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Fred dinenage
(narrates): In may 1994,

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the body of 72-year-old world
war ii veteran, Milton Bradley

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was discovered on a golf
course on Savannah, Georgia.

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He had been savagely
murdered by a mysterious stranger

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who had vanished
without a trace.

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At the time,
nobody could tell me

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that they had a murder
with similar circumstances

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or a suspect matching the
mystery man or mystery person,

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the drifter who showed
up in Savannah,

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was last seen with
Bradley, and was now gone.

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The killer was Gary ray bowles,

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a 32-year-old transient with
an apparent hatred of gay men.

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He would go on to claim

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two more victims after the
murder of Milton Bradley.

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Anybody who came
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anybody who formed part of his life,
who became a significant individual

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was somebody who
was in danger from him

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because he's somebody who
has no respect for other people.

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He doesn't see other
people's lives as valuable.

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After slaying more victims

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with impunity up and
down the i-95 highway,

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bowles was finally apprehended

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after killing Jacksonville
beach resident Jay hinton,

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by brutally caving in his
skull with a cinder block.

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He targeted perfectly
innocent, perfectly upright,

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perfectly reasonable men.

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He's ruthless, wicked,
depraved and relentless.

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Gary ray bowles,
the i-95 killer,

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had run out of road

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and been discovered as one
of the world's most evil killers.

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(Theme music)

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In November, 1994,

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32-year-old Gary ray bowles

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confessed his vicious
killing spree to detectives.

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Over the previous eight months,

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bowles had taken the lives
of six men across three states,

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most of his murders had
happened just off interstate 95

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on the east coast of the us.

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One of the investigators

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who helped to identify
bowles as a serial killer

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was rookie detective, John best.

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What are the chances,

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your first murder

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you are going to get
a guy that kills six men

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up and down the east
coast of the United States

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becomes a 10 most
wanted fugitive?

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Then, you get
to interview him...

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And he gets...

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Put to death...

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As a result of these crimes.

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And here we are 27 years later,

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and we are still talking
about Gary ray bowles.

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So, it stays in your head.

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Bowles was finally captured
after the murder of Jay hinton

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in Jacksonville beach, Florida.

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Detective Joe Collins spent
days speaking with the killer

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after a stunning confession,

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in which bowles admitted
to killing all six of his victims.

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Initially, when you
get close to somebody,

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and you're talking, you
have a rapport going...

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And you want to keep that going,

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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.

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I don't know but we were talking
like two guys drinking a beer

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on the beach or something.

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Until I pulled out the
photographs of my victim,

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and all that went away.

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Bowles left a trail of blood and
destruction wherever he went.

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Every single crime
scene was overkill.

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It's not like one
shot, one stab wound.

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I just think that that rage,

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and when you throw in
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that...

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Created a monster.

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This killer's story begins
in Clifton forge, Virginia.

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Gary ray bowles was born
on the January 25, 1962.

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He was raised by his mother

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and a succession of different
father figures in Rupert, West Virginia.

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Bowles never
knew his real father

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because he died
before bowles was born.

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So, this was something that
had a significant impact on his life,

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as it does on many
children in this situation.

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There are lots of kids whose
fathers die before they're born.

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This isn't a prescription
for serial murder,

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but it's what his father
was replaced with,

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which is the issue in this case.

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Two of bowles' stepfathers
violently abused the youngster,

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while his mother reportedly
refused to step in and help her son.

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These men were
not ideal stepfathers

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by any stretch of
the imagination.

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These were men who abused bowles

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he was somebody who
never felt particularly safe

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or secure, or childlike
in his own home.

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Home was a
dangerous place for him.

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At the age of 10 years old,

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he started to engage
in substance abuse.

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At the time he
was sniffing glue,

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snorting whatever
he can like paint

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to get high just in this frantic
effort to escape the pain

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that was inflicted upon
him by his stepfathers.

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As he matured into a
teenager, bowles finally snapped.

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And the boy, then only 13,

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really hit back his
dubious stepfather.

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In fact, he hit him
with a rock very hard

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in an effort to stop him.

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He was fed up with the fact
that his mother was being abused

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and his brother was being
abused and he was being abused

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and he wanted
to put a stop to it.

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I think this is something

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that is a very pivotal
moment for him.

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He has been in this household
where violence is normal,

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violence is every day,

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violence is a way of exerting your
power and your control over others.

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And bowles at this
point has had enough.

