Evelyn Boswell's Mom Accused of Killing Girl, Hiding Body — and Then Lying as Remains Rotted in Playhouse

Mar. 15, 2025

Evelyn Boswell.Photo: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

A Tennessee mother is set to go on trial for the murder of her 15-month-old daughter whose remains were found sitting in a trash can on her family’s property.

Megan Boswell, now 23, is charged with felony murder in the death of her daughter,Evelyn, who was first reported missing in February 2020, PEOPLE previously reported.

Megan wasindictedon murder charges in August 2020, and has pleaded not guilty to felony murder, and one count each of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, tampering with evidence, abusing a corpse and several counts of false reporting to authorities.

TheKnoxville News-Sentinelreported that jury selection for Megan’s trial finally began on Monday, Feb. 3, five years after the case was first initiated. Opening statements began on Wednesday, Feb. 5,WJHLreported.

During the investigation, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office claimed Megan “provided detectives and agents with a number of conflicting statements.”

“We received a call from the defendant’s father talking about property — a storage shed on the property,” Fraley reportedly said. “He believed it may have been valuable for us to look in it and search, so we did respond and search that.”

“And there was a playhouse,” he continued. “Behind that, we found the body in that playhouse in the trash can.”

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During the search for Evelyn, PEOPLE previously reported that Megan gave conflicting statements during interviews with different local news outlets.

Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said at a 2020 press conference that every time authorities spoke to Evelyn’s mother, “her story changes.”

During his 2022 testimony, Fraley reportedly testified Megan eventually told investigators that Evelyn had died while co-sleeping.

source: people.com