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in may 1994 the body of 72 year old world war ii veteran milton bradley was discovered on a golf course in savannah
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georgia he'd been savagely murdered by a mysterious stranger who'd vanished
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without a trace at the time nobody could tell me that they had a murder with similar
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circumstances or a suspect matching the mystery man or mystery person the drifter who showed up
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in savannah was last seen with bradley and was now gone the killer was gary ray bowles a 32 year
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old transient with an apparent hatred of gay men he would go on to claim two more
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victims after the murder of milton bradley anybody who came onto bowles's radar
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anybody who formed part of his life who became a significant individual was somebody who was in danger from him
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because he's somebody who has no respect for other people he doesn't see other
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people's lives as valuable after slaying more victims with impunity up and down the i-95 highway bowles was
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finally apprehended after killing jacksonville beach resident jay hinton by brutally caving in his skull with a
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cinder block he targeted perfectly innocent perfectly upright perfectly reasonable men he's ruthless
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wicked depraved and relentless gary ray bowles the i-95 killer had run out of road and been discovered as one
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of the world's most evil killers [Music] [Music] in november 1994 32 year old gary ray
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bowles confessed his vicious killing spree to detectives over the previous eight months bowles
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had taken the lives of six men across three states most of his murders had happened just off interstate 95 on the
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east coast of the us one of the investigators who helped to identify bulls as a serial killer was
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rookie detective john best what are the chances your first murder you're going to get a guy that kills six
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men up and down the east coast of the united states becomes the 10 most wanted fugitive and
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then you get to interview him and he gets put to death as a result of these crimes and
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here we are 27 years later and we're still talking about gary ray bowles so it
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stays in your head bowls was finally captured after the murder of jay hinton in jacksonville
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beach florida detective joe collins spent days speaking with the killer after a stunning confession in which bowles
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admitted to killing all six of his victims initially when you get close to somebody and you're talking you
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have a rapport going and you want to keep that going you think you know this isn't a bad guy
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you know i guess he screwed up a little bit or something i don't know but we
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were talking like two guys drinking a beer on the beach or something until i pulled out the photographs of my
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victim and all that went away bowles left a trail of blood and destruction wherever he went
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every single crime scene was was overkill it's not like one shot one stab wound i
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just think that that rage and when you throw in some alcohol and drugs that that created a monster
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this killer's story begins in clifton forge virginia gary ray bowles was born on the 25th of
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january 1962. he was raised by his mother and a succession of different father figures
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in rupert west virginia bowles never knew his real father because he died before bowles was born so this was
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something that had a significant impact on his life as it does on on many children in this situation and there are
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lots of kids whose fathers die before they're born this isn't a prescription
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for serial murder but it's what his father was replaced with which is the issue in this case two of bowles's
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stepfathers violently abused the youngster while his mother reportedly refused to step in and help her son
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these men were not ideal stepfathers by any stretch of the imagination these were men who abused bowls he was
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somebody who never felt particularly safe or secure or childlike in his own home home was a dangerous place for him
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at the age of 10 years old he started to engage in substance abuse at the time he was
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sniffing glue snorting whatever he can like paint to get high just in this frantic effort to escape the pain
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that was inflicted upon him by his stepfathers as he matured into a teenager bulls
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finally snapped and the boy then only 13 really hit back at the abusive stepfather in fact he hit him with a
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rock very hard in an effort to stop him he was fed up with the fact that his mother was being abused his brother was
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being abused and he was being abused and he wanted to put a stop to it i think this is something that is a very
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pivotal moment for him he has been in this household where violence is normal violence is every day violence is a way
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of exerting your power and your control over others and bowles at this point has
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had enough and i think he probably feels that he has won at this particular point
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he has had some kind of victory over his abuser and now he comes to equate violence with power
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his stepfather survived the attack but the incident led to balls leaving home while still in his early teens
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drifting up and down the country he found a dubious way to make money what gary told me was he found it easy
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to say friends he was hitchhiking a ride one particular incident that he told me
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um the man gave him a ride and then offered him money for sex [Music] on the one hand he's found a solution to
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some of his problems but on the other hand i think this creates a whole new problem in itself because in doing this
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he's fueling feelings of shame and and feelings of regret essentially and all
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violence is rooted in shame so this is not a good combination in 1982 the 20 year old was arrested for
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a violent attack on his girlfriend which left her physically scarred for life he blamed alcohol he blamed drug use
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he only claimed to remember parts of the assault but it was a horrible attack to
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quote the detective in a probation or sentencing hearing she said she had seen better looking bodies in the morgue
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bowles served 18 months for the assault but when he was released in 1983 the 21 year old soon settled down with a new