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And I think he probably feels

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that he has won at
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He had some kind of
victory over his abuser.

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Now, he comes to equate
violence with power.

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His stepfather
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but the incident led to
bowles leaving home

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while still in his early teens.

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Drifting up and
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he found a dubious
way to make money.

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What Gary told me
was, he found it easy to...

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Say for instance, he
was hitchhiking a ride,

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one particular
incident that he told me.

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The man gave him a ride,
and then offered him money...

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For sex.

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he's found a solution
to some of his problems.

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But on the other hand,

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I think this creates a
whole new problem in itself.

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Because in doing this, he's
fuelling feelings of shame

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and... and feelings
of regret, essentially.

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All violence is rooted in shame.

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So, this is not a
good combination.

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In 1982, the
20-year-old was arrested

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for a violent attack
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which left her
physically scarred for life.

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He blamed alcohol.
He blamed drug use.

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He only claimed to
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but it was a horrible attack.

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To quote the detective

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in a probation or
sentencing hearing,

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she said she had seen better
looking bodies in the morgue.

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Bowles served 18
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but when he was
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the 21-year-old soon settled
down with a new girlfriend.

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In fact, she gets
pregnant by bowles

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and they seem to have
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of maybe a family life.

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But then she makes a discovery,

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bowles is still working
as a male sex worker. He's

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still prostituting himself.

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And she can't
stand that lifestyle.

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She rejects it utterly.

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She calls him a hustler

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and she then aborts
the child, their child.

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Bowles would later claim

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that this was the
trigger that led him

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to target a specific
type of victim.

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He did mention to me that...

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And I'll quote it, he said,
"they killed my baby."

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They, meaning
homosexuals, killed his baby.

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According to bowles that
put him in a vicious circle

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where he had to
go out and hustle

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and beat these gay
men and get their money.

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And he became enraged
at the gay men for that.

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It was an anger that led to a
succession of misdemeanours

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that would land bowles in and
out of prison for the next decade.

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In march, 1994,

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Gary ray bowles was at the
home of 59-year-old John Roberts

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in Daytona beach, Florida.

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The circumstances surrounding
their friendship are not known,

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but years later
the killer confessed

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that he and Roberts had got
into an argument over a woman

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whom bowles had
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Gary was on the phone...

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And John Roberts made
a derogatory remark,

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or said, you know, "you don't
need to be talking to that bitch,"

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something very nasty.

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And it really upset Gary.

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So, Gary said...

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John Roberts was
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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,

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and he stuffed a rag or
something in his mouth.

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And then he fled
the scene from there.

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In an apparent fit of rage,
32-year-old Gary ray bowles

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had killed for
the very first time.

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This is an important murder

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because bowles
didn't get caught for it.

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And I think he learns from this,

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that actually murder is something
that you can get away with.

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And I... I think that after this
murder, he's... he's reliving it.

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He's thinking about it.

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He's enjoying those feelings
of power that it gave him.

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But it's not long before he wants
to experience those feelings again.

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Gary ray bowles now
had a taste for murder.

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John Roberts was the first, but
he would not be the last victim

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on bowles's
chaotic killing spree.

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In just over nine weeks' time,
another four men would be dead.

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In march 1994,

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32-year-old drifter, Gary ray bowles
had taken the life of another man

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in Daytona beach, Florida.

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John Roberts had
been bludgeoned,

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and then strangled to
death in his own home.

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Detectives searching for the killer
had a major breakthrough early on.

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The Daytona beach police found

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a piece of probation
or parole paperwork

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that belonged to Gary ray
bowles at the scene of the murder.

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But Gary ray bowles is
no longer in Daytona beach.

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He's gone.

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And what's more,
he starts another...

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Trade which is to become
part of his signature.

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He changes his name.

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Going by an unknown alias,

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bowles made his way
to silver spring, Maryland.

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Just a month after the
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bowles would later confess

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to the murder of
39-year-old David jarman,

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after meeting him on a night
out in the dupont circle region

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of Washington DC.

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Gary told me that mr jarman
was doing something he didn't like.

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And he told them to stop.

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Mr jarman did not stop,

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and Gary got mad
and strangled him...

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And wrapped him
up in bedsheets...

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Turned the ac down real low,

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so it'd be cold in
there, and he left.

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Just as he had forced something
into the mouth of his first victim,

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John Roberts, bowles did
the same to David jarman.

