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[Music] crime [Music] kab Bowman was 37 years old when she went missing authorities were not able
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to charge anyone in her slang and that remains True to this day here Captain 30 years later G was well liked she was a
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1974 graduate of UDA High high school she attended Ashland University here in Ohio she earned an associate degree and
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in her career she was a director of respiratory therapy at a hospital this before the early 90s when she started a
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medical business named Premed she was the mother of two children and the stepmother of two more before she went
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missing the general timeline and we went through some of the details of this in our coverage yesterday but on
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February 15th 1993 gai Bowman left work the business that she owned Premed healthc Care at
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6:45 p.m. she supposedly had a business meeting that evening or that night but never disclosed where or with whom the
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following day February 16th gai's ex-husband Greg reports her as missing saying that she never picked up her
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children from the babysitter's home the following day on the 17th of February gai's snow covered van was found outside
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of the Best Western motel on Laver Road this again just one and a half to two miles away from her
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home and not terribly far from her business either then we fast forward to March 16th of the same year
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1993 when a Delaware County engineer finds gai of Bowman's body in a gravel pit or near a gravel pit in Delaware
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County as we said yesterday this is a county that is separated by another County from Richland County where she
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went missing about 50 miles away from home someone had attempted to conceal the body there and police said outwardly
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right from Jump Street that they had no reason to believe that she was killed where she was found in fact they had
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reason and such evidence to suggest that maybe she was killed elsewhere and this
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for a lack of a better term was simply a Dumping Ground so like the colonel was saying she went missing from one County
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her body her remains are found in a different County so now we have two Sheriff departments that are working
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this case yeah and this is where things get even more complicated and sometimes it's great to have multiple agencies
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working the same case and sometimes it's not it's hard for me to sit here and examine this investigation and determine
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who was doing a good job who was doing a not so great job or how well the two Sheriff's departments were working
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together keep in mind there are complications based off of just the time period in which she went missing and
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when she was murdered 1993 technology certainly wasn't what it is today and thus counties that are
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separated by roughly 40 or 50 miles that offers up its own complications into the
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joint what's reported as a joint investigation however what you do have is Richland County caught a case the
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case they caught was a missing person's case this one gai a Bowman was reported missing from her home from her business
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in Richland County Delaware County caught a whole different case same person gai a Bowman however they have a
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homicide investigation to deal with so it what once was a missing person's case now becomes a homicide
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case it may have been easier for the public if it would have been fully handed over to Delaware County from but
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from what I've been told and from my understanding is that was not the case that while it's reported that this was a
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joint investig ation that may be true in some facets of the investigation however
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it does not appear to be true in all cases here because it looked to me like Delaware County and Richland County were
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running two separate investigations on the same case well we don't have a good time frame of when gai was killed
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because of the weather you talked about that yesterday but we do know that she was strangled and she was covered with
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trash and this location this Gravel Pit yeah so the trash came from to be clear it came from Richland County and her
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body's recovered in Delaware County but that is the indicator to detectives that
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she likely was killed elsewhere and then transported to the location where she's
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later found the captain's absolutely right with in regard to that trash there's the dresses and such that are on
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that trash and detectives thought oh great this is not going to take long for us to solve this thing this the debris
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and the trash that is found with our victim might point us to who is responsible well cuz sometimes as we
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know and all the True Crime Community knows sometimes these killers are doom masses that's right and thankfully so
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but in this case the addresses that were provided as clues or could have been Clues to the investigators in gai's
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case were not addresses that led them to any particular suspect in fact from my understanding they end up figuring out
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that the trash likely was pulled from a dumpster from a business was just one more way of trying to hide and conceal
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gai's body we've talked about this plenty of times here on the show and we've we get this information Direct
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directly from Killers themselves their own words where they have said look the the the more that I knew a victim or
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this is coming from the mouths of several serial killers the closer the tie of the victim to me the
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perpetrator the greater the lengths I went to to concealing the body right if it was somebody I didn't know at
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all we could discard them on the side of the road and just continue on because there is nothing there would be nothing
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in the investigation that would lead the detectives from the victim to the perpetrator because it was a stranger
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complete stranger on Stranger crime those same Killers say the reverse if there was any direct connection from the
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from the victim to me I would go to Great Lengths to try to conceal the body because if they can never find the
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victim then they're going to have very little ways to tie it back to me to the perpetrator here what I see is somebody
