been set up.
Home razed; clues sought (excerpt) Sarah Palermo Sentinel Staff
WEST CHESTERFIELD — Over the past seven years, the house on Mountain Road had welcomed more than its fair share of visitors: police investigators and dog teams, bereaved family members and volunteer search parties.
But on Thursday morning, 182 Mountain Road, the last known home of Tina M. Sinclair and her daughter Bethany, was torn down.
On Thursday, state and local police once again searched the site for clues in the Sinclairs’ disappearance.
...the Attorney General’s Office, would not comment, even to say if the search was within the house or on the grounds, or before the demolition or afterward.
...Previously, Heed has said he had “a very good reason to believe (the Sinclairs) are dead, and we have good reason to believe we know who did it, but we can’t prove it.”
An unidentified woman called Keene High School, where Bethany was a student, to say Bethany was sick and wouldn’t be coming to school.
The Sinclairs’ family has continued to comb the area for clues over the years, hiring private search parties and cadaver-sniffing dogs as recently as October 2007. All searches, including dives into the Connecticut River, where dogs have picked up human scent, according to Sinclair’s sister Sharon Garry, have come up empty.
Mary E. Lewis, Tina Sinclair’s mother, said she was surprised but relieved when she heard of the demolition from another family member.
“I’m glad they got it down ... It always bothered me whenever I went over that way. It upset me to know that Tina and Bethany were gone from there,” said Lewis, who lives in Brattleboro.
The site’s new owner, Michael N. LaCroix, plans to build a new house on the site, according to a man who identified himself as the manager of Tyler Excavation company.
...As a result of the sexual assault charge, Bowman is listed in the state sexual offender registry, with a current address on Pond Brook Road in Chesterfield.
House where missing woman, daughter vanished is torn down
Associated Press - March 28, 2008 1:25 PM ET
(excerpt)
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H. (AP) - Police aren't saying much about another search this week for a New Hampshire woman and her daughter who vanished seven years ago.
Thursday, the house in West Chesterfield that was the last known home to Tina Sinclair and her daughter, Bethany, was torn down. Also on Thursday, police once again searched the site for clues in the Sinclairs' disappearance.
The attorney general's office would not comment on whether the search involved the house, or the land on which it stood, or whether it happened before the demolition or afterward.
New Clues in Missing Mother/Daughter Case? (excerpt) Chesterfield, New Hampshire - March 28, 2008
New Hampshire State Police plan to release new information Friday, in the suspicious disappearance seven years ago of a mother and daughter.... ...Authorities returned to the home on Mountain Road Thursday, and will go back Friday. The home is being torn down.
Police Conduct New Search Of Sinclair Property Mother, Daughter Missing For More Than 7 Years
POSTED: 2:54 pm EDT March 27, 2008
(excerpt) WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- State police conducted a search Thursday at the home of a mother and daughter who have been missing for seven years.
The attorney general's office confirmed that police searched the West Chesterfield property of Tina and Bethany Sinclair but said there was no new information that triggered the search. Officials said the investigation into their disappearance is ongoing.................
.....Investigators have conducted several organized searches of the Bowman house and the adjacent Connecticut River but have found no evidence of the Sinclairs. They have followed leads as far away as Florida.
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H. - State and local police searched the site of a house here Thursday that was once the residence of Tina and Bethany Sinclair, who both disappeared in 2001.
The home on Mountain Road was being demolished by Tyler Excavation of Vernon on Thursday morning. It had been the residence of the Sinclairs...
...In May 2001, Bowman was sentenced to two to 15 years for sexual assault charges in an unrelated case. He was released on parole in October 2003. He returned to jail in October 2006 for a parole violation stemming from a DUI conviction. He was released in October 2007.
...State police from Troop C in Keene at the site had no comment on the search Thursday morning, but said they would return to the site on Friday. They are expected to issue a news release on Friday.
Seven years have passed, this February 3rd, 2008 since Bethany Sinclair hung up the phone with her sweetheart and was never heard from again.
Bethany and her mother, Tina Sinclair disappeared after that phonecall leaving their car, cellphone, and beloved cat behind.
The family remembers this day with sadness and hope that they will find Tina and Bethany's remains so that they can put them to rest properly, and put to rest the fear that a monster lies in wait in the quiet community of West Chesterfield, NH.
Tina and Bethany lived with a now convicted sex offender, Eugene Van Bowman, Jr. who was named a Person of Interest in the case. He resides back in West Chesterfield, NH.