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Jarman is beaten, strangled...

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But this time...

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There's a little
additional twist.

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Bowles stuffs a sex toy into his
victim's mouth when he leaves him.

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This murder is interesting
because he stuffed the sex toy

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in this... this man's mouth.

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This is something that he's...
he's doing in a performative way.

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He's wanting to
humiliate his victim.

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David jarman had last been
seen leaving a bar on p street

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with an unknown man.

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The murder stunned
the local residents.

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It sent shock waves
through the community

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because you just didn't
hear of such things back then.

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And it really hit home
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because dupont circle was known

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to be a popular
hangout for gay people.

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And they had many
bars and restaurants

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that many liked to frequent

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because it was just
the cool place to go.

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Investigators had no idea

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that the murders of David jarman
and John Roberts were linked.

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The two crime scenes
were over 700 miles apart,

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which meant that two
different police departments

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were working on the cases.

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It's not as if this is
a master criminal.

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On the contrary but he
is clever enough to do

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is to cross county lines...

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Thereby evading the
local police department

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and you have to
remember at this point,

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there is no national database.

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Bowles would soon strike again,

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just three weeks after the
murder of David jarman,

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he was in yet another
state, Savannah, Georgia,

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the home of 72-year-old
local hero, Milton Bradley.

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Milton Bradley was
a world war ii veteran.

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He suffered a brain
injury in world war ii,

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was totally disabled...

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And got along with a stipend
from his family that he got daily.

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And...

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He was a very, very
nice, kind, gentle man

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and pretty much stayed in
the downtown Savannah area,

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which was his footprint.

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He didn't leave that area.

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On the may 5, 1994,

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Milton Bradley's body was
found on a nearby golf course.

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He had become victim number
three of Gary ray bowles.

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There were pieces
of a broken toilet.

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The leaves and dirt around
Bradley's body were in disarray,

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and there were scrapes in
the back of a maintenance shed

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that indicated somebody
had been forced against it

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or that a struggle, violent
struggle had taken place.

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There was a severe
amount of trauma

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to Bradley's face,
and neck, and head.

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And the strangest thing

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about it was there
were dirt and leaves...

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Protruding from Bradley's mouth.

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Just like David jarman,

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Milton Bradley had last
been seen in a local bar

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with a mysterious out of towner.

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We began receiving information,
myself and my partner at the time,

293
00:15:59,523 --> 00:16:01,843
detective Deborah Robinson,
from the gay community

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00:16:01,883 --> 00:16:04,643
that Bradley had
been seen with a drifter

295
00:16:04,683 --> 00:16:07,563
who had come into town who
was telling different stories,

296
00:16:07,603 --> 00:16:09,963
giving different stories
about where he was from,

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00:16:10,003 --> 00:16:11,899
how he got to Savannah,
and giving different names.

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00:16:11,923 --> 00:16:15,243
He was identified as
James, Mike, or Mark.

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The killer's palm print was
taken at the crime scene,

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00:16:18,723 --> 00:16:22,323
but detectives had no
idea who it belonged to.

301
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They were unaware

302
00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:25,843
that a serial killer
was on the loose,

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00:16:25,883 --> 00:16:29,163
working up and down
the 1900-mile long,

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i-95 highway.

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So, you now had three murders

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within the space of two months.

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Bowles is unrepentant and
absolutely determined to go on killing.

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00:16:42,243 --> 00:16:46,003
Bowles stayed in Georgia
to claim his next victim.

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Although it was a detour from
his usual route along the i-95,

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his mo remained the same.

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He crossed paths with 47-year-old
alverson Carter in Atlanta

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on the may 13.

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He met mr Carter in a gay bar.

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And I guess mr Carter invited
Gary over to his apartment.

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So, that once he was over
there, they were drinking,

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and then they got
engaged into sex.

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Mr Carter, according to Gary,

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was very aggressive
in his sexual behaviour.

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And Gary was telling him to
quit doing what he was doing.

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He didn't like it.

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00:17:28,363 --> 00:17:30,163
Gary went downstairs,

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00:17:30,203 --> 00:17:34,723
told to Carter that he went down
there to get some more liquor.

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He picked up a knife,
went back upstairs,

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and killed him by stabbing him.

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This case was a very unique case

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00:17:46,603 --> 00:17:49,083
when it comes to
bowles's crime...

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00:17:50,363 --> 00:17:55,363
Because alverson Carter
was killed via stab wounds.