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going to Great Lengths to try to conceal this victim well one of the other problems with this case though is where
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her remains are found a person wouldn't have to have extensive knowledge of this
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area to know that it would be a good place to leave remains that's exactly right because if you hop off of the
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freeway there you are going to make a right which would take you West and within about a half a mile to
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one mile approximately you are in the sticks there are very few street lights if any at all you are in the sticks so
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you would see this this road this Dunham road you could only turn left onto it and it dead ends at some point and so a
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person very likely could have never have been there before in their entire life right and yet found this road drove down
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this road and thought that looks like that's my spot now keep in mind when we say going to Great Lengths
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to conceal the body the person that's trying to hide the body of Gab Bowman may be under some kind of time
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constraints too they may not have today tomorrow and the next day to figure out what to do with this evidence
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how is the best way to hide and conceal this evidence so they hop in the vehicle
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they grab some trash and now we're going to figure out how we can conceal gai now
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we get some more information here and what's weird in this case Captain is a lot of things well I don't think that
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really any of this information was ever designed or thought to be holdback information it's just this information
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didn't find its way to the public or was wasn't released to the public until it went from being a missing person's case
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to a homicide investigation where a lot of times we will see holdback information starts to trickle out over
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the years or over the months after the case remains unsolved here it looks like they had a lot of this information or
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parts of this information and then later it's confirmed because think about this
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she's missing and for 30 days you have one agency investigating this missing person case 30 days later when she's
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found and it's ruled a homicide you now have two agencies conducting their own investigations right so they're either
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doubling down on the same information or they're finding additional information that was not uncovered before
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previously now we talk about it being difficult to narrow down the time of death for our victim here and that would
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be very key to our timeline for our investigation but I don't think that it is I mean even though we have science
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and we have the coroner saying look she could have been killed the night she went
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missing she could have been killed last week because if you look at the weather for that month in which she was missing
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it rarely gets above freezing during that time period And so she's essentially being stored in a in a
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freezer just outside in this Delaware County open open air storage facility but it doesn't
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take Sherlock Holmes to figure out if nothing bad happened to gai The Bowman she would have picked up her kids that
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night if nothing bad happened to gai The Bowman on the 15th or the 16th she would
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have went to work the next morning so any detective can very quickly look at this and go you know what we're probably
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dealing with something that happened to her that night she was a good mom something prevented her from picking up
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her kids that night she was a good business owner something prevented her from going to work the next day now
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here's an article that starts to fill in some of the blanks here and stop me at any point here captain and we can tear
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through this as much or as little as you want to now this article says Richland County
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sheriff's deputies are asking for help solving the 1993 murder of a Mansfield woman whose body was found off of Dunham
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road in Delaware County Delaware County employee Tom I'll leave out his last name found The partially decomposed body
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of gai a Bowman covered in garbage at the County Gravel Pit off Dunham road March 16th
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1993 the coroner and other lab results told us that she had been strangled but the coroner goes on to say
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that he didn't know exactly how she had been strangled Richland County prosecutor
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said authorities have had a diffic have had difficulty determining gai's activities the night that she
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disappeared February 15th he said he is hoping that someone in Columbus or Delaware County might have seen gai of
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that night that sounds weird to me super weird if she's covered in trash from Mansfield Ohio I don't know why the
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prosecutor up in Richland County would expect that maybe somebody from Columbus or Delaware County might have seen her
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that night or have you know it'd be different to say that hoping that somebody out of the area would have
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information but to have seen her or interacted with her that night unless they're starting to hone in on who she
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was meeting with or or suspected of meeting with and I think we're going to get those answers
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here very soon but isn't that also strange to you we do know that she at least changed her clothes once to me
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that it seems like if you're going to have a business meeting and you're coming from work you just meet the
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individual in your business attire well and that's exactly right and you also get the snow here the snow is going to
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be big indicators on when her body was placed there and when her van when she either she parked her van or somebody
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placed her van where it was later found right so here we have Delaware County Sheriff's detective saying there was
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snow under gai's body indicating that it was snowing before the body was abandoned they went on to say that her
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body was found face down she had no shoes or coat on and one of her front teeth was chipped in half Bowman was
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wearing some expensive gold jewelry when the body was found this indicating that
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robbery robbing this poor woman stealing her valuables was not in the Killer's mindset yeah and you said that she they