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girlfriend in fact she gets pregnant by bowls and they seem to have what is the beginnings of maybe
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a family life but then she makes a discovery bowles is still working as a male sex worker he's still
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prostituting himself and she can't stand that lifestyle she rejects it utterly she calls him a
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hustler and she then aborts the child their child bowles would later claim that this was the trigger that led him
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to target a specific type of victim he did mention to me that and i'll quote it he said they killed my
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baby they meaning homosexuals killed his baby according to bulls that put him in a
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vicious circle where he had to go out and hustle and meet these gay men and get their money and he became enraged at
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the gay men for that it was an anger that led to a succession of misdemeanors that would land bowls in
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and out of prison for the next decade in march 1994 gary ray bowles was at the home of 59 year old john roberts in
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daytona beach florida the circumstances surrounding their friendship are not known but years later
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the killer confessed that he and roberts had got into an argument over a woman whom bowles had been spending time with
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gary was on the phone and john roberts made a derogatory remark or said you know
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you don't need to be talking to that [ __ ] something very nasty and it really upset gary
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so gary said uh john roberts was sitting on the couch gary picked up a lamp and bashed him over the head
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then i think believe he told me that he strangled him and he stuffed the rag or something
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in his mouth and then he fled the scene from there in an apparent fit of rage 32 year old
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gary ray bowles had killed for the very first time this is an important murder because
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bowles didn't get caught for it and i think he learns from this that actually
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murder is something that you can get away with and and i i think that after this murder
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he's he's reliving it he's thinking about it he's enjoying those feelings of
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power that it gave him but it's not long before he wants to experience those
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feelings again gary ray bowles now had a taste for murder john roberts was the first but he
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would not be the last victim on bowles's chaotic killing spree in just over nine
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weeks time another four men would be dead in march 1994 32 year old drifter gaddy
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ray bowles had taken the life of another man in daytona beach florida john roberts had been bludgeoned and
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then strangled to death in his own home detectives searching for the killer had a major breakthrough early on
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the daytona beach police found a piece of probation or parole paperwork that belonged to gary ray bowles at the
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scene of the murder [Music] but gary ray bowles is no longer in daytona beach he's gone
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and what's more he starts another tray which is to become part of his signature he changes his name
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going by an unknown alias bowles made his way to silver spring maryland just a month after the attack on john roberts
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bowles would later confess to the murder of 39 year old david jarman after meeting him on a night out in the dupont
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circle region of washington dc gary told me that mr jarmon was doing something he didn't like and he told him
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to stop mr jarvan did not stop and gary got mad and strangled him and wrapped him up with bed sheets
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turned the ac down real low so it'd be cold in there and he left just as he'd forced something into the
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mouth of his first victim john roberts balls did the same to david jarman john is beaten
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strangled but this time there's a little additional twist bowles stuffs a sex toy into his
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victim's mouth when he leaves him this murder is interesting because he's
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stuffed the sex toy in this this man's mouth this is something that he's he's
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doing in a performative way he's wanting to humiliate his victim david jarman had last been seen leaving
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a bar on p street with an unknown man the murder stunned the local residents it sends shockwaves through the
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community because you just didn't hear of such things back then and it really hit home in the gay
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community because it was dupont circle was known to be a popular hangout for gay people and they had many
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bars and restaurants that many like to frequent because it was just the cool place to go
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investigators had no idea that the murders of david jarman and john roberts were linked the two crime scenes were
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over 700 miles apart which meant that two different police departments were working on the cases
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it's not as if this is a master criminal on the contrary but what is clever enough to do is to cross
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county lines thereby evading the local police department and you have to remember that this point
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there is no national database bulls would soon strike again just three weeks after the murder of david jarman
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he was in yet another state savannah georgia the home of 72 year old local hero milton bradley
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milton bradley was a world war ii veteran he suffered a brain injury in world war ii
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was totally disabled and got along from with a stipend from his family that he got daily
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and uh he's a very very nice kind gentle man and pretty much stayed in the downtown
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savannah area which was his footprint he didn't leave that area on the 5th of may 1994
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milton bradley's body was found on a nearby golf course he'd become victim number three of gary
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ray bowles there were pieces of a broken toilet the leaves and dirt around bradley's body
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were in disarray and there were scrapes in the back of a maintenance shed that indicated somebody had been forced
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against it or that a struggle violent struggle had taken place there was a severe amount of
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trauma to bradley's face and neck and head and the strangest thing about it was there were
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dirt and leaves protruding from bradley's mouth just like david jarman milton bradley
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had last been seen in a local bar with a mysterious out of towner we began receiving information
