
Background: News footage of the roadworthy successful Eau Claire, Wis., wherever Ann Seidl was killed (WQOW). Inset (left): Addison Bowell (Dunn County Sheriff's Office). Inset (right): Ann Seidl (Hulke Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services).
A Wisconsin teen who pleaded blameworthy to hitting a section marathon runner portion driving drunk inactive faces different transgression charge.
Addison Bowell, 18, was charged with 3 counts of homicide and 1 hit-and-run complaint successful transportation with the decease of 54-year-old Ann Seidl. According to a transgression ailment obtained by section ABC affiliate WQOW, Bowell was drunk erstwhile she was down the instrumentality and struck Seidl successful the aboriginal greeting hours of March 29, 2025. Bowell's parent recovered Seidl connected the crushed adjacent her mailbox portion she was heading retired to enactment and called 911.
Bowell's parent told constabulary that her daughter, past 17 years old, had travel location drunk an hr earlier.
Seidl, who near down 3 sons, was an accomplished marathon runner who was retired for a tally connected the greeting she was killed.
Police said Bowell's parent told them that her teenage girl "just refuses" to halt drinking heavy and smoking marijuana, and she had attempted to bring Bowell to counseling and subject campy for the issue. When constabulary questioned Bowell astatine the home, she told them she "didn't privation to woody with this," adding that she had "like 16 underages and couldn't get different one."
Bowell told constabulary that "I drank a lot" earlier getting into her conveyance that greeting and that she did not cognize what she deed and did not care. She blew 0.114 connected a preliminary enactment trial and failed aggregate sobriety tests, constabulary said.
Police noted that a hunt of Bowell's telephone revealed videos that she took of the harm to her car, which she sent to her friends. Her friends asked Bowell what she hit, to which she responded that she deed different car "so hard."
While successful custody astatine the Dunn County Sheriff's Office, Bowell said that she realized she deed thing with her car aft proceeding a thud. She did not halt to spot what she deed and told constabulary she was connected her telephone astatine the clip and not paying attraction to the road.
Bowell asked if idiosyncratic had died arsenic a effect of her actions and they confirmed that Seidl did die. Bowell's effect was, "[W]ho walks connected the roadworthy astatine 3 successful the morning?… like… bro." She besides asked, "[S]o, americium I going to get retired oregon not?"
On Thursday, Bowell pleaded blameworthy to the 3 homicide charges, which each cited her intoxication astatine the clip of the incident. She is scheduled to spell connected proceedings for the hit-and-run complaint successful June. WQOW reported that sentencing for the 3 homicide charges volition apt beryllium scheduled aft the 4th complaint is resolved.
Bowell remains successful the Dunn County Jail without bond.

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