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believe that she was strangled but we didn't say if if we thought there was any sign of sexual assault correct and
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in no report do they ever reference that and so my belief would be that no that was not a factor here in this case right
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which leads us to some some motive here no sexual assault and like you said she had some jewelry on her also strange
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that she has a crack front tooth makes makes you think that there was some kind of struggle or fight that at least um
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happened before she was strangled well and without getting too much in the weeds
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here that chip tooth very likely could have happened when she was placed where she was later found right that that's a
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good point we know that she was found face down MH that's a chip that could have occurred by dropping her there yeah
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given how she's found I can't imagine that the killer went out of their way to place her there nice and neat and gently
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especially knowing that then they covered her in garbage this dumping site like you said it's you don't have to
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have a lot of knowledge of that area but it is a risky maneuver because it is a dead end and so there's a possibility
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that you have to go in there quickly dump the body and get out without somebody seeing you correct it that does
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seem risky but go back to what we were talking about before I think there's a high probability of whoever
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there may have never been on that road before right they may not know that it dead ends they they may simply be out
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driving around looking for air quotes a good spot yeah back to what you were saying here captain and
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this is very strange this is weird movements of our victim here uh you referen the different clothing found on
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the body so they go on here to say that gai Bowman it was reported that she was wearing a pant
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suit when she was last seen at work on February 15th right when her body was discovered she's
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wearing a skirt and so openly in this report the authorities are saying that they think
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that she may have changed her clothes possibly in her van before this scheduled business meeting yeah they're
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saying possibly but you'd think they'd have this information because if you find those pants the pants suit in her
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van you would know obviously correct well and we're going to get back to this van and well we'll continue on with the
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van here but the van is is a big problem with this investigation and unfortunately Richland County did not
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handle the van in a great way so the van's found the day after she's reported missing they look at it they examine it
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they give the van to gai's husband Gary then she's found murdered 28 29 days later yeah mistake
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and again though I mean this her van is found she's reported missing but her van is found and there's
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snow so there's probably other vehicles that and we live in central Ohio when it's snows really bad or there's a
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decent amount of snow when you're driving to work or driving to Places You'll see cars on the side of the road
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you'll see cars that were abandoned so they might had a decent amount of vehicles to deal with during that time
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period well and one thing that I want to point out here too is and this might be
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obvious to some but it's not so obvious to others when authorities are saying look she we have witnesses saying she
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left work wearing outfit a we find her body she's wearing outfit B right we are open telling the public who we are
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currently asking for help we believe that she changed her clothes in her van before this business meeting MH and you
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said well if they would have found her other clothing in her van then they would know this statement does not mean
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that they did not find her other clothing in her van right you know when you're asking the public for help and
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especially in this in a homicide investigation you don't need a clue in every Tom Dick and Harry about exactly
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what happened what you found or what you did not find what they have not found let's let's pretend for a second they
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did not find their her clothes in her van and in fact finding her clothes in her van would not 100% guarantee to you
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as an investigator that she did in fact change her clothes in her van right what
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is clear what they're not finding is anybody saying yeah she went into the restroom at work and came out wearing a
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different outfit or yeah she was in my place of work or or my business or she was at the bar or the hotel or wherever
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she came in one went in one door wearing one outfit and came out wearing a different outfit so that's what we don't
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have in the investigation but what we do have is like you said the the missing person report is called in by her
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ex-husband I think the lack of actions by her current husband is a little fishy really fishy a whole lot of fishy I was
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trying to be nice to the fish continuing on with the van in this report we get a
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little bit more information where it's saying that her van was found in the parking lot of the Best Western motel in
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Richland County it it says authorities believe gai The Bowman was already missing when the van was parked at the
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motel I don't know how they they seem convinced of this but they are pointing out and once again referencing the snow
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saying that Bowman disappeared before they believe that Bowman disappeared before midnight night on February
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15th and because there was no snow underneath the van and there was snow on top of the van and it was snowing by
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midnight that night they believed that her van was placed there before midnight and obviously it remained there until
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after midnight and they believe stayed there the entire time that it was snowing well you wonder if law
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enforcement found any footprints in the snow these are people that were questioned by authorities and I want to
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be 100% clear here these are not suspects they are not even Persons of Interest these are people that they
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decided they should talk to when she was a missing B later found deceased it says those questioned by
