Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Killer Mom Slammed by Judge for Toddler Daughter's Murder

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

Megan Boswell was found guilty in February of murdering her 15-month-old daughter, Evelyn. The toddler’s disappearance led to a national search in early 2020 after Megan’s father reported her missing. Megan lied to investigators several times throughout police interviews but maintains her innocence and says she didn’t get a fair trial. Law&Crime’s Angenette Levy goes through the sentencing hearing in this episode of Crime Fix.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can submit a claim in 8 clicks or less without having to leave your couch. To start your claim, visit: https://www.forthepeople.com/CrimeFixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. I would have never hurt my baby and I did not kill everyone. A mother convicted of murdering her young daughter is defiant until the very end and refuses to take responsibility for the murder at her sentencing. I would just like to say that the state of Tennessee treated me very unfair during this whole investigation. and that I had a fair trial and impartial jury, I would have been acquitted of the murder charges. I take you through the sentencing of Megan Boswell for the murder of baby Evelyn. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Janette Levy.

24-year-old Megan Boswell will never be released from prison. Five years after the murder of her daughter Evelyn, Megan Boswell has learned her punishment for killing her daughter in February of 2020. Boswell was sentenced to life in prison plus 33 years for all 20 counts that she faced, including abuse of a corpse for placing Evelyn's body into a trash can in a playhouse on property that was owned by her father, Tommy Boswell. Stay tuned for the moment when Judge Goodwin handed down the sentence in court. The disappearance of Evelyn Boswell and later her murder was a case that absolutely stunned the community and it gained national attention after an Amber Alert was issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Sullivan County deputies,

the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the FBI all teamed up for a massive search for 15-month-old Evelyn in February of 2020. But Evelyn hadn't been seen for nearly two months. It became apparent almost immediately that Megan Boswell couldn't keep her story. straight about where her daughter was and the last time she had seen her. The following month in March of 2020, Megan Boswell was charged with false reporting and Little Evelyn's body was found in a trash can in a playhouse on her dad's property. In the week-long trial, jurors actually got to see drone footage of that playhouse, as Tommy Boswell testified. He told jurors that he saw Megan at Christmas time in December of 2019 and Evelyn wasn't with her. It was actually Tommy Boswell.

as well as call to authorities that launched the missing person's search for Evelyn. The jurors deliberated for just four and a half hours before returning its verdicts. In count two, a jury of your peers having found you guilty of first-degree murder and the perpetration of a felony. It's a judgment of this court you are guilty. And count three, a jury of your peers having found you guilty, a first-degree murder and the perpetration of a felony. It's a judgment of this court you are guilty. You count

for a judgment of your peers having found you guilty of aggravated child abuse. It's a judgment of the court you are guilty. Now following the verdict, her lawyers asked that Megan Boswell one day be eligible for parole. Ladies and gentlemen, although I may not agree with your verdict,

I respect your verdict, I respect to you. I thank you for your time. I have one more thing to ask. You have to make a decision now and that decision is it's a it's going to mean the difference if you sentence Megan Boswell to life and prison she'll be released when she is probably 69 years old it'll be eight she's been in jail she you probably realize she has been in jail since she was 18 years ago she went to jail February the 25th of 2020 and she hasn't been released

So with that said, if you give her a life sentence, it would be 51 years. That's what I'm asking me to do. If you give her a life without sentence, she will never be released for prison. That's the difference. So there's a difference between her being released it, but I believe it would be 69, 70 years old, or never being released. The jury wasn't out long. The district attorney had wanted a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, but the jury showed Megan Boswell some mercy and great.

All right. Ms. Boswell, in count one, the jury of your peers, having sent your punishment, you'll be sentenced to life imprisonment. In count two, you'll be sentenced to life imprisonment. There's a reason crime fix is one of the top-ranked shows on YouTube right now, just like there's a reason why Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury law firm. They're a firm with more than a thousand attorneys, and that's because they win a lot. Morgan and Morgan has recovered more than $25 billion. for more than 500,000 clients. In the last few months, a client in Florida received $12 million after the insurance company

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Boswell was convicted earlier this year. For just four of the counts of her indictment, the judge had discretion to add consecutive sentences after the life in prison term because of the brutality of the crime. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case, so the maximum conviction for Boswell is life in prison. At the formal sentencing hearing, prosecutors presented witnesses to bolster their argument for an enhanced sentence on the remaining charges. One of the witnesses included former Sullivan County Sheriff's Deputy Jeff Cassidy. Would you have found, Evelyn, that the defendant had told the truth on this one. The director of his speculation. sustained

yet you can be to be phrased it's too broad right now If you had known that Evelyn was dead on day one, would that have changed the way you conducted your investigation? Absolutely. Okay. Would all of these resources have been used?

