Cadaver dogs hit on spot behind Amelia home

Cadaver dogs today have hit on a spot in the rear of the house at 17701 W. Pridesville Road in Amelia County, the former home of a Louisa County woman who is charged with hiding her boyfriend’s body in a well on their Louisa property.

Investigators say they expect to find at the Amelia home the remains of Clent Chavers, who went missing in 1994 when he was 69.

His wife, Ulisa Marie Chavers, 60, is being held without bond in Louisa County after authorities last month found the body of her boyfriend, Reginal Cody Bowles, at the bottom of a 33-foot-deep, unused well in the 100 block of Garretts Mill Road in Mineral.

Police believe Bowles’ body could have been there a year. He would have turned 55 in December.

Ulisa Chavers had been cashing her missing husband’s social security checks from the spring of 1994 until her arrest last month. She also had been cashing Bowles’ checks for a year, authorities said.

Chavers is charged in Louisa with concealing a dead body, credit-card fraud, identity theft and possession of a sawed-off rifle, which carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

Last November, a son who lives in Florida contacted authorities and expressed concern that he had not heard from his father in several months, said Maj. Donnie Lowe of the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office.

Detectives visited his home in Louisa, where they were told by Bowles’ live-in girlfriend, Chavers, that he was traveling in the Midwest on a motorcycle, Lowe said. They later found his body.