A caseworker visited Renee Bowman's Charles County home in January of this year after an anonymous call alleged child neglect on the part of the adoptive mother who is now suspected of killing two of her daughters and accused of abusing a third, ABC 7/NewsChannel 8 has learned.

The Department of Human Resources had initially said it had no contact with Renee Bowman, who is currently jailed on charges she severely abused a third adopted daughter. However, officials say they've since learned that Bowman was using a fictitious name while living in Charles County.

Bowman lived in the red-brick home in Bryans Road in between her time in Montgomery County (web|news) and Calvert County. When the caseworker visited in January, the child was observed to be in good health. Bowman attributed a bad smell inside the home to a basement water leak.

The department says it received a single, anonymous call about one child. A caseworker visited Bowman's home and noticed nothing amiss, and reported the child appeared to be in good health.

Detectives from Montgomery County visited the Charles County neighborhood Friday, going door to door, looking for clues.

"Every day, I still think about it and it's not like she was in my house, not like my daughter got attached to her kids, but it's still heartbreaking," said Lakeisha Burks, who lives down the street from Bowman's former home. Burks says another neighbor asked Bowman about the age of the two girls she'd seen in the house.

"She said she didn't have any kids," recalled Burks. "That they was her nieces. So it's kind of gut-wrenching."

Bowman, 43, has been under arrest since her bruised and starving 7-year-old adopted daughter was found walking alone in Calvert County a week ago. A neighbor found her and called 911, triggering the investigation which led to the discovery of two bodies in Bowman's freezer. She told investigators that the bodies were of two of her adopted children, authorities said. The 7-year-old told investigators the other girls had been beaten to death.

"It's very shocking to know that only four houses from you, there are two dead bodies laying in a freezer," said Carl Burns, another neighbor.

"She deserves the same treatment that she gave the two little girls," said Felicia Burns. "She deserves to be beaten and put in the freezer. Not feed her. Let her die there slowly."

Neighbors say UPS made frequent visits to Bowman's home, sometimes as many as three times in one week. She reportedly shopped frequently on eBay. One of her reported purchases: a statue of a mother and child, entitled 'A Mother's Grace.'

People who knew Renee Bowman are coming forward and providing insight into her life. New Carrolton resident Jacque Chevalier says he met Bowman about ten years ago through a grass roots organization known as "mocha moms." The group, founded by state delegate Jolene Ivey, wife of state's attorney Glenn Ivey, is a support group for black stay at home mothers. Chevalier, the only "dad" member of the southern Prince George's County chapter remembers her showing up to many functions with several different small children. Chevalier says he saw 43-year-old Bowman two weeks age during a youth football game. He says she spoke of her kids. "We had conversations about mocha moms."