Kansas man Stephen Bodine guilty of murdering Evan Brewer, 3, then encasing body in concrete
- Alleged killer and the boy’s mother are both believed to have abused the boy in the month leading up to his death
- Cache of 16,000 photos and video files shot by the couple’s home surveillance system reportedly included images of the boy naked and chained in the basement
A Kansas man was convicted of first-degree murder on Wednesday in the killing of a three-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete in the laundry room of his home four months after his death.
Stephen Bodine, 41, of Wichita, was accused in the May 2017 death of Evan Brewer.
Prosecutors called dozens of witnesses and presented more than 550 pieces of evidence, including parts of the concrete tomb found in the Wichita rental home where the boy had lived with his mother, Miranda Miller, and Bodine. Miller is also charged with murder in her son’s death.
Evan had been subject to a months-long custody battle and authorities had been alerted at least six times that he was being abused.
Much of the evidence at trial came from a cache of 16,000 photos and video files shot by the couple’s home surveillance system, including images of Evan naked and chained up in the basement. In one video, Bodine and Miller are heard chastising Evan over the course of several hours, less than two months before he was killed.