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myself and my partner at the time detective deborah robinson from the gay community that bradley had been seen
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with a drifter who had come into town who was telling different stories giving different stories about where he was
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from how he got to savannah and giving different names he was identified as james mike or mark
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the killer's palm prince was taken at the crime scene but detectives had no idea who it belonged to
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they were unaware that a serial killer was on the loose working up and down the 1900 mile long i-95 highway so you've
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now had three murders within the space of two months bowles is unrepentant and absolutely
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determined to go on killing bowls stayed in georgia to claim his next victim although it was a detour
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from his usual route along the i-95 his mo remained the same he crossed paths with 47 year old
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alvison carter in atlanta on the 13th of may he met mr carter in a gay bar and i guess mr carter invited gary over
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to his apartment once he was over there they were drinking and then they engaged into
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sex uh mr carter according to gary was very aggressive in his sexual behavior and gary was
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telling him to quit doing what he was doing he didn't like it gary went downstairs
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told the carter that he went down there to get some more liquor he picked up a knife
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went back upstairs and killed him by stabbing him this case was a very unique case when it comes to bowles's
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crime because alverson carter was killed via stab wounds this was the first of his and
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only of his murders where there was stabbing involved the signs of a violent struggle
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furniture broken and in disarray allerson carter's mouth was stuffed with a towel
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as the investigation into albus and carter's murder began bowles was already
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in a different state back in florida and on the i-95 he surfaced just north of jacksonville in nassau county where he
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soon befriended 37 year old al morris i was a very fun person he liked to have a good time
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he was business but he liked to party on the weekends like to furnish people with food and drinks
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he liked to have a good time jackie remembers the first time he met al's new friend
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they were supposed to come to my store and they actually arrived a little earlier and come over to my house and
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that's when i first met gary which al introduced me to him as joey pearson and he was
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standing there with his hands in his pockets already wearing al's clothes and i thought that kind of struck me
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kind of odd despite his initial concern jackie soon warmed to the mysterious stranger
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his personality traits to start out was very friendly he was kind of uh outgoing had a good
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little sense of humor about him and he could he could wedge his way right into a crowd real easy
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he invaded his way into their lives he became quotes a friend they didn't suspect him they didn't
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think that this man who was buddying up to them could possibly be dangerous and that was
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part of bowles's mo that he wasn't uh an evil figure dressed in a cloak he was
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just this guy who seemed harmless enough paul stayed with al morris for a few days with the promise of doing some jobs
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to help him out he was supposed to be doing some work around al's house that needed to be done
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he needed some work done in the kitchen and he needed some work done on his porch he didn't do any of the work at
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all he laid around all day drinking and smoking this is him appearing to be somebody who
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is helpful and who is giving and who is going to to make the victim's life easier so it's that getting inside the
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home which is the important thing for me he is accessing their their private zone
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their safe space and then he's violating that in the worst possible way on one occasion jackie had to break up a
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fight between owl and bulls in the parking lot of a bar he had no idea it would be the last time
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he'd see his friend alive and the next morning i got up and i called al and he was a busy signal on
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his phone and i called him until i had to go to town and then when i come back from town i
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called al about three more times and it was a busy signal and i said oh i've
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just i guess got to lay down for a little bit and take a nap so i went over to the house and i laid
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down and just as soon as i did they come knocking at the door saying al's been
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murdered al's been murdered jackie immediately rushed over to owl's trailer park home
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there was a crowd of people in the yard the trailer door was open there was a bloody handprint on the door and
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i saw his mother and she said that she had went in there and found him in on the kitchen floor and it looked like he
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had just come out of the shower and he had a towel around his neck and she just would never forget his eyes and
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there was blood all over the living room where al had tried to find the front door of the trailer to get out but gary
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was torturing him all the way [Music] until he died just six days after arriving in town
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bowles had killed for the fifth time he would eventually confess to al morris's murder and the fight that led
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up to it he told me about that one al morris he wasn't just a pushover and gary thought he was
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and they got in an argument because they were out and al saw him making uh motions towards someone else
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and when they got back to the trailer al's trailer they were drinking and al brought it up and they got into a
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fight and according to gary he said that guy was whipping my ass i couldn't get him off of me
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and the only way he could get him off of him is there was a shotgun nearby and gary said he picked up the shotgun
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and shot out he said that was the only way i'd get him off of him in less than 10 weeks gary ray bowles
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had taken the lives of five men detectives from five different police departments were trying to solve their
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individual cases it would take some extraordinary detective work to finally bring bowls to
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justice but not before he would kill for a sixth time in may 1994 gary ray bowles had killed
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for a fifth time bowles had murdered al morris after winning his trust and attacking him in