The family plans more searches in the Spring of 2008 and are working from tips from their website Missingtinaandbeth.org and Gil Alba and Associates from New York.
Anyone wishing to help with the searches or Reward fund can contact Tina's sister/Bethany's aunt - Sharon Garry atWebmaster@missingtinaandbeth.org
Search goes on Sinclair family still seeks missing mother, daughter Freeman Klopott Sentinel Staff
excerpt
WEST CHESTERFIELD - Relatives of a mother and daughter who disappeared from their West Chesterfield home in February 2001 gathered beneath a tarp Saturday..
They were there to talk about the privately hired search parties who are spending the weekend trolling the woods of Pisgah State Park and the waters of the Connecticut River looking for signs of Tina Sinclair, 34, and her daughter Bethany Sinclair, 15.
The Sinclairs disappeared from the Mountain Road home of Tina Sinclair's then-boyfriend Eugene Van Bowman Jr., where the two women were living. They have neither been seen nor heard from since and are presumed dead.
State police continue to investigate, but they have long since called off their search, having come up empty-handed.
The family, however, has not given up. They've hired cadaver-sniffing dogs and dive teams who will keep looking until bodies are found.
Family members say they hope discovering the bodies will provide the evidence that will put the man they think killed the women behind bars.
The Sinclairs' family members have always said they believe Van Bowman had something to do with the women's disappearance, though he has never been charged in connection with the case.
For Tina Sinclair's sister, Sharon Garry, finding the bodies would also turn her life right-side up again.
"I want some closure. We all want some closure," Garry said Saturday. "My life has been consumed by this case."
Garry said she is hopeful this weekend's search will be more productive than several others the family has sponsored. Each search, she said, cuts down the number of places they have to look. And, combined with new leads, the places they're looking this time should reveal some facts, she added.
The man Garry says is behind those leads is private investigator Gil Alba, hired by the family last year after previous investigators turned up few results....
...So he's sent six searchers with cadaver-sniffing dogs into Pisgah State Park, New Hampshire's largest state park, at 13,500 acres.
...he has them looking along roads and near ponds in the park. Divers are searching the bottom of the Connecticut River, he said.
"Our biggest fear is that the person of interest may hurt somebody else before we can do anything about it," she said.
"I would like to have other things to do, but I won't stop looking for them."
Donations to help the search can be made at Chittenden Bank on Canal Street in Brattleboro.
N.Y. private eye leads search for missing Sinclair women By PAUL H. HEINTZ, Reformer Staff Brattleboro Reformer excerpt
Monday, October 29
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- New York private investigator Gil Alba took to the woods near Pisgah State Park this weekend with a small band of volunteers to search for a long lost local family.
Tina and Bethany Sinclair have been missing since February 2001, when the mother and daughter disappeared without a trace from their Mountain Road home. Though numerous searches have taken place in the past, Alba said new information prompted him to mount yet another recovery attempt.
The search concentrated on a northeastern section of Pisgah off Beal's Road, which is near a property formerly owned by Eugene Van Bowman Jr. Bowman lived with the Sinclairs and was named a "person of interest" by the New Hampshire Attorney General's office....
...Alba said he was unfamiliar with the details of prior searches and was not working with New Hampshire authorities, but felt confident that by generating publicity he could unearth more clues.
"Get some pictures with me in them and I'll put them on my Web site," he instructed one member of the search party. "I have a Web site..."
Alba's group covered just a couple miles of trails in the massive, 13,500 acre state park, but volunteer Bob Betournas of Enfield, Conn., said he felt the search was well worth it.
...Tim Alexander, a friend of the family from Vernon who lent the group some local expertise, agreed.
..."I think something's gonna happen. We've got a lot of people involved," said Alexander, who bought a new metal detector to help with the search. "A lot more people are coming forward who had things happen to them."
...The group struck upon some luck when they encountered local landowner Wayne Dingman, who was riding along the trail on his all-terrain vehicle. He explained to the New York private eye some key elements of the local geography, like floating bogs, cellar holes and wells.
...The two-day search, which also included a dive team of three searching the bottom of the Connecticut River between the Chesterfield and Hinsdale bridges, ended without any momentous discoveries, but all involved said it had been a success.
"I'm not disappointed. Even if we were sort of at a dead end, I'm not disappointed because we were able to eliminate some things, which narrows things down better for us," said Tina Sinclair's sister, Sharon Garry, who helped organize the search with Alba. "We started in a couple of areas of Pisgah we're not finished with."
