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Narrator:

Narrator: In March of 2009,

Narrator: In March of 2009, a cadaver dog

tracked a trail of death in a Virginia backyard.

Lagoe: For the body to be just discarded like that,

was really pretty shocking.

Narrator: The discovery sent investigators

down a bizarre road.

Lee: He's in the middle of a bunch of outlaw bikers

and I'm gonna sic the police on that group of people?

We got lie, after lie, after lie.

Social security money from two men

was still going in to a different account.

This was salacious.

We just both basically said at the same time,

"I think we have another body."

Narrator: Who were these two victims?

Now, it's like our heads are spinning.

Narrator: And who had been hiding the deadly truth?

The body did not have a head.

As a reporter, I'm going, "Whoa."

Narrator: In March of 2009,

investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe

received at tip about a developing story

in the backyard of a Louisa County Virginia home.

I got a text saying, "We're gonna be out looking for a body on this property.

You might want to get a camera out here."

Louisa County being a largely rural county,

doesn't have a lot of crime.

And so, regardless of whether it's a murder,

we knew there was a story here

that we wanted to get to the bottom of.

Narrator: By the time Lagoe arrived, police had already

secured the area of the expansive yard.

The veteran reporter sensed a huge story was about to break.

It's not every day that you have a big news story in Louisa County.

My reporter alarm bells were definitely going off.

I was thinking, "I wanna find out just what's going on."

But we had no idea just how strange this was gonna get.

Narrator: From behind the police tape,

he and other reporters watched a cadaver dog

sniffing for the unmistakable scent of death.

Lowe: It looked like it had a purpose,

like it was on to something.

Narrator: Investigators hung on hope

that a mystery that had been plaguing them for months

was about to be solved.

This case has got to be the craziest case

that I've ever had to work.

You always hear about it in other communities,

but never in your own backyard.

Narrator: In November of 2007,

Lee Bowles arrived in Virginia

to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with his dad Cody.

I made a phone call to my dad

to find out what time Thanksgiving was gonna be.

Lisa, my dad's girlfriend, answered,

and was like, "Oh, your dad's not here."

She just said that he met a friend

and they went on a bike ride to Sturgis in South Dakota.

If he was gonna go all the way across the country

and do something which would be a super exciting thing,

he would have told me.

Family was really important to him.

That was probably the most important thing to him.

But my dad, he did love riding bikes.

Even after he had his heart attack,

they put a pacemaker in,

and he still continued to get out and do things.

He had his heart attack when I was ten.

I knew that he had a heart condition at a young age.

So every time I went to visit him,

I didn't know if that was gonna be the last time.

Narrator: Lee was surprised and disappointed

when he left that weekend without seeing his dad.

Lee: That's not like him.

He wouldn't just stand everybody up

for Thanksgiving.

Narrator: Days turned into months,

and with no word from Cody,

Lee and his two siblings started to get concerned.

Lee: We were calling Lisa and we were like,

"What's going on? Have you seen him?"

And she said he got in with some kind of militia group

or anti-governmental type of group,

and he was hanging out with them, and, you know,

they were an illegal operation-- biker gang.

Narrator: Lee got a sinking feeling,

maybe his dad had gone off the grid

with the wrong group of guys.

Lee: He's a biker, he's a motorcycle guy,

and I did notice in the last few years

he got to be be more of a conspiracy theory type of person.

I don't particularly want to call the police on him.

He's in the middle of a bunch of, you know, outlaw bikers

and I'm gonna sic the police on that group of people?

What do you think they're gonna do to him?

Narrator: Though worried, Lee held off getting in touch with authorities,

because surely his dad would reach out eventually.

But after about a year, and still no word from Cody,

Lee finally made the call

he knew he should have made long ago.

I made a phone call to the police department

and filed a report.

Porter: Lee was concerned about his father

and his father's health.

Several years before, his father had a heart attack,

and was on approximately, he said, ten medications,

needed these medications on a daily basis.

