The Faceless Frozen Body in the Ditch: The Ilene Gowan Story

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

An adult female body is found outside of Council Bluffs city limits. The body was found with bruises all over her body, a large laceration on her head, her body was found frozen to the ground. Also, her face is missing. The body is of a woman who has been missing for 11 days, 60-year-old Ilene Gowan. Investigators will use everything at their disposal to determine how the grandmother ended up dead in a ditch without her face, and who is responsible for her death.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they breakdown a case that includes forensics of a frozen body as well as the latest video surveillance tools that creates a timeline that builds a map leading right to the killer.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:06 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about scene of crime

00:02:42 Victim 60-year-old woman, without a face

00:04:00 Talk about victim and suspect relationship

00:06:22 Brammer does not report girlfriend missing

00:07:44 Talk about remains being discarded like trash

00:09:48 Discussion about alcohol and relationships

00:11:21 Victim is missing for 11 days

00:12:49 Talk about remains still frozen at autopsy

00:16:46 Discussion of weather on decomposition

00:18:32 Talk about arriving to scene of crime

00:22:54 Discussion about Pathologist in the field

00:24:01 Victim face is missing

00:27:19 Timeline: victim last seen on 13, reported missing on 15th

00:30:37 Discussion of Post-Mortem and Anti-Mortem

00:31:36 Video evidence of Brammer in truck with victim

00:33:34 Discussion of victim cause of death

00:34:39 Talk about wounds

00:37:10 Discussion about Dr. Michael Baden brought in for second opinion

00:38:50 Brammer deposits $1,500 in his bank account day Ilene is reported missing

00:39:46 Discussion about face missing due to animal life

00:41:46 Brammer has truck crushed and shredded

00:42:08 Brammer was found guilty of second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and second-degree theft.

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0:49.0	Some things in life we just accept as part of the scenery. We go about our everyday lives. We don't
0:58.0	expect to see anything that
1:05.0	I think ditches are that way.
1:10.0	How many of us actually sit around and think about a ditch?
1:15.0	You know, I guess at some point in time we've considered it, what their purpose is.
1:19.6	Why is it that they run alongside of roads?
1:23.7	What do they accomplish by being there?
1:26.7	It seems as though that some people put a lot of work into them.
1:30.4	You know, they have to lay culverts down and adjust the flow in them try to keep
1:35.6	them clear and then other people just kind of abandon them they'll be overgrown
1:41.1	but ditches I would argue, they cover our nation. They're everywhere, and we never give them a second thought.
2:05.0	But just for a moment, can you imagine going out with your granddaddy in the cold? Maybe you've waited on this day, and y'all are going to hunt.
2:10.0	And during the course of this hunt, you happen to look down into a ditch that maybe you have never
2:19.7	paid any attention to before. And there lying in a ditch is a 60 year old woman whose name is Eileen.
2:38.5	Her body is frozen,
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