It was definitely a success. Just because you don't find anything doesn't mean it's not a success. We eliminated some areas we don't have to come out and search again. When you go searching you get a feel for the area," he said late Sunday as he drove home to New York. "Geraldo just called me."
Sinclairs get new memorial after original one is stolen By PAUL H. HEINTZ, Reformer Staff
excerpt
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- On the day Bethany Sinclair would have celebrated her 22nd birthday, a small group of family and friends installed a new memorial on Mountain Road honoring Bethany and her mother...
Six and a half years after Tina and Bethany Sinclair disappeared from their Chesterfield home, their family has not given up hope....
Working with a private investigator, they plan to mount yet another search of the area Oct. 27 and 28 with volunteer and professional teams.
..The new memorial -- a sign post with a picture of the Sinclairs and the words, "In loving memory of Tina & Bethany Sinclair" -- replaces a wooden cross, which disappeared between two and three weeks ago.
Garry, who regularly visits the memorial at the end of Mountain Road, said that one week the cross was there and the next it was gone.
"At first I thought somebody had knocked it down, but it's gone. It's completely gone," she said, as Tim Alexander, a family friend, placed the new sign in a bed of concrete and rocks.
Garry has her own idea about what happened to the memorial. She said it went missing shortly after Eugene Van Bowman, Jr. was released from jail for an unrelated offense and spotted driving in the area by a neighbor.
...Bowman has been named by the New Hampshire Attorney General's office as "a person we have been interested in speaking with."'
"Ironically the 'person of interest' in the case was released from jail on a parole violation around the same time," Garry said of the sign's disappearance.
Though Garry said neighbors called the police after they saw Bowman speeding on Mountain Road recently, Chesterfield Police Chief Lester Fairbanks said he was unaware of such an incident.
...Garry said she is pleased with its replacement, which was paid for with money from a fund set up in honor of the two.
..."We do plan to have a little more surveillance. The neighborhood watch will be keeping an eye on this so we don't lose this one too."
The upcoming search of the area is being planned by Gil Alba, a private investigator and former New York City police detective. Garry said several missing persons groups and professional search teams have also volunteered to assist in scouring the area. They are also hoping residents of the are will volunteer to help.
...according to Fairbanks, the Chesterfield department cannot take part because doing so would make the search an official police investigation and all searchers agents of the state.
Those interested in assisting the search can reach Garry at mypurplestar@aol.com.
Gil Alba (Private Investigator) on our case, attending Mother's Day Vigil, May 12th, 2007
(Wearing Tina and Bethany's Button and Butterfly on his Shoulder) above.
Effort In Mother, Daughter Disappearance Investigation
(Excerpt)
KEENE, N.H. -- The family of a mother and daughter who vanished nearly six years ago are hoping some private investigators can help shed new light on the case.
Tina Sinclair and her daughter Bethany were last seen near their home in West Chesterfield in February 2001. Since then, police, friends and family have searched for the pair but found no clues as to what happened to them.
On Wednesday, a nationally known private investigator and his team met with family and members of law enforcement. Gil Alba, a former New York City police detective and former FBI Agent Bob Booth believe they can uncover new information.
"I can find out a lot more than some police in some of these cases," said Alba. "People would rather talk to me sometimes instead of the police."
During the investigation of the case, police identified Eugene Van Bowman as a person of interest. He was Tina's boyfriend. She and her daughter lived with Van Bowman.
"They had a tumultuous relationship," said Tina's Sister Sharon Garry. "He'd threatened her life before."...........
Five years later, cold case heats up By CATE LECUYER, Reformer Staff (Excerpt)
Thursday, November 30
BRATTLEBORO -- Years ago, Sharon Garry thought she would be teasing her sister on her 40th birthday.
Instead, on Wednesday, she was hoping the private investigator she hired would shed some light on what happened to her sister and her daughter.
In an effort "to leave no stone unturned," Garry recently hired private investigator Gil Alba from New York City after seeing him profiled on the television program "MSNBC Investigates: Missing or Murdered." He specializes in missing person and cold cases, and Garry hopes he will bring a fresh perspective and new energy into the effort to find her sister and niece...
On Wednesday they established a rapport with New Hampshire State Police and the Attorney General's Office, and plan to interview as many people as they can, digging for any new clues.
"If we find anything, we're going to come to the police," Alba said, adding the team does not intend to step on any official toes.
By the same token, all police investigative files are sealed. "As a private investigator, I don't care what the police have," Alba said.
Instead, he hopes to start fresh, re-interviewing people who have probably already been interviewed by police, and essentially talking to as many people as possible.
