NBC Philadelphia
April 9, 2015
A man was arrested and charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a shallow grave in a yard in Philadelphia’s Frankford section last month.
Jeffrey Bowen, 30, is accused of killing 39-year-old Kelly Hepft and then burying her body.
On March 24 at 11:36 a.m., 15th district police officers were flagged down by a man who reported a possible body in a rear yard on 4700 Frankford Avenue.
When the officers went to the yard they found a human foot buried in soil. The Philadelphia Crime Scene Unit responded and recovered Hepft’s body, which investigators say was wrapped in plastic bags.
A man, who was standing near the grave when officers arrived, took off running when police questioned him, sources told NBC10. Police used a taser to subdue the man, according to witnesses and the man was taken into custody but not charged at that time.
Neighbors told NBC10 the man was Hepft’s boyfriend.