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his nassau county home he feeds off other people's kindness and other people's
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willingness to to welcome someone into their home and this gives him immense feelings of power and i think the home
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is this constant theme that keeps coming up with him so the home is somewhere where he never felt safe the home was
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somewhere where he was abused he was violated and now he's going into other people's homes he's making his way into
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other people's lives and he's violating them five killings in a matter of weeks
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it's as if he's absolutely on an adrenaline rush a fueled by no doubt certain amount of
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alcohol but fueled also no question by a genuine bloodlust he's unrepentant unremorseful
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but by now some of the police departments are beginning to see there might be a pattern here
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detective john best who is investigating the murder of milton bradley and savannah georgia had sent out a request
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to neighboring police departments to see if they had any similar homicides and he soon got a response from
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investigators in nassau county who were looking into al morris's murder two murders of gay men
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involving a transient or a drifter who was a suspect these murders occur right off the i-95
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corridor these crime scenes are eerily similar even though one is outside one is inside
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my crime scene with a milton bradley pockets are turned inside out nassau county crime scene with al morris
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pockets turned inside out so i feel at this point the two are linked john showed a composite sketch of the
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suspect to witnesses who'd seen him with milton bradley on the night of his murder
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one of them claimed he'd been to a convenience store with bowls the previous day
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armed with security cam footage from the store john approached jackie strickland
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who'd met the killer before his attack on al morris so i watched the videotape
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for and from that convenience store for several minutes and then the door opened and then two
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guys come in and one guy went to the counter and the other guy was joey who he told me he was i
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recognized him immediately when he come in the store the other guy went and bought a pack of
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but joey is sitting there with a woman who has a baby on her hip and he's playing with her little baby girl
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uh there and talking about maybe how cute the baby is and something and this guy
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has just murdered all these people and has no conscience whatsoever and that's when i said that's him that's
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what he looks like that's your guy right there so now we have one suspect linked to two murders in two
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different states with the same circumstances same violent crime scenes pockets turned inside out of both so
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now we have a definitive link two murders two states same suspect and then we spoke to the the supervisory agent in
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charge harold jones and i never forget harold jones looking at me and saying johnny i think you got a serial killer
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on your hands fbi agent harold jones sent a request out to see if there were any more
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potential victims that could be linked to the killer and he soon got a hit another murder
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case in florida that had happened back in march the daytona beach police responded to
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special agent jones teletype and gave him the name of a suspect in the murder of john harder hardy roberts the name
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they gave was gary ray bowles [Music] finally investigators had a name gary ray balls had a long list of felonies
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meaning his fingerprints were on file from a previous arrest these proved to be a match with the
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prince found at the milton bradley crime scene so now we have physical evidence we have a palm print at the scene we
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have video evidence of bulls being in savannah with a witness that day i secured a murder warrant for gary bowles
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bowles was added to the fbi's top 10 most wanted fugitives list investigators
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needed to track him down fast we sent it all over our local papers the news was out and all of our local news
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the word was getting out that this guy gary ray bowles needed to be found this is what he looks like
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and he needs to be picked up off the streets because he's very dangerous words pretty much can't define how i
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felt i was glad that we we have this person identified you know i can tell the bradley family
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that now we know who who killed milton um then there's another part of me that
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realized now now the hard part starts we have to find [Music] bowles him now becoming infamous across the nation
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and the media had even come up with a nickname for the killer the media started calling bowles the
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i-95 killer because as we found out later that was the way he got around that's the main highway on the east
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coast of the united states that's how he traveled i think this transience is conscious
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it's not something that's happening by accident because there's an awareness
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among serial killers at this particular point in time that police systems perhaps don't always join up
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particularly well the additional publicity led to detectives linking balls to two further
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murders due to the similarly chaotic crime scenes where the victims have been left with something stuffed in their
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mouths david jarman in maryland and albus and carter in georgia after killing five men in just over nine
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weeks bowls had suddenly stopped nobody knew where the 32 year old drifter was i was very worried when he was on the
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run because we're sitting out like open targets on the open highway uh there and i thought that you know he
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might come back one night and say hey remember me what'd you tell them you know are you
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the reason that they all are after me now i just had no idea after laying low for six months bowles
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resurfaced in jacksonville beach florida he couldn't resist killing for a sixth
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time on a winter's morning 42 year old jay hinton didn't turn up at the flower shop
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where he worked well i came on the case i believe it was november 20th of 1994. a relative of mr hintons called in and
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said i believe my brother-in-law my my girlfriend's brother is dead and he's in a trailer that type