And he said that they always had a good relationship,

and it was quite out of character for him

not to stay in contact with him.

Narrator: Hoping to make better sense of the situation,

Detectives Howard Porter and Carlton Johnson

paid a visit to Cody's live-in girlfriend Ulisa Chavers.

She offered investigators the same story

she shared with Lee.

Porter: She told us that he had gone to Sturgis

for the motorcycle rally,

met with some motorcycle gang out there

that's involved in the militia,

and that he left and traveled back out there to stay with them.

She said he wouldn't contact his family

because, you know, he was upset with them.

You know, he thought that they were just

trying to take advantage of him,

trying to borrow money from them,

and he wanted less responsibilities.

Narrator: The detectives felt like they may have

just stepped into the middle of a family drama.

Porter: I gave her my business card

with my cell phone number on it,

and I told her when she hears from Cody, have him call me,

so we can get this issue cleared up.

Narrator: For Detectives Lowe and Johnson,

the truth of Cody Bowles' whereabouts wasn't adding up.

Was he intentionally avoiding contact with his family?

Or could he be in harm's way?

Lowe: We started looking into the files

just to make sure he hadn't been arrested somewhere

or he hasn't been in an accident.

After that, we started looking at driver's licenses and bank accounts.

And also, we started working with

the Social Security Administration,

'cause he was receiving social security checks.

So we wanted to see if-- was he receiving money out west?

How was he living? Where was his social security check going?

Narrator: Were Cody's social security checks still being cashed?

Turns out that it was going into his bank account.

So then at that point, at least we know he's alive,

he's doing okay, and he's out there on his own.

Narrator: The detectives delivered the news to Ulisa,

and surprisingly, she had some news of her own to share.

She said that Cody had stopped by with a friend of his.

Came in Christmas Eve, stayed the night,

and he left out Christmas day.

And I asked why, you know, you didn't call me.

She goes, "He didn't want to.

He doesn't want to have any contact

with any kind of law enforcement."

She told us that they had a little party,

Christmas party next door.

And she actually said, "Wait a minute,

we took some pictures,"

and pulled out a digital camera

and started showing me

some of the pictures that she took.

We have proof that, okay, he did come into town,

and they did have Christmas together.

At that point, in my mind, the case is done.

Narrator: The detectives were eager to show the photos

to Cody's worried son Lee.

Johnson: We were getting ready to leave

and Lieutenant Porter says, "Hey."

"Can I borrow the memory card out of it

and I'll bring it back to you?"

She said sure.

So I pulled it out and took it back to the office.

Lee: Lieutenant Porter showed me a picture

and he just wanted my opinion on it.

Immediately, when I seen the picture,

I did not believe that it was a current picture.

Both of them looked a little younger in the photo to me.

It made me realize at that moment

that there was something very wrong.

We just put the card in the computer

and started looking at all the pictures,

and right away we knew some of the pictures

had been manipulated.

And that's when we said,

"Wow, this is a picture of a picture."

We all basically said at the same time,

"I think we have another body."

What shocked us was his head was gone.

Narrator:

Narrator: 53-year-old Cody Bowles

mysteriously disappeared over a year ago.

His live-in girlfriend Ulisa Chavers

appeared to have nothing to hide

until investigators caught her in a lie.

( radio police chatter )

Narrator: It's enough to serve Ulisa with a search warrant

for her home and property.

Johnson: I told her why we were there,

that we had a search warrant.

And her question to me was,

"So you think you're gonna find his body

on this property some place?"

It was just strange,

and immediately I became suspicious.

We had thought that at this point

we're looking for a body.

Narrator: Investigators call in a search team

and a cadaver dog to scour Cody and Ulisa's yard

for any signs of a body.

Cadaver dog walked around the well and then sat down.

And then all the activity was centered on this well,

and that's where all the attention was very quickly.

Lowe: As soon as I saw the dog sit down,

we had that sick feeling in our stomach

that I hope he's not down in that well.

