On February 16, 2001, in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States, 21-year-old Kandee Louise Martin[a] (October 2, 1979 – February 16, 2001) was shot to death by a high school acquaintance, who stuffed her body inside the trunk of her car and set fire to the vehicle, burning her body as a result. The killer, Marion Bowman Jr. (June 6, 1980 - January 31, 2025), was …

Jan 26, 2025 · Marion Bowman Jr. is expected to be executed on Jan. 31 after being convicted in 2002 of murdering 21-year-old Bamberg resident Kandee Martin in Orangeburg.

Jan 30, 2025 · On Feb. 16, 2001, Kandee Martin was shot once in the chest and once in the head on a dark country road, five days before her son's second birthday.

Jan 31, 2025 · Bowman, 44, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend, 21-year-old Kandee Martin, whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car. Witnesses to the execution included Bowman’s attorney, a representative of the solicitor’s office that prosecuted the case and three members of the news media.

Jan 3, 2025 · A man sentenced to die in a 2001 Dorchester County murder case and is making a final appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court to stop his execution. During the trial, prosecutors said Martin’s body was recovered from the car in a rural area along Nursery Road in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 2001.

Dec 19, 2024 · Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is on death row for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001. He is the next inmate set for execution, according to a court order signed earlier this year. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in …

Jan 3, 2025 · Bowman is on death row for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in the trunk of a car that had been burned. Bowman made his final...

Dec 21, 2024 · Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing Kandee Martin in the early morning hours of February 17, 2001. Bowman and his accomplices were planning to rob …

Dec 16, 2024 · COLUMBIA — Twenty-two years ago in Dorchester County, two cousins of Marion Bowman helped prosecutors convince a jury that he’d fatally shot Kandee Martin, 21, placed her body in the trunk of her...

Jan 31, 2025 · Marion Bowman Jr. maintains that he did not murder 21-year-old high school acquaintance Kandee Martin in February 2001, five days before her son’s second birthday.