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of call uniformed officers were dispatched out there then we as homicide we were notified and we responded as we
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went inside and we went in very carefully and just to speed things up we found the
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deceased individual covered up with blankets and sheets jay hinton's head had been struck by a
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heavy object a cinder block was laying on the bed next to his body the murder bore all the hallmarks of
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another brutal gary ray bowles attack i think the reason for this this extensive violence is because the more
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violent he is the more powerful and the more in control he feels during his childhood he came to learn that violence
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was currency and the more of it you had the better the more powerful you were so
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i think that does explain that the level of brutality that we've seen in these
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cases detective joe collins had read all the information on bulls and was certain
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that the serial killer had struck again at one particular time once we were going through everything there were some
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key things there was a gin bottle he liked drinking gin there were cool cigarettes he liked
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smoking those some of the thing the way the victim was the way we found jay hinton
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uh was also a big clue and i made mention to my partner at the time that i you know hey man i think this might be
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bowls this might be gary bowles but documentation recovered at the scene suggested that someone entirely
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different may be involved in the murder of jay hinton the biggest evidence that we found was
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the ameriforce pay slip the payslip had the name of timothy or tim whitfield on it
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so that was you know i would say that's probably a good one of the best pieces of evidence
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because it gives us the lead to find out why jay hinton the victim had a pay slip belonging to
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someone else while his heart said that bowles was the killer joe's head told him to follow the
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evidence we wanted to know who tim whitefield was don't you know haze the investigation at all
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don't rush through it and say yep it's bowls he's using a different name
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we want to know who this guy tim whitfield was and go from there one step at a time
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the hunt was on joe and his team needed to locate tim whitfield and find out if he truly was gary ray bulls
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before the transient killer moved on and murdered again in november 1994 police in jacksonville beach
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florida were closing the net on serial killer gary ray bulls detectives believe that bulls was
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responsible for the death of 42 year old jay hinton but a payslip left behind at
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the crime scene pointed them towards a man named tim whitfield investigators were certain that
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whitfield and bowles were one and the same well there could hardly be a more obvious
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clue for the local police to find they look at the payslip they approach the ameriforce organization
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and ask if timothy whitfield is working there they're told yes they're then alerted the moment he turns
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up for work and he is arrested for the murder of hinton detective joe collins led the
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interrogation of tim whitfield we my partner and i were asking him questions about
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how he knew jay hinton and he would tell us partial truths things that we already
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knew but then he would switch gears and change up and say something that really wasn't true
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as the interview continued on whitfield grew ever more flustered about the second or third time he
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started wavering again and telling us a story i stopped him abruptly and i said i told you don't lie to me i want you to
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tell me the truth i was a little stern as the way i said it my partner was as well
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and apparently he didn't like that being boxed into a corner so to speak and he jumped up almost got in my face
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and said you want to know who i really am you want me to tell you the truth i'm
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gary ray bowles that's who i am gary ray bowles and he sat down at that particular time i'm looking at
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gary ray bowles right then and there yeah i know this is the guy and i just i remember putting my hands on his
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shoulder his head was down and he said i'm glad it's over and i just i said i'll just calm down
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i'm here and we'll talk about it gary ray balls who had killed six men in
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just eight months was finally in custody he would never be free again well it was an exciting feeling i'm not
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gonna say it was jump for joy or something like that but it was like wow we really do have this guy and i said
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well can you prove it and he goes yeah i can prove it and he pulled out a wallet
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and he said he pulled out tim whitfield's id social security card he goes this is the
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id i stole from the guy i killed in in nassau county and i'm like okay he just submitted to
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another murder but i've got to get my murder down we have to worry about our murder
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moles admitted to doctoring al morris's id card after murdering him in nassau
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county bowles then went into detail about how he killed jay hinton he told the detectives they'd fallen out
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over a mutual friend and jay had told bulls to get out of his house and the more he thought about
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what jay told him the matter he got so he went outside and picked up a square concrete
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leveling block it weighs approximately 40 pounds or so he walked into the bedroom where jay was
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sleeping and dropped the block on jay's head it did not kill jay they struggled with each other back and
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forth gary finally overwhelmed jay because he'd been hit in the head and cracked
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his skull and he strangled him and then he stuff i believe it was a maroon wash rag down his throat and some
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toilet paper as well and i wrapped them up it is one of the most horrifying facts
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about bowls is that in the end i think he came to glory in him glory in his killings he came to
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wear them around him like a a coat i am the i-95 killer and i will get away with it
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i have no doubt whatever that he would have gone on killing remorselessly had he not been caught in november 1994.