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authorities include gai's husband Gary her best friend Mary her 13-year-old son Jason her ex-husband Greg Gary Bowman's
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Father Charles three employees at her medical supply business a local physician whose business she was trying
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to obtain and then numerous unnamed persons so it says numerous others with a reminder that no charges have been filed
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in in the case as of this report but going on to say definitively and for The public's information that they currently
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at this time did not have a prime suspect in gai's case they're also not stating that they cleared any of these
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individuals correct and it would be I wouldn't expect them to to publicly announce anybody being cleared
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especially when we have so many questions in the timeline itself you know one detective told me once when I
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asked him on a different case I said hey did you did you clear anybody uh in this case and he said look
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you know we like like so many cases we don't clear anybody until the case is solved and he he went on to say in fact
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that when he arrives on a crime scene there are only two people that are not suspects himself and his
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mother what I find of Interest here captain in this later report that's coming out is the information that's
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coming from her employees at her work so we're getting again it's hard to say because
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now we have two agencies investigating this case where before we just had the one so is this new information that was
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gleaned by the new agency in in in investigating the homicide or was this old information that just never made its
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way to the public because either it was a unnecessary to tell them or B it might
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have been some kind of holdback information and the two things that come out from the employees at her work was
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one that it was not such a mystery of who she might have been meeting that night the business meeting was with this
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local physician whose business Gaya and pertica her company was trying to obtain
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right right they're trying to become this physician this hospital or doctor's office medical supplier so this seems
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like a typical run-of-the-mill business meeting however this person's not a complete mystery to all involved they
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know who the physician is they SP they spoke investigators spoke with this physician right that's why they
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questioned him the other thing that comes out in this report was that there was an argument that was not so secret
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to the employees that took place the day that she went missing so they report to the authorities there
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was an argument that was that went on between Gaya and her husband Gary at Premed that day what's weird here
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Captain is this depending on which agency you talk to they describe this argument
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differently now you only have three Witnesses and maybe each of those Witnesses had a different interpretation
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of this argument and maybe that's why we get varying stories but the very brief description one provided by Richland
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County Sheriff's Office they describe it as a violent argument that took place at
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work that day Delaware County describes it as a loud a very loud argument that took place that
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unpack in this complex case thanks so much for listening thanks for telling a friend cheers to you all
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and cheers to you carel cheers to you captain and cheers to all of the good people especially the ones sitting way
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in the back here's some detailed information on that that day and again I think we need to
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underline this circle it I don't think it takes Sherlock Holmes to figure out whatever happened to gai happened that
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night or in the we hours of the next morning and you almost have detectives outwardly saying this they they are
00:32:23
saying that look because of how her van was found and because the weather conditions that night we believe that
00:32:30
she went missing or something happened to her and potentially her van was later placed there again we'll get back to
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that van but the information that we get much later in this investigation are saying that it was learned that gai owed
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the IRS approximately 8 to 10 grand in business related taxes now this sounds this may sound
00:32:54
like a a whole bunch of money but well it's not a ton ton for a business it's yeah it's back taxes but it's it's not a
00:33:00
ton and then I don't think there's I don't think they put a ton of pressure on you to pay them off immediately you
00:33:07
can kind of pay them through a period of time the business itself was successful
00:33:13
so it seems like they would if not immediately have the means to pay this off they would at some point now back
00:33:20
taxes what have you February 1993 that is going to be tax SE for her business anyway so it's difficult for us to sit
00:33:30
here and say how far in the rears were they with the taxes but it's believed that the argument that took place
00:33:39
between her husband Gary and gai at work that day may have been in relation to this money that the business owed to the
00:33:49
IRS the employees went on to tell the authorities that Gary Bowman left preda at 64 5 p.m. it is believed that he went
00:33:59
and got his glasses repaired and it stated almost as fact here so my guess is somebody knew that information or
00:34:08
Gary told that information to the authorities and they were able to back it up he goes on to say that he ate
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dinner and then came home and he was home about 8:20 p.m. that night he says that when he arrived home gai and the
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children were not at home he decided to go out and start looking for her stopping first at the Best Western motel
00:34:31
where he told authorities he thought he had seen her van well this would go with
00:34:36
the timeline a little bit here that we've been told by the authorities yeah but it's very strange why wouldn't you
00:34:41
just call the babysitter to see if she picked up the kids yeah but I I I think we need to point out the obvious here
00:34:48
this doesn't indicate that he didn't call the babysitter he's not going to I would doubt that he would just
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willy-nilly just start going out and driving around looking for his wife and children he probably very likely reached
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out to the babysitter at this point but we do know he's out looking for her I think what the strange thing here
00:35:08
is him telling authorities that he stopped at the Best Western motel where he told authorities he thought he had
00:35:15
seen her van he says when he reached the parking lot he realized that it was not
00:35:19
her van he then went into the lounge which would be that that bar that was uh in the same parking
00:35:27
for about 15 minutes or so and then returned home he said that he fell asleep and then he woke up about 2 a.m.