Once the cap was off, there was a very strong odor.

Looking straight down on the top of it,

we could see what appeared to be

something encased in a blanket of some sort.

Porter: At that point, we drop a ladder down,

and had him crawl down.

Not the best decision I've ever made in my life.

Once I got to the object in the well,

I started bobbing it with my feet,

so I knew it was kind of floating.

We had gotten a shark hook down there

and we snagged the object

and started lifting it out,

and then we saw a mostly decomposed body.

Made the hairs on the back of our necks stand up when we first saw it.

Lagoe: It really was a creepy moment to realize

that someone's body had been just shoved down this well.

And for the body to be just discarded like that

was really pretty shocking.

Narrator: The badly decomposed body was beyond recognition.

But suddenly, investigators noticed something significant.

As soon as we got it out, I could see the pacemaker

that Cody had because of his heart condition

hanging from the body.

That's when I was thinking, "Yeah, we found Cody Bowles."

Narrator: As the gruesome scene unfolded outside,

Detective Johnson sat inside with Cody's girlfriend Ulisa.

I get a text from Lieutenant Porter.

He says, "We found the body."

So, I looked out the window

and I saw that they were surrounding a well

at the back of a property.

I said, "Ulisa, come over here."

I said, "Look, they found the body."

And she looked at me,

she never got emotional,

never got upset, never cried,

was just very, very calm.

It's remarkable, her ability to remain calm

and to not get emotional at all.

Narrator: For Lee Bowles,

the long painful search for his father

came to a heart-breaking end.

We had our answer to where he was at.

He was there the whole time.

He was on the property the whole time.

And, uh, it was a pretty horrible feeling.

Words are way overrated.

There's no words to describe certain things and, like,

that's just an empty feeling.

You're like, "I don't know what to do at this point."

It's just kind of like, "Where do we go from here?"

Narrator: Growing up, Lee knew Cody was the kind of dad

other kids dreamed about.

Lee: He was my father, but we had a relationship

more like a friendship.

He would joke with me about things

that he probably shouldn't joke about with me,

and it thought it was cool.

He really liked to do outdoor things.

He was an outdoor kind of guy.

He liked camping, fishing, going on motorcycle rides.

He'd throw me on the back and drive me around the mountains

and stuff like that.

My best childhood memories of my dad,

was when I got into Go-Kart racing

and building Go-Karts, and he was really good at it.

You got an adjustable hub on the axle.

You can't adjust the engine hub--

you can't adjust that hub on the axle.

Lee: You know, he was really good at mechanics

and building things,

and that was really fun, you know?

And a lot of it was just sitting in the backyard,

you know, working on things, and talking, and hanging out.

Narrator: While Lee and his family mourned Cody's death,

Ulisa had some explaining to do.

For more than a year, she'd insisted

Cody was very much alive.

Could this seemingly sweet lady

be hiding something about Cody's death?

They were stunned when Ulisa eventually admitted

she was with Cody when he died.

Johnson: Ulisa proceeded to tell me

that Cody had died of natural causes,

that his pacemaker had kept going off.

She had begged him to let her call the rescue squad,

but he wouldn't allow that,

and sometime during the night, he passed away.

She said that he was so adamant

that he didn't want the government involved in his life,

and as respect to him, she did not do that.

Narrator: Ulisa had lied for so many months,

but investigators had to consider the fact

she was genuinely trying to honor Cody's wishes.

Even if Cody did die of natural causes,

Ulisa still had a much bigger issue to address.

How did his body wind up in the backyard well?

She said at that point the problem she had

was that he laid in the bedroom for a day or two,

but his dog kept scratching at the door.

and that was getting nerve-wracking.

She eventually wrapped him in a sleeping bag

and drug him out to the shed out back.

She said at that point, she did cover him with lime,

and the reason you cover a body with lime

is to cut the smell way down.

We didn't know what to think.