"Just by going around and talking to people, I don't care how old the case is, we can find some information," he said.
Bethany was a student in Keene at the time of her disappearance. She would have graduated in 2004. Tina had just finished beauty school and was on her way to becoming a beautician.
According to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Sinclair's live-in boyfriend, Eugene Van Bowman Jr., was the last person to see them. ..
Bowman told police that after an argument with his girlfriend on Feb. 2, 2001, he left the house only to return two hours later to find the two woman and most of their belongings gone. The Sinclairs left behind their car and their cat. Bowman told police that the car had a flat tire and the women must have called for a ride...
"We're going to keep an open mind," Alba said. "How do you know it wasn't three or four people?"
Until recently, Bowman lived in the Chesterfield home he shared with the two women.
In May 2001, he was sentenced to two to 15 years for sexual assault charges in an unrelated case, and released on parole in October 2003. Garry said he is now back in prison for violating his parole.
After speaking to people around town on Wednesday, the investigative team discovered the house was recently sold. Garry said she's hopeful it provides an opportunity for police to search parts of the house and property that may have been overlooked before.
For her, seeing the house in new hands brought back memories of her sister and niece.
"It's the first time we had a chance to be in the house since Tina and Bethany were gone," Garry said.
On a windowsill in the breezeway, Garry found an old birdhouse her sister left behind.
In the garage, she found a carving in the cement floor that must have been done while it was still wet. It said Tina, Bethany and Van (presumably for Van Bowman) with the date 2000 and a flower. But the names Tina and Bethany were chipped away.
"This isn't the perfect crime," Alba said. "The pressure is still on."
COLD CASE / STARTING OVER Sinclairs' family hopeful detectives will find new leads
Melanie Plenda Sentinel Staff
Private investigator Gil Alba, who has been asked to look into the case of a missing Chesterfield woman and her daughter, has to start from scratch.
This is no easy feat, he said, on a case already five years cold and without the benefit of what local police investigators have already gathered....
.....Sharon Garry, sister of Tina Sinclair, has hired Alba Investigations, a private investigation agency in New York, in hopes of having a fresh pair of eyes take a look at a case that has yet to be solved.
"I feel like this is a ray of hope," she said.
Garry and the private investigators met Wednesday with local law enforcement and Senior Assistant Attorney General Simon Brown to discuss how they can all work together and to exchange information.
Though the official investigators did not share any of the findings of the investigation so far with the New York private detectives - all records in the case have been sealed because it's an ongoing investigation - Alba said the meeting was more of a professional courtesy........
......Brown said though he couldn't share any of the details of the investigation with the New York detectives, he hopes that they will share anything they discover with law enforcement.
A new development that Garry said gives her reason to hope that the case could take a step forward is that the house the Sinclairs shared with Van Bowman has been sold. Garry said the new owner, Michael N. Lacroix, is a longtime friend of the family. She believes this may make it easier for police and investigators to do more searches on the property for clues or remains.
Sinclair's family members have always said they believe Van Bowman had something to do with the Sinclair's disappearance, though he has never been charged in connection with the case. He is currently in jail on an unrelated parole violation.
According to Alba's Web site, the agency is dedicating three detectives to the Sinclair case, including Alba himself. The agency specializes in high-profile cold cases and Alba has been featured on TV news programs such as "48 Hours," MSNBC and "Fox News," among others, the site said.
In addition to Alba, Robert E. Booth, a 29-year veteran of the FBI, and Thomas P. Shamshak Sr., a retired police officer, will be investigating the case.
Alba said the next step is to go back and interview everyone involved in the case or who may remember anything about the days leading up to and following the Sinclairs' disappearance. Their investigation, it seems, will rely heavily on information from the public.
November 30, 2006
Expert joins effort to solve six-year mystery
By STEPHEN SEITZ Herald Staff
(Excerpt)
KEENE, N.H. — For one Brattleboro, family, the question still echoes: Where
are they? Where are Tina and Bethany Sinclair?
Missing persons expert Gil Alba hopes he can help answer that question. He
is donating his time to help investigate the disappearance of the mother and
daughter, who have been missing for nearly six years.
Alba has years of police and FBI experience and runs Alba Investigations,
based in the New York metropolitan area. He consults with law enforcement
agencies, private clients and news organizations.
"We are not getting paid for this," Alba said at a news conference here on
Wednesday. "What I'm after is closure."
Boston.com news Police resume search for missing woman, daughter April 28, 2006 excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. Searchers with dogs were in woods Friday in West Chesterfield, an area that has been searched before.
