Three-year-old's body found entombed in concrete after he was tortured to death by mother's boyfriend
A man in Kansas was convicted for the brutal murder of three-year-old Evan Brewer whose body was found encased in concrete in 2017. The jurors in the court took less than an hour to deliberate before they found 41-year-old Stephen Bodine guilty of first-degree murder on October 24. The trial lasted for six days and, throughout it, the prosecutors presented the court with multiple pieces of evidence and gruesome details that described the abuse that the toddler had to endure leading up to his eventual death on May 19, 2017.
The Wichita Eagle reported that the most shocking part of the case was the testimony that Bodine's own daughter, 23-year-old Samantha Johnson, made at the trial. She told the publication that she wanted to help "tell Evan's story". During the trial, Johnson alleged that her father used to try and drown her in the bathtub on multiple occasions when she was a child and then perform CPR to revive her. She told the paper: "I felt like a little girl again reliving it. But I had to hold it together for a three-year-old boy."