DNA ID Replay; The case of Kathleen O'Brien Doyle and Aundria Bowman

DNA: ID

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Episode 168 DNA ID Replay; The case of Kathleen O'Brien Doyle and Aundria Bowman.

While Jess is on winter break preparing new episodes of DNA ID for 2026, we are airing some of our favorite one part episodes weekly in what we call 'DNA ID Replay' episodes. These Replay episodes will air every week while on break with the exception of Christmas week.

In this replay episode, we explore the case of Kathleen O'Brien Doyle and Aundria Bowman which originally aired in episode 29.

In 1980, Kathleen O'Brien Doyle was a young navy wife living alone in Norfolk, Virginia while her husband was stationed on an aircraft carrier. One night as she was getting ready for bed, an attacker entered her home through a window and raped, stabbed and strangled Kathleen. Her case quickly went cold. When Norfolk police and NCIS decided to employ forensic genealogy to find answers in her case, what they discovered also gave them answers to a decades-old missing persons case in Michigan. Kathleen O'Brien Doyle's murderer in Virginia and Aundria Bowman's murderer in Michigan were one and the same. And he was still around to answer for his crimes.

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2:28.9	It was 1980. Vivian Mahoney was concerned. She was not able to get a hold of her friend Kathleen.
2:35.6	The two had hung out just two days before, but on this Thursday, September 11th, Kathleen
2:40.5	wasn't answering her phone. And she hadn't answered her phone the entire previous day or
2:45.2	evening. This was unusual, and it worried Vivian. So after trying one more time to call Kathleen, Vivian and her
2:52.8	husband James got into their car to drive over to Kathleen's house at 94-32 Granby Street in the
2:59.6	Pinewell section of Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia. Kathleen was married, but Vivian knew
3:05.2	that Kathleen's husband, Steve, wasn't around. That's because
3:08.5	Steve was an active-duty lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and he was somewhere on an aircraft carrier
3:13.1	in the Indian Ocean flying fighter jets. Kathleen was living alone during his months-long deployment,
3:19.2	as were many military spouses in Norfolk, the home base for the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet,
3:24.8	at the largest naval base in the world. So when Vivian couldn't reach Kathleen, she was concerned enough to take
3:30.4	it upon herself to go over there and check on her friend. James drove the couple to the Doyle home
3:36.3	before noon. He parked outside the small house and waited in the car while Vivian approached the front door.
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