State police say the search was prompted by a tip from Canine Alert Search Team of Keene.
Union Leader Human remains found off I-93 Sunday, Apr. 16, 2006 excerpt
CONCORD – A forensic anthropologist is being called in to help identify the man whose skeletal remains were found in a wooded area just off Interstate 93 Friday afternoon.
...determined to be those of an adult male, were found by a man walking in the woods shortly after 4 p.m. Friday. Police sealed off the area overnight, and authorities began searching the area and removing the remains yesterday morning.
There are four individuals from New Hampshire posted on the New Hampshire State Police Web site's missing persons page. Three are women: Maura Murray, and Tina and Bethany Sinclair.
The only male is Lorne Boulet, born March 27, 1980. According to the Web site, he has been missing since July 29, 2001 from Chichester — one town east of Concord.
Nuclear concern: High time to wonder about safety Tuesday, April 5, 2005' (Archived at Keenesentinel.com) excerpt
...Nearby Vermont Yankee is one of the oldest plants in the country. In recent months, the 550-megawatt electricity-producer has been experiencing an uncomfortable string of mishaps and uncertainties.
Plant officials lost track of — and eventually located — two pieces of a nuclear fuel rod. The idea of a nuclear plant losing track of its spent fuel was strange and scary enough to make national headlines.
In June, a significant transformer fire sent flames shooting high above the plant.
During the emergency shutdown that followed, the pumps that circulate water in the reactor core unexpectedly stopped working.
Then came word that cracks had developed in Vermont Yankee’s steam dryer — a situation that might cause pieces to break off and get into steam lines.
In July, an employee of Central Vermont Public Service, doing outside work miles away in Brattleboro, accidentally disconnected part of the plant’s emergency-alert system.
A backup generator was triggered by that incident, but a warning failed to sound. So plant operators didn’t realize what had happened. After the generator used up its fuel, much of the emergency-alert system for many thousands of people in both Vermont and New Hampshire was out of service for about 14 hours.
Troubles and uncertainties at Vermont Yankee concern everyone in this region. The plant is just across the Connecticut River from southwestern New Hampshire. Five New Hampshire communities are in the emergency evacuation zone: Chesterfield, Hinsdale, Richmond, Winchester and the Westport section of Swanzey.
Notation:
Security was so lax at Vermont Yankee that in August 2001, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staged a drill in which three mock terrorists gained access to the plant. The agency gave Vermont Yankee the worst security rating among the nation's 103 reactors.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is where POI worked while Tina and Bethany lived with him as a Chemist??
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Eugene Van Bowman... is expected to be released today after serving a two-year sentence for an unrelated sexual assault charge.
...investigators and volunteers have combed through the area as well as rocky areas of Mount Wantastiquet in search of clues.
A team of cadaver-sniffing dogs from an Indianapolis search and rescue team assisted in the hunt for clues last month, and members of the missing women's family have also enlisted the aid of Los Angeles psychic Carla Baron. A search of parts of the Connecticut River in late August using high-tech sonar equipment provided no clear breakthrough in the case.
In May 2001, Van Bowman was sentenced to serve a two-to-15-year sentence for three counts of aggravated sexual assault against a minor. The offense occurred about a decade earlier.
...adding that he will be on parole for the next 13 years and will also be placed on the local sex offender registry.
Sonar Used To Search For Missing Mother, Daughter Investigators Think Bodies May Be In River www.thechamplainchannel.com/ excerpt
HINSDALE, N.H. -- Authorities are searching the Connecticut River in an effort to discover what happened to a mother and her daughter missing for 2.5 years.
Investigators Thursday used side-scanning sonar, a technology developed by a North Salem, N.H., company that can map the riverbed of the Connecticut River between Hinsdale and Vermont.
"There are only certain areas on the river that were not ice-covered at that time...
...authorities said they strongly suspect foul play.
The new search did not turn up anything of significance.
Authorities have conducted several searches of the Connecticut River and Bowman's house and yard.
HINSDALE, N.H. -- Using high-tech sonar equipment, New Hampshire State Police troopers searched part of the Connecticut River.
Investigators working on the missing persons case of Tina and Bethany Sinclair have searched the river near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant more than six times in the same time frame, but this was the first time searchers used such advanced equipment.
"We didn't find anything of evidentiary value," said Sgt. Russell Lamson of the New Hampshire Department of Safety, one of the chief investigators on the case. "We do want to look at some of the information we gathered closer, though."