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after confessing to the murders of jay hinton and al morris bowles met with detectives in savannah georgia to
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discuss the milton bradley case bulls confessed pretty much chronologically and bulls confessed it
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would depend on which police agency or law enforcement agency was interviewing him at the time
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bulls confessed first to the jacksonville detectives about the murder of jay hinton next
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dennis reagan and i interviewed him about the milton bradley murder and while we were interviewing bowles
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about the murder of milton bradley he confessed to the murder of alverson carter
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bowles would eventually confess to the murders of john roberts and david jarman too
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meaning he had admitted to killing all of his six victims detectives were still fascinated by his
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signature calling card gary told me because i wanted to know why he put things and the rags toilet
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paper washcloths whatever in someone's throat why did you do that and he told
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gary told me he goes i don't know he goes i just didn't want to hear him
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the sound's coming out of their mouth that's what he told me and i said well
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you think you did it to make sure they were dead he goes no i just didn't want to hear him
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i think this was something that was symbolic so it's not only silencing them
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in terms of stopping them from screaming when he's killing them it's also
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silencing them after their deaths he's saying to these men you don't have a
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voice your voice is not worth hearing and this is all coming from those feelings of humiliation and feelings of
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shame that he has within himself so he is essentially taking this out on his victims by shutting them up
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although he had admitted to all six murders balls was originally charged with just one
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j hinton if found guilty of first degree murder in florida bowles would be sentenced to
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death in spite of the other cases there's no point as far as the authorities are concerned in lumping all
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the other crimes together they have him absolutely stone cold on the killing of a hinton in his
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trailer so they proceed on that count alone to begin with by 1999 gary bowles had been sentenced
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to death for the murders of all his florida victims john roberts al morris and jay hinton
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he would spend the next 20 years of his life on death row like so many prisoners on death row
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in the united states appeal after appeal legal process after legal process grinds
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on incessantly it's not until august 2019 that he is finally executed by lethal
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injection in florida gary ray balls was 57 years old when he was executed he always claimed that resentment from
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his childhood and the abortion of his girlfriend's baby in 1985 led him to the fits of rage that
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resulted in the deaths of six innocent men he's blaming his childhood for an
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excuse to to kill i mean he killed six times then his reason that he snapped really you snapped six times so there
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was no remorse and the last part of that if if you had to go to these crime scenes or review
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the photos but look at these crime scenes the amount of overkill the amount of force the amount
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that was used was just just completely over the top it was it was way way more than needed to just just
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kill somebody after the first one with john roberts i can understand the anger which would drive it
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but then afterwards you know what you're doing and that's where the evil comes in it's
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like a dog as they say canines once they bite somebody the first time it becomes a whole lot easier in other
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words the taste of blood humans are almost the same way i just think after the first one it became a
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little bit easier he'd become mad and he wasn't able to hold back the temper
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[Music] moles weaseled his way into the lives of his victims be it for one night or
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longer before killing them in appalling outbursts of rage no matter what caused him to act this
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way nothing can excuse the murder of six men who showed him nothing but kindness
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and hospitality which is why gary ray bowles will always be remembered as one of the world's most evil killers
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