Louisa woman to plead guilty in hidden body case

Ulisa Mary Chavers is scheduled to plead guilty this morning to discarding her boyfriend’s body in a well on his property in Louisa County.

Her attorney said last week that she has confessed to authorities that she put Reginal Cody Bowles’ body in the 33-foot-deep well. The body, wrapped in sleeping bags, was found in March in some water at the bottom of the unused well. Bowles disappeared in early 2007.

The state medical examiner’s office still is trying to determine his cause of death. Chavers denies killing him, and she is not charged with his death.

She also admits she buried the body of her second husband in Amelia County in 1994 and later beheaded his corpse, according to authorities and her lawyer, Mike Caudill. She is not charged with any crimes in the Amelia case.

In July 2004, Chavers reported finding Eleanor Bowles’ body in the trailer beside the house where Chavers was living with Cody Bowles, who still was alive. She was believed to have died from natural causes.