PHOENIX — A Maricopa County man, Kodi Bowe, was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to 2nd Degree Murder for the death of 21-year-old Taylorlyn Nelson.
Kodi Bowe was also sentenced for Aggravated Assault. His brother, Maxx Bowe, was sentenced on April 12, 2019 to 10 years for hindering prosecution related to dumping Nelson’s body in a lake.
According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, on March 11, 2017 Kodi Bowe attacked Nelson inside their home. He struck her in the head with an object before shooting her in the head and killing her. Kodi then contacted his brother Maxx to help him try to cover up the murder. They devised a plan to take Nelson’s body to a nearby lake and after weighing down the body with rocks in sleeping bag they used a paddleboat to take her the middle of the lake where they sunk her body.
Nelson’s body was recovered more than four months later after lake levels had receded and with the help of recovery divers.