Bowles received the death penalty for the November 1994 murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach.”The Tampa detective, I remember her exact quote, &24K strong straight umbrella39;I’ve seen better looking bodies in an autopsy,'” Best said. His father was a coal miner who died of black lung before he was born. Investigators said Bowles survived by letting gay men perform sex acts on him for money, though he has maintained he is straight. “Why do you kill people after the first one? The first one could be a mistake, maybe. In each case, Bowles had a signature: He stuffed the victims’ throats with objects — towels, rags, toilet paper, dirt, leaves and even a sex toy.Bowles received the death penalty for the November 1994 murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach.”He also had a history of violence against women. He said he did not perform on them. He said during an interview with detectives, Bowles freely admitted to killing his male victims, almost in a boastful manner, but when asked if there were female victims, he hemmed and hawed.”He probably enjoyed it after a while,” said Thomas Youngman, a Daytona Beach detective assigned to the Roberts murder. Former Savannah detective John Best remembers hearing details of the crime as he investigated the murder of 72-year-old World War II veteran Milton Bradley.The sentence was carried out at 10:58 pm, according to the office of Gov Ron DeSantis.Bowles, 57, was raised in West Virginia, where he experienced drugs and violence at a young age.Best still suspects that Bowles is bisexual and also believes he might have killed women.He was convicted of beating and raping his girlfriend while living in Tampa in 1982 and sentenced to eight years in prison.”It began in Daytona Beach with the murder of John Hardy Roberts.
He never gave us a yes or no answer, Best said.The sentence was carried out at 10:58 pm, according to the office of Gov Ron DeSantis. “It was, ‘Let’s change the subject.'”. His mother and brother testified that Bowles began drinking, smoking marijuana and huffing glue when he was 11 years old. The victim had severe injuries, including tears on her vagina and anus. Starke: Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree that left six dead, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison. But then the second, all right, I’ll maybe give you that. Hinton was Bowles’ sixth and final known victim in a series of killings in an eight-month span in 1994 that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor and won him the nickname the “I-95 killer. His mother remarried multiple times, and his first two stepfathers were abusive, according to court records.That’s when Bowles left home.Investigators said if he hadn’t been caught, he would have kept on killing. What proved more difficult was capturing him, something they were unable to do until after five other # men in three states had been slain.”He’d befriend these old guys and have sexual relations with them, but I think they performed on him. When he was 13, he fought against his second stepfather, smashing a rock in his head and nearly killing him, according to court records. In between, there were victims in Rockville, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta; and Nassau County, Florida. But the third, fourth fifth and sixth? When do you stop?”It wasn’t hard for Daytona Beach police to figure out who killed Roberts , the first victim in March 1994: Bowles left a probation document at the scene and also was caught on an ATM camera trying to withdraw money from Roberts’ account.
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