"Carla is very descriptive and accurate about the details," said Sharon Garry of Connecticut. Garry's sister Tina, 34, and 15-year-old niece Bethany Sinclair have been missing for more than two years from their West Chesterfield, N.H., home.
"Carla led us to the area where she said we would find a container that was used by the man involved in their disappearance," Garry said.But finding law enforcement officers willing to listen to the advice of a psychic is still a challenge for families.
Psychic 'sees' Sinclair women's fate (Archived at Reformer) July 15, 2003 excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Psychic Carla Baron says she witnessed the last few minutes of Tina and Bethany Sinclair's lives, while on the phone last week.
"Bethany and Tina came through on the other end of the phone ... its sort of like tuning into a radio frequency," said Baron, who was recently featured on a Court TV show called "Psychic Detectives."
...What she can say is that she believes the two were murdered and their bodies left in a "cave-like" formation in a hilly or mountainous area.
Baron said a brief argument between Tina and a man escalated and that Tina was choked to death. The man was either intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, said Baron, and the killing was spontaneous and provoked by a humiliating comment Tina made.
Bethany likely witnessed her mother's murder, Baron said, and was hit in the head by a heavy object and knocked unconscious. The two women were placed in a truck owned by the man.
"The truck must have had a flatbed because I sensed that Bethany was placed in the back and Tina was up front," Baron said. The truck took a right out of the driveway, Baron said, and the bodies of the two women were brought to a mountainous area and placed together in a cave-like opening and covered with tree branches for camouflage.
"He posed them together," Baron said, adding that the man then got sentimental and apologized. Garry said she is convinced that Baron can add information to the search for her sister and niece. The insights and knowledge Baron has displayed during the sessions runs parallel with information that Garry has learned, she said.
Neighbors are wary of former inmate's homecoming (4-16-03) By SENTINEL STAFF excerpt
WEST CHESTERFIELD -- When Eugene Van Bowman Jr. comes home, the neighborhood won't be throwing a party.
Bowman -- linked to Tina M. and Bethany Sinclair, the mother and daughter who disappeared from his home in 2001 -- was scheduled to be released from N.H. State Prison in Concord this morning, but his parole was denied,said Jeff Lyons, public information officer for the N.H. Department of Corrections.
He plans to return to 182 Mountain Road in West Chesterfield, where he owns a large house and several cabins overlooking the Connecticut River, and work in Fitzwilliam.
That homecoming "is just going to be uncomfortable," said Gerrit Speulstra, who owns a house near Bowman's.
Speulstra said he doesn't want to speculate what happened to Tina and Bethany Sinclair.
The sex conviction "is bad enough," he said.
Speulstra said he's seen Bowman occasionally in the 11 years he's lived in the neighborhood, but doesn't know much about him.
He remembers seeing Bowman drive his yellow Scat hovercraft across the Connecticut River. The boat now sits in Bowman's yard, along with two other boats, an old car and a swing set.
Authorities will be watching Bowman because he'll be on parole for about 13 years for sexual assault and is a convicted sex offender, required to register with the Chesterfield Police Department, said Sgt. Russell B. Lamson, lead investigator in the Sinclair case.
MEDIA 2002
Date: February 2, 2002 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- A $5,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to the whereabouts of Tina and Bethany Sinclair. The reward, offered by the Cheshire County Crime Stoppers, was announced Friday by New Hampshire State Police Colonel Gary Sloper and Attorney General Philip McLaughlin.
Anyone who may have any information on the Sinclairs' disappearance is strongly urged to call the state police (603) 358-3333, the crime stoppers at (603) 357-6600 or e-mail...
Sinclair women went missing year ago Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: February 2, 2002 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- On Friday, Feb. 2, 2001, Tina Sinclair went to work. On Saturday, 15-year-old Bethany Sinclair went to the movies with her boyfriend. She told him she'd see him on Monday. But on Monday, Feb. 5, Bethany didn't go to school, and Tina didn't go to work.
A year later, the two women are still missing without a trace, their family is heartbroken and New Hampshire authorities fear they are investigating a double homicide...
MEDIA 2001
Date: November 2, 2001 Publication: Bennington Banner (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. - Though not yet as cold as it was when Tina and Bethany Sinclair vanished, the cooling weather and the possibility of the Connecticut River freezing are helping to prompt an e-mail campaign to New Hampshire and Vermont legislators. Tina, 34, and her daughter Bethany, 15, disappeared in February, and an intensive police search has failed to locate the missing women. The two were living with Eugene Van Bowman of Chesterfield, currently serving a 2-to-15-year sentence in prison...
