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A man from the state of New York, who stayed in the Liberty Lodge in Loyalsock Township, had been detained for murder -related indictment for an allegedly another guest in the motel on Saturday, according to the state police.

The 46-year-old Robert B. Bohart from Erin, about 12 miles northeast of Elmira, was taken into custody in the motel and was charged with the death of the 53-year-old Shannon Bowes, who lived in a room next to Bohart.

Bowes, who lived in the motel, was found dead in his room around 10:15 a.m. On Sunday, soldier Brian Moore, a criminal investigator, said in an affidavit.

The police had been called to the motel in Motel 2021 to search for well -being in Bohharts because he “made some comments about a neighbor in the room next to his,” said the affidavit.

On the way to the motel, the soldiers received information from the Mansfield barracks that soldiers were communicated there that “BoHhart might have stabbed someone in the room next to him,” said Moore in the court document.

When soldiers arrived in his room to ask BoHhart, he seemed “to be intoxicated. He admitted that he had consumed alcoholic drinks,” said Moore.

One of the soldiers then knocked on the door of the room next to Boharts, where Bowes stayed, according to the affidavit. Bohart made a remark that the guest would not be answered, the police said.

The soldier asked him what he meant by it and replied BoHhart “He is dead,” says the court document.

Bowes had reportedly reported to child abuse, and this angry booth, said the police.

“It is obvious that he is a pedophile. He always drove his mouth and he is (now) dead,” BoHharst told the Troopers in the motel.

Bohart was taken into custody and read his Miranda warning (constitutional rights). When Bohart was placed in the back of a cruiser, a soldier noticed blood on Bohart's right shoe.

Soon after arriving at the Montoursville barracks, BoHhart took his right shoe and “the soldier” available “.

“Bohart said that the blood was” on the shoe “, wrote Moore in the court document.

Within minutes after their arrival in the motel, the soldiers received information from a friend of Boharts, who reported that he “received a call from BoHhart that he killed someone” from the police in the Liberty Lodge.

When entering the Bowes room with a master key, CPL of the state police. Michael App saw Bowes “lying on the floor at the foot of a bed, covered with blood and did not move,” explained the affidavit. A knife was recovered next to the victim, the police said. “Additional blood droplets were on the ground around the victim,” was stated in the court document.

The forensic doctor of Lycoming, Charles E. Kiessling Jr., replied and explained Bowes at the scene.

During their investigation, the police interviewed a friend of the New York State acquaintance of BoHharts in the affidavit as Elizabeth Joy Oakley-Craven on Sunday afternoon.

In a telephone conversation that she had held on Saturday evening with BoHhart, “Sound BoHhart when he started talking about what he was doing. She told her that he killed her a man who lived in the hotel room next to him.

Oakley-Craven told the police that she had lost cell service so that the conversation ended. However, the two talked on the phone again about 30 minutes later.

In the second conversation, Bohart said to Oakley-Craven that he “thought that he left the knife in the man's skull. She also remembered that Bohart told her that he had (the victim) 32 to 34 times”, was stabbed in the court document.

In text messages to the woman, Bohart said to her that he may never be free again. He wrote an SMS about a murder system and said: “I am (explosive). I know. I take my responsibility and my actions,” wrote Moore in the affidavit.

During the survey, Oakley-Craven said that she received a text from Bohart early Sunday and told her that he would turn around at 9:42 a.m. that day. Böht asked her if she called the bulls, and at 10:44 a.m. she told him that she had it, ”said the police.

It has not yet been determined when the Saturday reversal wood was fatally stabbed.

“At this point we are still working to confirm exactly when the crime was committed,” said a police spokeswoman on Monday afternoon.

Bohart was charged in front of the district judge Kirsten Gardner for a crime murder, the possession of an instrument of crime and abuse of corpses. In the criminal complaint, Moore said that Bohart was supposedly the body to lie “for a long time”. Bohart was refused and automatically placed in the Lycoming district.