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Michael Bowlinger was living a double life. One at this house in Caldwell where he moved with his girlfriend Nadia
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and her daughter and was playing pseudo stepdad. And then another life in Ogden,
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Utah, as Cheryl's husband planning a retirement together. And the truth of this shocks everyone when they find out.
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Cheryl's brother told our reporter that he thought the two of them seemed pretty
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happy. Cheryl was Mike's second or maybe third wife. I've actually seen police reports that say Cheryl was his third
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wife, but I haven't been able to find any proof of a second wife. But either way, Cheryl and Mike had been together
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for like a decade and married about 5 years. And in that time, they enjoyed plenty of hobbies together, like hiking
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and rafting. They seemed to genuinely enjoy one another. But for at least the last 2 years, Mike had been secretly
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dating Nadia. One of Nadia's relatives told us that she had no idea Mike was married. He says they met because Nadia
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was a massage therapist and Mike had been her client. And Nadia sure didn't act like their relationship was a secret
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or anything. I mean, everyone in her life knew about Mike. And Nadia had pictures of him all over her Facebook
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page. Now, cheating not totally a new concept for Mike. His first wife, Jackie, told the Idaho
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Statesman that Mike had cheated on her, too. And some believe that Cheryl had even begun to suspect it in the time
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leading up to her death. And Jackie even made allegations to that same news outlet that Mike had been physically
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abusive toward her. But still, he doesn't have much of a criminal history to speak of. So, how does someone go
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from affair to murdering three people, one of whom isn't even one of the women you're tangled up with? One of them is a
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child. I don't know if anyone but Michael will know exactly what happened in that house or in that shed back in
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June of 2017, but investigators have a pretty good theory of what happened.