Man due in court charged with dismembering Mich. couple

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — A 39-year-old man is due in court Monday, charged with shooting a couple with whom he was staying in suburban Detroit, chopping off their heads, hands and feet and dumping their bodies in a river.

Roger Bowling faces two counts each of first-degree murder, mutilation of a body and having a firearm in a felony, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. First-degree murder carries a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole.

Bowling also is charged with tampering with evidence, the office said. His arraignment will be held in Allen Park District Court.

The dismembered bodies of Chris Hall, 42, and his 32-year-old fiancee, Danielle Greenway, were found last Tuesday in the Detroit River and a canal that feeds the river.

Separately, the missing body parts, a circular saw and a suitcase were discovered in the river, a mile-wide body of water that separates Detroit from Windsor, Ontario. Investigators have not revealed what was inside the suitcase.

Police arrested Bowling at Hall and Greenaway’s home on Thursday. Bowling did not have a lawyer Sunday, according to the prosecutor’s spokeswoman, Maria Miller.

A Greenway family friend, April Purdin, told The Associated Press last week that the man she knew only as Roger was Greenway’s ex-boyfriend and arrived about three weeks ago.

Relatives reported the couple missing Wednesday after having no contact with them for at least five days.

Neighbor Samantha Dolliver said Hall’s sister had been searching for the couple Wednesday and pounded on their door. She had no luck.

“She said she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that something was wrong,” Dolliver said.

Bowling’s father said he hasn’t spoken to his estranged son in more than 10 years.

“I really don’t know what to say except my heart goes out to the families of these people” who died, Gary Bowling, 69, of Dearborn told the Detroit Free Press. “I keep thinking it’s a dream.”