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Daniel LaPlante was born on May 15, 1970, in Townsend, Massachusetts, and he allegedly suffered traumatic s3xual and psychological 4buse during his childhood at the hands of his father and then as a teen at the hands of his psychiatrist.
At 15, he broke into Townsend homes during the evenings, stole occupants’ valuables, and then he graduated to mind games. LaPlante began leaving things behind and moving things around in his neighbors’ houses to scare them.
In 1986, his mind games turned to pure terror when he became obsessed with 15-year-old Tina Bowen. They went on a date, but it didnt work out. That was that, you’d think..
Over the course of several weeks in late Fall 1986, Daniel LaPlante gained entry to the Bowen home at 93 Lawrence Street, in Pepperell, near Townsend. From a small crawl space no wider than six inches, he initiated psychological torment on the family. After watching Tina and her sister try to contact their recently deceased mother on a ouija board, LaPlante began impersonating a ghost. He even wrote messages on the walls with ketchup and a kn1fe was found pinning a family photograph to the wall.
Though Frank Bowen believed his daughters were messing with each other, he soon learned the truth was far worse. On Dec. 8, 1986, the girls returned home to find someone had used their toilet. After a search by Frank Bowen, LaPlante was discovered in a wardrobe. LaPlante hustled them into a bedroom before disappearing somewhere in the house. Tina Bowen escaped through a window and contacted police, who found LaPlante two days later in the cellar of the house.
Hiding in a triangular space in a corner, bounded on two sides by the concrete foundation and an inner wall, LaPlante had clearly been living there for weeks.
Following his arrest at the Bowen home, LaPlante was held in a juvenile facility until October 1987 when his mother remortgaged her house ensuring his $10,000 bail. Two months later, he committed
his worst crime yet….
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