It was just bizarre.

Narrator: Ulisa's story about covering Cody's body with lime

is so strange, investigators wonder if it could actually be true.

Nonetheless, Detective Carlton had to pose

the obvious question that had yet to be asked.

I said, "This is your chance to come clean."

I said, "Did you kill him?"

Narrator:

Narrator: Nearly a year and a half

Narrator: Nearly a year and a half after disappearing,

investigators found the body of Cody Bowles

floating in his backyard well.

And the folks in Louisa County, Virginia, were beside themselves

when they heard his girlfriend Ulisa Chavers

was being questioned in his bizarre death.

The story that was getting talked about

in the coffee shops around Luisa County,

what everybody was gossiping about is

"Why would his girlfriend throw his body down a well?"

Lee: You don't know exactly what's going on,

and so it's a very weird emotional situation to be in.

Because I never knew before that if she was capable of that.

You don't know what people are capable of.

Narrator: After lying to investigators for so long,

Ulisa finally fessed up to being with Cody when he died,

and to dragging his body to the backyard.

But did she kill him?

She just kept emphasizing that it was natural causes,

that she had not killed him.

Narrator: After he died, Ulisa admitted

she took Cody's body to the shed on the property.

Johnson: I did go out in the shed,

and lo and behold,

there was an imprint the size of a body

and lime all around it.

Narrator: So how did Cody's body get from the shed to the well?

Ulisa claimed when investigators initially came to the house

before Christmas in 2008 asking questions,

she naturally got nervous.

Johnson: She was so afraid that they were going to find

the body at that time.

When they left, she knew she had to move that body.

So, I put him back in the little trailer

and opened it up and took him down to the-- to the well.

Johnson: And that's when she got a little riding lawnmower

and a little trailer behind it

and put the body in that.

Johnson: Tell us about what happened after.

Narrator: Now, Ulisa's deadly secret is out.

Clearly, she'd been covering up

a tremendous amount for a very long time.

What else was she covering and why?

Johnson: She was collecting his social security

for over a year.

Narrator: Collecting Cody's social security was illegal,

but it certainly didn't prove murder.

Johnson: We still didn't know what had killed Cody Bowles.

The medical examiner was going to have to

determine the cause of death.

I didn't have anything to do with his heart failing on him.

She stuck pretty much to the same story

and she was being cooperative.

Narrator: Determined not to let Ulisa walk,

investigators arrested her for social security fraud

and improperly disposing of Cody's body.

Lee: Whether it was murder or whether he passed away,

it made us so mad because the disrespectful manner

of just treating him like he's a piece of trash,

you know, and discarding him.

Lagoe: I knew she would be arraigned the next morning.

I set up with my camera crew in back of the courthouse

where we knew they'd be leading her from a patrol car

into the courthouse for her hearing.

Can you tell us why your boyfriend was in that well?

Do you know how he got there?

You could just see the light bulbs

going off behind her eyes, watch her expression change

like she was searching for the right answer

but didn't know what to say.

I was thinking, this is a cold woman.

Chavers is due back in court on Friday.

By then investigators hope to know

just how her boyfriend died.

Narrator: Three days after pulling his decomposed body from the well,

Cody's toxicology results came back,

and investigators received quite a shock.

Lowe: Cody had a high level

of benztropine in his body.

In fact, it was four times a lethal limit.

Benztropine, it's basically used for Parkinson's disease.

Narrator: The problem was,

Cody Bowles didn't suffer from Parkinson's.

Porter: In my mind, it did raise a red flag

that he didn't die naturally.

Lowe: But we still don't know if he was poisoned,

or did he self-ingest that, or how did that happen?

We had a lot of circumstantial evidence,

but there's a long road between probable cause

and beyond a reasonable doubt.

Narrator: Convinced Ulisa was hiding something about Cody's death,

investigators pored through records

to see if anything in her past

would prove she was a devious and deadly woman.

