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When Cody Bowles supposedly left town to join a motorcycle gang,

it actually sounded like something he might do.

But when he stopped contacting his family and didn't fill his life-saving prescriptions,

people got worried and soon one mysterious death was uncovered, and then another. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines. Hello and welcome to crime lines. We are going to do something a little bit

different this week. Actually, if I didn't point it out, you probably wouldn't notice.

But after writing literally hundreds of podcast episodes in the same exact format, it was definitely a change for me.

What we're going to do is we're going to not be as strictly chronological as usual.

Rather, we are going to follow the chronology of the investigation, because that's really what we need to get from this episode. After we just spent two

weeks on a case where a less than adequate early investigation led to no justice, we are going to

talk about how investigators who followed

things through and didn't brush anything off, found justice for people, no one even knew

were murdered. So to follow the story that way, we need to start in October of 2008.

Two men, Lee and David Bowles, went to the police in Louisiana, to report their father, 50-year-old Cody Bulls missing.

This was not a recent disappearance, though.

They actually hadn't heard from him in nearly two years.

The last time they saw their dad in person was Christmas of 2006 when they were in town

for the holiday. Cody was at the time living with his longtime girlfriend, Ulyssa Chhavers,

on an 11-acre rural property. Lee and David got along with Ulyssa, who they knew as Lisa well enough. I mean, when Cody met her in 1996 when she worked at a local convenience store, his sons from his first marriage were already young adults.

His daughter from a different relationship was about eight or so.

Cody didn't work full time because he was on disability after having a massive heart

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