00:35:34
and this is when he realized once again that his wife and children still had not
00:35:39
returned at this time he calls gai's mother and he calls the babysitter this to try to locate the children as we
00:35:48
pointed out that location where the van is found is not terribly far from their home it does not surprise me that this
00:35:55
would be in his route when he's out driving around looking for his wife looking for his children what surprises
00:36:03
me is to have a statement from the husband that says you know what I pulled in to the parking lot because I thought
00:36:10
I saw her van there and then I got out of my vehicle I determined that it was not her van I go inside I had a drink
00:36:18
and then I went home left the lounge arrives home around 8:20 or so falls asleep the problem with
00:36:28
this statement is her van is later found in this parking lot so what the hell is
00:36:34
it right was it her van or not I me I mean it's like the uh Princess Bride you hear the statement you go
00:36:45
inconceivable how the how the hell can he tell authorities I stopped there because I thought I saw her van and then
00:36:52
determined that the van I spotted was not hers and then later her van is found in this location so I I mean I can't
00:37:01
wrap my head around this yeah is he just such a dumbass that he can't identify his own wife's van or is it possible
00:37:10
that he's like well somebody might have saw me at the at the Best Western so I need to place myself there that's what I
00:37:19
think we have going on here because according to his own statement he went into the bar such a dawn thing man to
00:37:26
Esta your own Alibi that's a dawn thing you know you would expect that if well here it sounds like it's a Gary thing
00:37:34
but you would expect that if he went into the lounge as he states to authorities that somebody would have
00:37:41
seen him and then there's the other thing though too is you know we're reading these reports we're not there to
00:37:48
question this individual and ask for the details could it have simply been that he was unable to discern 100% if this
00:37:58
was was or was not his wife's van so he did go inside to see if she would be there right and then because she wasn't
00:38:06
in there he decided that oh it's probably not her van a 1990 Dodge van is not an incredibly uncommon vehicle right
00:38:15
it's weird to me that we have the ex-husband that's calling in the missing person's report well and also look it's
00:38:24
the early '90s there was a lot of people with little stickers or bumper stickers
00:38:29
and so it's like yeah you there's a lot of vehicles that are the same vehicles but there's normally some kind of
00:38:36
identifying marker you'd think that he' know maybe some information of what her license plate said I agree with you 100%
00:38:44
Captain I I that's the the biggest problem with Gary's story to me again Princess Bride inconceivable to
00:38:55
tell me that you went there and you purposely pulled into that parking lot because you thought you spotted your
00:39:01
wife's van somehow some way determined that it was not her van and then she's missing later found
00:39:10
killed and her van is found in that parking lot less than 48 hours after she left work that day well and also less
00:39:18
than a few hours after you were supposedly at her work and had this heated conversation
00:39:24
or the other report is a violent confrontation yes and that that's weird too now we do have the victim's
00:39:35
mother who openly stated that she was very unhappy with the investigation she is stating outwardly
00:39:45
that there were problems with the investigation from the first week she doesn't have a whole lot of problems
00:39:51
with the investigation as it took place going forward after it was known that this was
00:39:56
a homicide investigation she has a problem with how things were handled within that first week in particular the
00:40:03
van the finding of the van itself and then releasing it she has openly said to the public that she thinks that a lot of
00:40:11
evidence a lot of information was missed was lost and gone forever when they returned
00:40:19
that van to Gary Bowman well they returned it so quickly and and this is information we don't
00:40:26
have not privy to but it's like well what the what's the color of the interior and is it possible that there
00:40:32
was blood in the interior that maybe somebody just missed but you give it back to this individual that you haven't
00:40:40
really questioned and why didn't he call to report his wife missing I cannot for
00:40:46
the life of me figure out why he doesn't report her missing okay I I can get over
00:40:52
that fact what I can't get over is that if I'm an investigator and I'm looking at this and I'm going husband doesn't
00:40:58
