A special agent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) appeared in court on Friday to describe the disturbing details of how he discovered the body of Evelyn Boswell, the 15-month old toddler who wasfound deadin 2020.
Friday’s court hearing was to determine what evidence would be admitted at the trial of Evelyn’s mother,Megan “Maggie” Boswell. Now 20, Maggie faces two counts of felony murder, and one count each of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, tampering with evidence, abusing a corpse and several counts of false reporting to authorities.
Boswell has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held without bond. Her trial is slated for February 2023. Her attorney did not return PEOPLE’s call for comment.
Evelyn Boswell was 15 months old when she was last seen in December 2019.
On Feb. 18, 2020, Boswell’s maternal grandfather and Evelyn’s great-grandfather, David Jones, 68, contacted authorities to report that the toddler was missing and hadn’t been seen since the holidays.
Evelyn Mae Boswell.Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
During the investigation, Maggie Boswell “provided detectives and agents with a number of conflicting statements,” the sheriff’s officesaid in a 2020 statement. In addition, some of the specific information she provided was false, the sheriff’s office said.
Evelyn’s body was finally found in early March 2020 — nearly three months after she was last seen.
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Fraley testified that he removed found Evelyn wrapped in a black trash bag. She was wearing a purple fleece onesie with penguins on it and was wrapped in a gray and white blanket.
Megan Boswell.
“I observed a leg and a foot attached on top of this trash wrapped in that same described fleece blanket,” Fraley testified. “It was consistent with an infant of the described age of the missing victim.”
“She claimed that it was an accidental death,” Fraley told the court. “She and her boyfriend at the time were sleeping in bed with [Evelyn] and when they woke up that morning that she was unresponsive. She had been smothered.”
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source: people.com