Date: October 19, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) Bethany and Tina are still missing
excerpt
Editor of the Reformer:
Oct. 15 marked the 16th birthday of my niece, Bethany Sinclair. This is also the eighth month that Bethany and her mother, Tina, have been missing. This was a hard day for all of her family and all of her friends.
I ask that everyone take a moment to remember Bethany and Tina. We must not forget that they are missing. I would also ask if anyone has any information to please call the police.
Glenda D. Mitroff
Police search anew for missing women
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: September 18, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- New Hampshire State Police again combed the Mountain Road home of convicted child molester Eugene Van Bowman Saturday, seeking clues to the disappearance of Bowman's girlfriend and her daughter more than seven months ago. The officers were acting under a search warrant issued by Keene District Court, which remained under seal Monday.
Assistant Attorney General Simon Brown, who is handling the case, said some evidence was seized but wouldn't say
Help find missing daughter, mother
Date: August 22, 2001 Publication: Bennington Banner (VT)
excerpt
We need your help! My daughter, Bethany Sinclair 15, and her mother, Tina Sinclair 34, have been missing from their home in West Chesterfield, N.H. since about Feb. 3, 2001. Foul play is suspected. The media has covered this little. We are very concerned. Actually, we are frantic at this point.
What we feel we need to do is to get this into the forefront of people's minds. As one does not just fall off the face of the planet, we are sure someone out there knows something about Mother, girl still missing...
VIGIL TO BE HELD FOR MOTHER, DAUGHTER Published on August 12, 2001
Family members of a missing New Hampshire mother and daughter will hold a candlelight vigil next week hoping to spark new interest in the mystery. Tina Sinclair, 34, and her daughter Bethany, 15, disappeared in February from their West Chesterfield home. Police have few leads, but say there is a strong possibility that the Sinclairs met with foul play. The vigil will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church on Walnut Street in Brattleboro.
Missing women aren't forgotten
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: August 11, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt BRATTLEBORO -- When Tina Sinclair laughed, everyone around her laughed. "Because her laugh is funny," sister Sharon Garry recalls.
Tina's daughter Bethany's laugh was the same way.
But Garry doesn't hear Bethany and Tina laughing anymore.
Because Tina, 34, and Bethany, 15, disappeared six months ago, without a trace. It's almost as though they evaporated into the air or melted with the snow one brief February...
Search for missing women moves south of Vernon dam
Date: August 7, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
VERNON -- Police and Fish and Game officials from two states searched the Connecticut River again Monday for clues to the disappearance of Chesterfield, N.H., residents Tina and Bethany Sinclair. The Sinclairs have not been heard from since the weekend of Feb. 3. The search took place from the Vernon hydroelectric dam to the Massachusetts border.
Teams of detectives from both Vermont and New Hampshire used boats to search the area south of the dam, along the river embankments. Foot searches...
Officials: Woman in river was slain
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: July 10, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
HINSDALE, N.H. -- A woman whose body was found Sunday morning in the Connecticut River was the victim of homicide, authorities said. Officials announced Monday afternoon that the woman had been bludgeoned to death. She died of head trauma.
The announcement was made jointly by Attorney General Philip McLaughlin, Col. Gary Sloper of the New Hampshire State Police, and acting Chief John Dudek of the Hinsdale Police Department.
Three fishermen from Hudson, N.H., found the woman floating...
Two bodies taken from river over weekend Date: July 9, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt HINSDALE, N.H. -- Two bodies have been pulled from the Connecticut River in a 24-hour period in separate incidents.
The body of an unidentified woman was spotted by a fisherman Sunday in Hinsdale, and it was pulled out by Brattleboro, Vt., firefighters.
Late Saturday afternoon, the body of Donald Chartier, 52, of Brattleboro, was pulled from the river farther north. Witnesses said he was swimming from the Vermont side to an island near the Route 119 bridge when he went under.
High court deliberates in missing women case
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: June 7, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CONCORD, N.H. -- An assistant New Hampshire attorney general told the state Supreme Court Thursday that "the possibility of foul play is very real" in the mysterious disappearance of two women from a Chesterfield home in February, and referred to "suspects" who may be under investigation. The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as the attorney general's office appealed a lower court's ruling that the contents of three...
