A South Dakota man was charged with murder for allegedly killing his mother and then beheading her, according to prosecutors.

Bowen Fladland, 34, was charged with first-degree murder as well as second-degree murder in the death of Marlene Fladland, his mother.

‘It is fairly common for us to see, in a criminal activity, when somebody begins a pathway of violence, how it escalates.’

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley told KXLG-TV that the victim’s body was discovered at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday at their residence on 601 N. Cloud St. in the city of Clark.

Court documents said that Bowen admitted to kneeling on his mother’s neck until she died. He then allegedly cut off her head with a tool.

The victim’s body was found in the front yard of the residence.

KELO-TV reported that Bowen had a long criminal history including assault. In a prior incident, court documents said that the son had choked his mother and that she had become lightheaded during the assault. He also threatened to kill her while holding two butter knives, according to police.

He was convicted of aggravated assault in that case but was given a suspended sentence of 10 years.

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“It is fairly common for us to see, in a criminal activity, when somebody begins a pathway of violence, how it escalates. Which is why I feel it’s so important that these issues are addressed early on in a criminal history,” said Jackley. “We need to make sure we do everything to make sure we keep the public safe.”

Jackley said the investigation is ongoing and that an autopsy will be conducted.

Bowen is being held at the Codington County jail in Watertown.

Clark is a small city of just over 1,000 residents located in the northeastern part of South Dakota.

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Glenn Beck isn’t one to make knee-jerk accusations or rush to judgment. He gives people the benefit of the doubt until they’ve proven they don’t deserve it.

And that’s exactly what Attorney General Pam Bondi has done, in his opinion. “I want Pam Bondi fired,” Glenn says frankly.

The memo released by the Department of Justice and the FBI claiming Epstein’s client list doesn’t exist was enough for many to call for her resignation. However, the final straw for Glenn was the DOJ’s release of prison cell surveillance footage from the night Jeffery Epstein supposedly committed suicide that includes a one-minute gap.

“Do you release a tape and then let the public find out for themselves that there’s an edit in the tape?” asks Glenn, adding that even if we were to give the DOJ “every benefit of the doubt” and assume that the time gap is legitimately “a digital jump in the tape,” it still speaks of incredible incompetence on the part of the department and Pam Bondi. “Do you not put an intern on it just to say, ‘Watch the clock and make sure there’s no jumps or edit in the tape because we know 300 million people are going to be watching it’?”

Co-host Stu Burguiere agrees: “It would be very easy to edit in a minute of footage” or at least release the video with a caveat noting that there is an “error.”

“Correct,” says Glenn. “This is incompetence.”

But the “jump in the tape” isn’t the only evidence of incompetence. Glenn’s head writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill, found something else in the tape: “This camera doesn’t even have eyes on Epstein’s cell at all.”

Jason shares the following graphic, which shows the location of Epstein’s cell in relation to the camera’s vantage point (yellow).

“I’ve spent years and years and years looking at surveillance and security camera footage, as you know, in my previous job,” says Jason. “I’ve never seen an over-one-minute jump right at a time that would be very, very, I don’t know, just convenient.”

“Sixty seconds would be perfect for if you wanted to conceal the fact that someone walked across that area,” he adds.

However, someone trying to reach Epstein’s cell might not have even needed to enter the camera’s frame at all. “The camera doesn’t actually show 100% of the potential paths to get there,” says Stu.

In other words, if Epstein was indeed killed, his murderer could have reached his door undetected while the camera was rolling.

Glenn can only come to one conclusion: “Pam Bondi needs to be fired.”

To hear more, watch the clip above.

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