Leslie Bowman was a 3-year-old girl who was killed on January 5, 1972, in Kountze, Texas. She was found dead alongside her grandmother, Mabel McCormick, during what was described as a brutal murder committed in the course of an antique shop robbery. Both victims were killed and the crime scene was set on fire.

Dennis Ray Anderson was arrested, convicted of the murders of Leslie Bowman and Mabel McCormick, and sentenced to two life terms plus a twenty-year maximum for arson; an accomplice received ten years probation. Anderson was later paroled after serving 17 years.

A more recent development reported that a woman’s body was found tied up and stuffed into a barrel at a Houston-area home linked to Anderson; authorities charged him with tampering with evidence while that investigation continued.