call this in right we find the van he's telling us he went to this parking lot location that he told you he
00:41:07
went to we find this van later I I'm wondering what kind of search was done on this van it seems to
00:41:16
me like they just willy-nilly released it and probably didn't take good inventory or record of What observations
00:41:25
they could make on this van right and the other thing too I want to be clear here yes we're dancing
00:41:33
around the whole idea that Gary is probably a prime suspect or should be but definitely should be a person of
00:41:41
interest but regardless of who is responsible for this homicide it doesn't have to be Gary that
00:41:48
killed her for evidence in that van to have been lost like her mother is pointing out whoever the Killer
00:41:55
is there could be evidence that was lost against them regarding this van and the
00:42:00
returning of this van the timeline let's take it out a little bit further here so after the body is recovered in March
00:42:10
of 1993 and July of 93 we start having investigators singing a different song we now have two
00:42:20
suspects in gab Bowman's homicide they do not name one of the suspects but if you're willing to read
00:42:31
between the lines and you don't have to read very hard you can see that they're almost openly naming the second
00:42:39
suspect and hit me it's Gary Bowman and again they're not outwardly stating 100% they're not saying they're
00:42:49
not putting those words in the same sentence Gary Bowman is a murder suspect but what they are saying
00:42:55
is we have gone to Gary we've asked him to submit blood we've taken blood from this person
00:43:04
and we are now going to be conducting test conducting DNA test we have the DNA from our two suspects and
00:43:15
we're thinking that these test once we get the test back it's going to tell us who did it it's either person a or
00:43:23
person B we've narrowed it down to person a or person B and based off of the DNA evidence we think that it's
00:43:30
going to tell us which of these two people so what the problem here in the investigation became that they could not
00:43:39
you asked about clearing somebody they could not clear either of these two individuals there was evidence to
00:43:47
suggest that one of these two people was the last person to see gai a Bowman the
00:43:53
evidence unfortunately could not clear either person okay so when we look at Gary again very strange he doesn't call
00:44:02
in a missing person report on his wife he does have a alibi for leaving the business and he went to get his glasses
00:44:12
fixed but after that by his own Omission he has no alibi so if we're thinking that this
00:44:22
murder took place that night or at least she was kidnapped that night he doesn't have a solid Alibi and
00:44:29
then this other individual who I have to believe is the physician that she told some people she was going to go meet
00:44:37
right which would make the most sense then it makes you wonder well maybe he didn't have a solid Alibi either and you
00:44:44
have to believe that right unless unless they have something in the investigation
00:44:48
saying that she met up with some unknown person or let's say went into the bar and somebody approaches her the thing is
00:44:58
though they don't have any information or any evidence suggesting any of that their evidence suggest to them that the
00:45:05
last person to see gai of Bowman that night was either a this physician or B her husband and so you're saying that
00:45:15
they took DNA from both of these individuals they test it and they can't there's no conclusive answer yeah and so
00:45:24
let me give up uh a little bit of insight on that and this is this is just the colonel here reading between the
00:45:32
lines okay there was a struggle there was a struggle that took place we had already said that the
00:45:41
coroner says well she was strangled but we don't know how she was very likely strangled just
00:45:48
somebody wrapping their hands around her neck right after a struggle took place so there was a struggle
00:45:56
and I look I'm making a lot of inferences here but I think a lot of them will make some
00:46:04
sense once we go through them because we have two individuals that we cannot clear either and I think you are exactly
00:46:12
spot on here Captain I think there's a problem with The Alibi of both of them we have her husband who openly admits
00:46:18
that after a certain time that night he has nobody to account for his whereabouts we also have this physician
00:46:27
who it is stated that she was going to go meet that night he says that they did not meet that night and he had met her
00:46:34
in the past but did not meet her that night obviously there has to be some problems with his Alibi because they're
00:46:42