Bowman sentenced to prison
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: May 24, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
KEENE, N.H. -- Convicted child molester Eugene Van Bowman was sentenced Wednesday to 2 to 15 years in New Hampshire state prison. The crimes for which Bowman was sentenced were unrelated to the disappearance of his girlfriend, Tina Sinclair, and her daughter, Bethany, from his Chesterfield home in February, but nonetheless the tiny Cheshire Superior Courthouse was packed with members of the media and attorneys, as well as members of the victim's family.
Bowman, a tall, clean-cut
River search yields no clue to missing women
Author: PATRICK ARMSTRONG Reformer Staff Date: May 18, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Officials looking for a missing mother and daughter completed a three-day search of part of the Connecticut River and the immediate area Wednesday without finding anything. "We found nothing at all," said New Hampshire State Police Sgt. Peter Riesenberg, who is overseeing the investigation for the state police.
Tina Sinclair, 34, and her 15-year-old daughter, Bethany, were last seen by Tina Sinclair's boyfriend, Eugene Van Bowman, at
Warrant specifics stay sealed
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: April 21, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
KEENE, N.H. -- The search warrant for Eugene Van Bowman's property and the supporting documentation remained under seal Friday, despite an attempt by media to unseal them. A secret hearing held at Keene District Court Friday afternoon, closed to all but the litigating parties and the Attorney General's office, and court personnel were not at liberty to disclose even who the parties were. The Reformer was not a party.
Van Bowman has been jailed since last week on...
Chesterfield man pleads guilty to sexual assault on minor
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: April 13, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Eugene Van Bowman, whose girlfriend along with her daughter disappeared without a trace two months ago, was held without bail Wednesday on an unrelated crime. He faces a jail term of two to 15 years. Van Bowman pled guilty to three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault on a minor, who was eight or nine years old at the time. He was immediately held without bail. A sentencing hearing is scheduled in May.
"He had these charges pending in Superior...
Authorities mum on results of Chesterfield home search
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: April 9, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- A German shepherd, loping with his nose to the ground, tugged a plain-clothes trooper up the Van Bowman driveway, then down the muddied edge of Mountain Road. The dog is specially trained to find cadavers, but as the dog's handler broadened his range to the edges of the Van Bowman property and the nearby woods Saturday afternoon, the only decaying organic material discovered was kitty litter.
A Keene-based tow truck winched Tina Sinclair's white...
Investigation into N.H. pair's disappearance stalls
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: March 31, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- At first, Tina and Bethany Sinclair's disappearance was nothing but puzzling. Nearly two months later, the puzzle is a full-time assignment for two New Hampshire State Police detectives. Grainy photos of Tina, 34, and 15-year-old Bethany stare from missing person posters on both sides of the river. The New Hampshire Attorney General's office is in charge of the investigation.
But the New Hampshire Attorney General's office has...
Author: PATRICK ARMSTRONG and JAMES PENTLAND Reformer Staff Date: March 2, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- With the disappearance of local residents Tina and Bethany Sinclair continuing to baffle local authorities, statewide agencies joined the hunt this week. "The attorney general's office and state police have joined the investigation," said Simon Brown, assistant attorney general with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, on Thursday. "Some detectives from Troop C are working on this case."
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: February 23, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Where are Tina and Bethany? Tina Sinclair, 34, a nurse, and her daughter Bethany, 15, a Keene High School student, were last seen on Feb. 3 by Bethany's boyfriend. Nearly three weeks later, police still can't find the pair -- despite the fact that their disappearance has grabbed the print and TV media and their photos broadcast over at least two states.
"We still don't have one single scrap of anything," said
N.H. woman, girl missing
Author: MEGGAN CLARK Reformer Staff Date: February 16, 2001 Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) excerpt
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Police are searching for a local woman who disappeared Feb. 3 with her 15-year-old daughter, leaving the cat behind and the car in the garage. Police say no one has seen or heard from Tina Sinclair, 34, or her 15-year-old daughter, Bethany, in nearly two weeks. Lt. Lester Fairbanks said Sinclair's cellular phone is crammed with messages; her family is frantic.
According to Fairbanks, Tina Sinclair's boyfriend, Eugene Van Bowman, was the last to...
EIGHTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY
of Missing mother and daughter, Tina and Bethany Sinclair
February 3rd, 2009
Tina and Bethany Sinclair have been missing from West Chesterfield, NH since Feb. 4, 2001. They were living with Eugene Van Bowman, Jr. (POI) who was convicted of Sex Offense, against a minor, in NH after their disappearances. Tina and Bethany were last seen on Mountain Road in NH where they lived with Eugene Van Bowman, Jr. and, allegedly, another young man.
