SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — April Bowden went missing on Wednesday and two days later was found dead in Bountiful, Utah. Her cousin received the news at 1:09 p.m.
“It’s the kind of news you don’t forget,” Bowden’s cousin Sharon Neilson said. “You don’t want to hear that kind of news.”
Police are investigating Bowden’s death as suspicious , noting that she left the house without her phone, ID or wallet. Her family does not know much else about the deadly incident.
Neilson said the family went searching for her as soon as they heard the news, not knowing where to look. She said it was “not within her character to have even walked away from the house.”
“It’s awful. It’s awful not knowing if someone did this to her,” Neilson, said.
Neilson said Bowden was 47 years old and had two young grandchildren who now “will never know their grandma.” Bowden’s husband also died within the previous year.
“I want people to know that she was a wonderful mom, she was a wonderful grandmother,” Neilson said. “She was important, she was very important. And for her life to be cut short so quickly and for reasons that I don’t have any idea.”