still interested in this dude now basing the idea off of there being a struggle and that one of these two individuals
00:46:49
was the last to see her here's my thoughts nowhere ever is sexual assault ever mentioned in any of the reports so
00:46:58
I don't believe that they believe that that took place what I do think that they have
00:47:04
evidence of and they're not outwardly saying it is that if a struggle took place she very likely may have the
00:47:13
Killer's DNA skin scrapings what have you underneath her fingernails right now here becomes the
00:47:22
problem for your investigation one would expect to find her husband's DNA under her
00:47:31
fingernails very likely right very possible yes we know this from other homicide victims we know we know this
00:47:39
from other cases you can there there are cases where victims went to school all day long and they find DNA or some kind
00:47:46
of evidence underneath fingernails of of persons that had nothing to do with their homicide right
00:47:53
what I believe these tests were was to rule in or rule out this physician right because you might
00:48:05
expect again it's not 100% but it's also not out of the realm of possibility you
00:48:11
might expect to find DNA of the husband underneath the fingernails whether he's responsible or not but you wouldn't
00:48:19
expect to find the Physicians especially if he says he did not meet her that night so when these tests come back the
00:48:28
best thing for your investigation is for it to match up to the physician because then that tells you he
00:48:34
lied to you that tells you his story is wrong he lied to authorities now he has just separated himself from the other
00:48:43
suspect this case is unsolved 30 years later they've never publicly said what the results of those test were but I can
00:48:50
tell you what those results were because it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that test came back and did
00:48:56
not show evidence of this physician or we wouldn't be sitting here 30 years later with an unsolved case yeah cuz
00:49:03
they would have made the arrest he already made the statement and I didn't meet up with her that night there's no
00:49:07
reason for her his DNA to be under her fingernails or on her person and if they found that DNA they'd make the arrest no
00:49:15
solid Alibi and your DNA that's enough to go to trial the problem again with the suspicious behavior of her husband
00:49:24
is you can explain away the DNA where gai's mother is absolutely correct when gai went missing if they would have
00:49:33
question everybody initially and then searched the person but maybe there'd be some wounds on Gary and then it would be
00:49:41
a lot harder to explain away the DNA MH I I agree with her mother that a lot of this the missteps
00:49:50
were the initial week of the investigation Richland County didn't know exactly what they were dealing with
00:49:57
so we got to say that in their defense however they could have handled this van situation much differently and they
00:50:06
could have looked at the early facts in the investigation in their missing persons investigation and
00:50:13
probably looked at it very differently given the facts that we now know the facts that came to light to to
00:50:20
became public information well this is a this is a mother of two correct this is
00:50:25
this is a successful businesswoman correct if I'm law enforcement I'm trying my damnedest to get a search
00:50:32
warrant for that vehicle I'm trying my damnedest to get a search warrant for the for her business and anywhere that
00:50:37
she would operate that business I would be getting I would be trying my damnedest to get a search warrant for
00:50:44
her house and to question and and search her husband it you know it it it sucks cuz
00:50:52
we see this so many times in cases where where they find an abandoned vehicle and because they deal with that
00:51:01
so often that they just go well it the the owner is going to turn up it's not that big of a deal but in this case it's
00:51:10
a little different because we have a missing person before you find the vehicle gab Bowman age 37
00:51:17
disappeared 30 years ago next week the case is still unsolved Delaware County Sheriff's office is still investigating
00:51:27
her homicide if anybody has any information you can call police desperately want
00:51:35
information about this case and I believe as said in the trailer of yesterday's show I believe and I know
00:51:42
the captain believes that one probably two or three people have some information that they've just not been
00:51:49
will that they've just not been willing to release or to give to the authorities
00:51:54
Delaware County Sheriff's Office is still investigating this homicide if anybody has information please contact
00:52:00
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