Lowe: That's when I was talking to Lieutenant Porter

and saying we really need to go back

and look at all her relationships--

past boyfriends, past husbands, anything like that.

Lieutenant Porter and Carlton Johnson

came over to my office.

They said that Ulisa's first husband

Clint Chavers had died about 15 years ago.

Clint Chavers was a military veteran.

They got married and then eventually moved to Virginia.

Johnson: Clint hurt his leg jumping off of a truck.

He suffered from diabetes and had lost his leg.

Narrator: What investigators learned next was shocking.

She was still collecting his social security.

Narrator: Investigators tracked down the couple's daughter Teresa,

who shared quite a peculiar story.

Porter: When she was in high school back in 1994,

she got a call from her mom

saying not to come home from school,

stay the weekend at a friend's house.

And then when she came home after that,

what was strange was the house was very clean.

It had an odor of bleach, which was unusual.

Ulisa told her at the time

that her father had passed away

and the veteran's administration

sent a rescue squad out,

and they had him cremated.

Johnson: Teresa said her mother told her

that the VA had come

and taken the body away so quickly

that there was no time for the funeral.

And, you know, being a teenage girl,

she believed whatever her mother told her.

Narrator: The extraordinary coincidences in Ulisa's life

spoke volumes to investigators,

who immediately tried to corroborate Teresa's story.

First thing we did was we contacted the VA,

and they had no records of it.

They don't have rescue squads,

they don't go out to people's houses,

and they don't cremate anybody.

Now, it's like our heads are spinning.

Narrator:

Narrator: In 2009, investigators

Narrator: In 2009, investigators in Louisa County, Virginia,

suspected Ulisa Chavers may have been behind

the death of her boyfriend Cody Bowles,

and had charged her with illegally disposing of his body.

The deadly web got more tangled

when they learned Ulisa was married to another man

who mysteriously died 15 years ago.

This case had such bizarre facts.

A body in the backyard down a well,

social security money from two dead men

was still going in to Ulisa's account.

This was salacious.

Narrator: Investigators just confirmed

the body of Ulisa's former husband Clint Chavers

wasn't picked up and cremated by the VA

like she claimed to her daughter it had been.

We got lie, after lie, after lie.

So we're getting quite a pile.

Porter: We all basically said at the same time,

"I think we have another body."

Johnson: So once again, we bring Ulisa in

to the interview room and sit down with her.

And as always, she's very calm and very polite.

I explain to her, you know, what we found out,

what we believe, that she had killed her husband.

And at first she denied that she had done anything to Clint.

She kept saying that we were barking up the wrong tree,

and kept denying, denying.

Narrator: Far too familiar with this twisted song and dance,

investigators kept pressing.

At some point, eventually she said that he had been quite ill

and she took care of him for six or seven years.

But then she says, "Clint died of natural causes."

Narrator: Just like she did with Cody, Ulisa calmly explained

why she didn't report the death of her husband.

Porter: She wanted the social security money

'cause she felt like she deserved it

'cause she spent so many years taking care of him.

Narrator: Investigators knew there was more

to this outlandish story,

and invited Ulisa to detail exactly what happened

to her former husband.

She said that she had buried him in the backyard

in the flower garden.

So I gave her a legal pad.

She drew a picture of the house

and the flower bed, and put an X

where she buried the body.

Johnson: Ulisa told us that the body would be wrapped

in a striped sheet.

It was just one of those "wow" moments.

It's just like, what is going on?

This case is just getting even more and more bizarre.

Porter: We went back out with the same cadaver dog,

basically the same crew, down to Amelia County.

Lagoe: I was at work and I got a text from a law enforcement source

who told me, "We're gonna be searching

for another body tied to Ulisa Chavers," so I hit the road.

Shocking developments in the case of a body

found in a Louisa County well.

Authorities now looking for another body.

This time it's the suspect's husband

and it's in another county.

We got out there shortly after law enforcement arrived.

I'm thinking, "Here we got again.