No, ma'am. Were you aware of community involvement during the time of this investigation? The 18 days of the investigation? Yeah, extremely. They really provided us a lot of additional resources. was that not criminal justice related, just like they brought us food to the office so we could, you know, eat and still work. And they just, they all pulled together during that time and just showed tremendous outpouring support for our entire agency. And, you know, across the nation,

really, this was a national recognized case. So they, the people around here in the community, they started Evelyn's army, and they provided food force daily. After the witnesses, Boswell had the opportunity to get on the stand where she insisted that she was innocent. I would just like to say that the state of Tennessee treated me very unfair during this whole investigation. And that I had a fair trial and impartial jury, I would have been acquitted of the murder charges. I would have never hurt my baby and I did not kill everyone. After Boswell spoke, Prosecutor William Harper asked the judge for the maximum sentence by arguing some of the enhancing, factors in the case.

But the trust that Ms. Boswell betrayed upon her daughter was just so callous. She chose herself repeatedly time and time again over her child. All deaths are horrible, but for a small child to die in the way that Evelyn died, to show such extreme callousness. And those photographs show you. I mean, she was discarded like a piece of common garbage. You know, Detective, Lieutenant Price testified too. You know, it looks like the body has been compressed,

pushed down in the trash can so we could fit more trash, more garbage on top of her child. but probably the most hurtful and severe part of this whole and painful part of this is the fact that all that occurred at the hands of the one person that she should have been able

to rely upon and trust to protect her her own mother but Megan didn't do that Megan repeatedly chose Megan Megan chose her life. Megan chose living in the big house out by the lake.

Megan chose going to the movies. She chose going to blowing rock, going to Gatlinburg, again and again and again over her own daughter. The second finding this court has to make is that it was necessary to that consecutive sentencing was necessary to protect the public from further crimes. and provided the court, so as Mr. Scott, with the case of Stapley-Taylor, which was a case in which a small child had been beaten to death, and then the mother basically delayed and reporting, calling 911, which eventually resulted in the child dying because she didn't receive any medical attention. And the court in that case found that the dangerous offender,

classification was satisfied because the defendant had demonstrated extreme callousness towards the health and welfare of the victim and the results were fatal. Well, Judge, really, it does not get any more callous, any more callous in what the defendant did in this case. You know, she turned her back, she turned her life, she turned her trust away from her own child. Evelyn got in the way and the life Megan Boswell wanted to live.

And so she eliminated that problem. It truly is not getting more callous than that. So the statement submit that both those factors are met and that the court should impose consecutive sentencing. Then it was time for Megan Boswell's attorney to speak on her behalf and to fight for her. But I think in fairness and the deference of that drew, we have to give some respect with what determination man made.

And they were aware of all the other charges, obviously they heard the guilt phase on the person convicted of her. So I think that is a good. She's eligible for probation on all that in charge. The court has to make the termination whether or not those sentences should be suspended or served. The court has to make determinations whether if they are served, how they're served, but consecutive or concurrent. As it relates to the dangerous offender who society has to be protected from, I think the case law is quite clear. If not every person convicted of a first

degree murder and another felony is going to follow them. that category. Normally in a lot of the cases you see you see multiple victims multiple acts here all those things kind of go together and I guess the next the other thing we have to talk about is what counts merged together in it's simple I would suggest before that the murder counts merged together for one count that the child abuse and child neglect count should murder. The judge took a moment to speak directly to Megan Boswell before sentencing her.

This defendant had absolutely no hesitation when she killed her dog. And in hearing the proof during trial of how, she continued to live her life and from hearing the proof circumstantially as to why she might have done this deed because this new boyfriend is the life that she wanted to grasp on to. It's like the state said the house on the lake. A lifestyle that she wanted for herself. The fact that Evelyn was it just in the way.

and looking at all the video that we saw during the trial this court never once saw remorse never once saw empathy out of the defendant so she is a dangerous offender The circumstances surrounding the commission of this offense are absolutely aggravated.

This baby couldn't care for herself. This baby had the only life this baby knew The only way this baby could get through a day was through her mind. And Mr. Scott asked the question during his argument, which was the right question to ask. Is Megan Boswell at 69 years of age coming out of prison a risk to society? And the only conclusion that I can come to after hearing the proof in this case

seeing the evidence in this case seeing how utterly unconcerned with the fact that she took the life of a 15-month-old child, her own child. The court has to answer that question, yes. That society does need to be protected

from the evil that lurks in her heart. Now let's hear specific. regarding the sentence breakdown by the judge. The 25-year sentence for the merging counts of aggravated child abuse and neglect will be consecutive to the life sentence. The six-year sentence for tampering with evidence and the four-year sentence, the false report, will be concurrent with each other

but consecutive to the 25 years and the two-year sentences for the abuse of the corpse and count 19 and count 20 will be concurrent with each other but consecutive to the six years So it counts

4 through 20 that will be a 33-year sentence as a range 1 standard defender consecutive to her life sentence The court has considered probation She's not eligible for probation on the Class 8 felonies

That 25 years has to be served by statute the court has considered probation on the additional eight years and finds that a grant of probation would depreciate the seriousness of this case, giving the facts of this case, given the fact that she has shown no remorse, she has shown no empathy towards this child, her child, and probation in those counts will be done. Boswell's attorney, Gene Scott, plans to appeal the sentence and he will also file a motion for a new trial after he gets a transcript from that trial. Until then, Boswell will remain in custody at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville.

And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.