Megan Boswell experienced violence and upheaval in her own childhood. Now, she is under arrest and her toddler, Evelyn Boswell, has been missing.
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Angela Boswell was just 16 when she gave birth to Tommy Boswell Sr.’s first son – Tommy Jr. – in 1993. A background check shows Tommy racked up an assault charge in Sullivan County a few months after the boy’s birth, but the specific details on the arrest are no longer available. A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report shows he was convicted of misdemeanor assault a year later in that case.
The couple, records show, eventually moved to Bulls Gap, Tennessee. In March 2001, Angela Boswell gave birth to the couple’s second child – Megan Boswell, Evelyn’s mother. Angela married Tommy Boswell Sr. a few months later.
By 2009, the couple was back in Sullivan County, settling the kids in a manufactured home atop a hill on a family-owned plot of land.
But there was little harmony inside those walls, court records show. In March of that year, Tommy Boswell Sr. told deputies his wife attacked him, stabbing his neck with an ink pen, and struggling with their then-14-year-old son, Tommy Jr., as he tried to rescue his dad.
Months later, records show, an angry Tommy Boswell Sr., showed up at the home of his wife’s father, David Lynn Jones. Jones would later tell authorities Tommy Boswell Sr. accused his son of theft and had been drinking when he sped away in his Chevy Camaro.
“Less than three minutes later, Jones stated the power went off at his house,” a warrant stated.
Angela Boswell was with Jones and claimed her husband called her minutes later to say he’d crashed the Camaro and ran away. She initially told authorities she was driving but – under prodding by Jones – later insisted she lied to protect her husband, court records show.
Tommy Boswell Sr. refused to return to the crash scene but eventually paid a fine for leaving the scene of an accident.
Less than two years after that incident, Tommy Boswell Sr. was angry again – this time because another man was inside his home with his wife, according to an affidavit of complaint.
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