I wonder if they've got a well in the backyard."

I'm standing about 20 yards away

from where investigators are digging.

They let us stand in the side yard there

and watch them as the day progressed.

And all of a sudden, it got quiet.

( dog barking )

The dog was hitting on something.

And then all attention went into this one area.

Johnson: We were digging.

The first thing we hit was a cinderblock,

and next to the cinderblock was a sheet that was striped.

Narrator: The sheet was just as Ulisa described.

Unbelievably enough, she led investigators

straight to Clint's body.

Lagoe: Suddenly, they find the body in the flower bed

wrapped up in a sheet.

We're talking skeletal remains at this point.

But we knew we were gonna be looking for a skeleton

that's gonna be missing a leg

because Clint had lost his leg.

We were relieved when we brought the body out

that it was missing a leg.

What shocked us was

he wasn't supposed to be missing his head.

And his head was gone.

Narrator:

Narrator: In a stunning turn of events,

Ulisa Chavers just led investigators

straight to the headless corpse

of her former husband Clint.

He was buried in the backyard

of the home they used to share.

As a reporter, I'm going, "Whoa, what do you mean

the body didn't have a head?"

The body didn't have a head.

I'm thinking there's no way. No way.

Johnson: So once again, we bring Ulisa in to the Sheriff's office,

into the interview room. We told her, we said,

"Ulisa, where's the head? The head's missing."

And she goes, "Yes, the head's missing."

She told us that she had initially buried Clint Shaver's body.

And then about a year later,

she had decided to move away from that residence.

But she didn't think it was a good idea to leave the body

buried in the backyard,

so she decided she's gonna dig Clint up

and dispose of the body somewhere else.

One time a neighbor almost came over.

Another time, somebody came to read the electric meter

and it was scaring her that somebody was going to

discover her with a corpse.

Lagoe: Eventually, Ulisa took the head

and she just threw it away.

She threw it in the landfill.

Who does that?

Narrator: With two appalling confessions

that she deliberately covered up

the deaths of her husband and boyfriend,

investigators were convinced that she murdered them, too.

But could they prove it?

Johnson: At this point, we do have two bodies,

but not enough to charge for murder on either corpse.

So we charged her with fraud

as far stealing his social security benefits,

and illegal disposal of a body.

After the body was removed from the gravesite,

it was taken to the medical examiner's office in Richmond.

Because it had been 15 years,

they were not able to determine a cause of death.

Narrator: Detective Johnson was concerned

the autopsy wouldn't produce any evidence

pointing to murder.

But then, a small bit of hope.

Johnson: What looked like pieces of rock to me,

he goes, "Here's three pieces of facial bone."

Narrator: Hoping the fragments could be a vital clue,

detectives contacted a doctor at the Smithsonian

who agreed to examine the bones of Clint Chavers.

Johnson: They are experts at interpreting

all types of things about remains, bones.

They have expertise beyond what our

medical examiner's office had.

So, we were hoping that they were going to be able

to help us determine the cause of death.

Narrator: Three days after unearthing the remains of Clint Chavers,

Detective Johnson received the most critical tip yet.

The Smithsonian Institute was able to determine

that those bones were subject to blunt force trauma

at the time of death.

Porter: The way they were cracked were consistent

with being blown out.

And in his opinion,

it's consistent with the skull being shot.

We believe that Ulisa shot him in the head.

After we got the report back from the Smithsonian,

we were able to place a murder charge against Ulisa Chavers.

Narrator: After 15 years,

they finally had Ulisa for killing Clint.

But would she ever face justice

for murdering Cody Bowles?

I felt like she should have been hogtied for what she did,

but there's an investigation process

that they're going through.

Johnson: We felt certain that she had murdered both men,

and we wanted her to go to prison the rest of her life.

In 2009,

In 2009, Ulisa Chavers was charged

with the grisly dismemberment and murder

of her former husband Clint Chavers.

And investigators suspected she killed her boyfriend, too.

Well, at this point no one knew

if this was truly a murder.

There weren't any obvious signs of trauma

on Cody Bowles body when investigators pulled him up

out of the well.

And Ulisa was telling investigators,

"I didn't shoot him and I didn't stab him.

He died of natural causes."

Narrator: Investigators knew Cody had a lethal dose

of benztropine in his system when he died,

a medication for Parkinson's--

a disease Cody didn't have,

just like they knew he had a heart problem

and wore a pacemaker.

We discovered that a pacemaker is very similar

to a black box in an airplane.

That there's a memory, and they can actually tell

the date and time that you died.

And they can also tell

whenever that pacemaker goes off

and is being used.

Narrator: Did Cody Bowles die of natural causes

as Ulisa claimed?

Or like Clint,

did he meet an unseemly demise?

Porter: It turned out there was no serious activations

like Ulisa told us.

It proved that the story that Ulisa gave us,

that there was a cardiac issue

the night that he passed away,

was just another one of her lies.

Johnson: With all the evidence we have

and all the lies that she's told us,

this was as good as the investigation was gonna get

and it was time to charge Ulisa

with killing Cody Bowles.

Lagoe: Ulisa Chavers was absolutely a black widow.

She poisoned her live-in boyfriend,

had him out in the shed,

covered his body in lime,

eventually threw him down a well.

Meanwhile, she's got a dead husband

whose head she's chopped off

in the flower bed of another home.

It was so bizarre.

Narrator: As they prepared their case against Ulisa Chavers,

investigators gained a clear understanding

into the motivation of their black widow.

You have a combination of probably anger and greed.

Cody had talked about maybe moving out west,

but he wasn't talking about taking Ulisa with him.

And I think Ulisa became angry,

so she went ahead and poisoned him.

What I think happened to Clint Chavers as far as Ulisa,

was once again, she had taken care of a man

that was in a wheelchair for six or seven years,

and was just sick and tired of it

and wanted some relief from that.

But also the motive of, if he's gone

I can still collect his money.

And I think Ulisa just woke up one morning and had enough,

and I think she probably used his own gun and shot him.

And then disposed of his body.

Narrator: In December 2010,

62-year-old Ulisa Chavers was scheduled to stand trial

for the murder of Cody Bowles.

Today, multiple murder suspect Ulisa Chavers

claimed she's innocent, pleading not guilty.

Ulisa, is there anything you'd like to say?

Lagoe: No comment today for our cameras.

Lowe: Ulisa Chavers made an Alford Plea,

and an Alford plea is basically saying that

they maintain their innocence,

but there is enough evidence to convict.

Narrator: A judge sentenced Ulisa Chavers to 73 years

for the murders of Cody Bowles and Clint Chavers.

Lagoe: Ulisa Chavers will be 100 years old

before she's even eligible to apply for parole.

A.J. Lagoe, 8 News.

Narrator: For Cody's son Lee,

it's small justice to see the woman

who took so much from so many

ultimately confess so little.

Lee: In the end, she still won't admit

that she killed or did anything wrong.

We all know she did. Evidence shows that she did.

I'm just glad that she's in there

for the rest of her life, and there's no opportunity

for her to do this to somebody else.

Porter: This is the craziest case I've ever had.

Two deaths attributed to one person over so many years?

Finding them buried in the backyard? It's crazy.

Johnson: The only emotion that I ever saw from Ulisa,

which I thought was quite remarkable,

was at one point I saw her shed a single tear.

And she looked at me and said that jail is hard.

Narrator: But nothing compares to living life

without the people you love most.

Lee: I have a three-year-old daughter,

and I'd like for her to know her grandfather,

even though she never had a chance to meet him.

I'd like to kind of instill some of the values in her

that he gave to me, and just tell her

that even though he died tragically, that's not his whole life.

And I'd just like to let her understand that life is short,

and, you know, that he would have wished

he could have been there to meet her.