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00:17:55,403 --> 00:18:00,363
This was the first of his
and only of his murders

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where there was
stabbing involved.

330
00:18:04,243 --> 00:18:06,803
It was the signs of
a violent struggle,

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00:18:06,843 --> 00:18:10,043
furniture broken
and in disarray.

332
00:18:10,083 --> 00:18:13,403
Alverson Carter's mouth
was stuffed with a towel.

333
00:18:16,163 --> 00:18:20,483
As the investigation into
alverson Carter's murder began,

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00:18:20,523 --> 00:18:23,403
bowles was already
in a different state.

335
00:18:23,443 --> 00:18:26,443
Back in Florida and on the i-95,

336
00:18:26,483 --> 00:18:29,003
he surfaced just
north of Jacksonville,

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00:18:29,043 --> 00:18:30,643
in Nassau county,

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00:18:30,683 --> 00:18:34,403
where he soon befriended
37-year-old al Morris.

339
00:18:35,763 --> 00:18:38,403
Al was a very fun person.

340
00:18:38,443 --> 00:18:40,043
He liked to have a good time.

341
00:18:40,083 --> 00:18:43,883
He was business, but he
liked to party on the weekends,

342
00:18:43,923 --> 00:18:48,763
liked to furnish people
with food and drinks.

343
00:18:48,803 --> 00:18:50,083
He liked to have a good time.

344
00:18:51,403 --> 00:18:57,163
Jackie remembers the first
time he met al's new friend.

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00:18:57,203 --> 00:18:59,003
They were supposed
to come to my store,

346
00:18:59,043 --> 00:19:02,403
and they actually arrived a little
earlier and come over to my house.

347
00:19:02,443 --> 00:19:04,643
And that's when
I first met Gary,

348
00:19:04,683 --> 00:19:09,003
which al introduced me
to him as Joey Pearson.

349
00:19:09,043 --> 00:19:12,643
And he was standing there
with his hands in his pockets,

350
00:19:12,683 --> 00:19:15,203
already wearing al's clothes,

351
00:19:15,243 --> 00:19:18,723
and I thought that it
struck me kind of odd.

352
00:19:18,763 --> 00:19:21,163
Despite his initial concern,

353
00:19:21,203 --> 00:19:25,803
Jackie soon warmed to
the mysterious stranger.

354
00:19:25,843 --> 00:19:29,603
His personality traits to
start out was very friendly,

355
00:19:29,643 --> 00:19:31,563
he was kind of outgoing,

356
00:19:31,603 --> 00:19:34,443
had a good little sense
of humour about him,

357
00:19:34,483 --> 00:19:39,283
and he... could he could wedge
his way right into a crowd real easy.

358
00:19:40,723 --> 00:19:43,363
He inveigled his
way into their lives.

359
00:19:43,403 --> 00:19:46,043
He became, 'a friend'.

360
00:19:46,083 --> 00:19:47,323
They didn't suspect him.

361
00:19:47,363 --> 00:19:51,123
They didn't think that this man
who was buddying up to them,

362
00:19:51,163 --> 00:19:52,803
could possible be dangerous

363
00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:55,843
and that was part of bowles' mo

364
00:19:55,883 --> 00:19:58,003
that he wasn't...

365
00:19:58,043 --> 00:20:00,243
An evil figure
dressed in a cloak.

366
00:20:00,283 --> 00:20:05,763
He was just this guy who
seemed harmless enough.

367
00:20:05,803 --> 00:20:09,043
Bowles stayed with al
Morris for a few days,

368
00:20:09,083 --> 00:20:12,803
with the promise of doing
some jobs to help him out.

369
00:20:12,843 --> 00:20:16,483
He was supposed to be doing
some work around al's house

370
00:20:16,523 --> 00:20:17,643
that needed to be done.

371
00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:20,483
He needed some
work done in the kitchen

372
00:20:20,523 --> 00:20:22,763
and he needed some
work done on his porch.

373
00:20:22,803 --> 00:20:24,443
He didn't do any
of the work at all.

374
00:20:24,483 --> 00:20:27,203
He laid around all day
drinking and smoking.

375
00:20:29,003 --> 00:20:32,443
This is him appearing to
be somebody who is helpful

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00:20:32,483 --> 00:20:33,643
and who is giving,

377
00:20:33,683 --> 00:20:36,803
and who is going to... to
make the victim's life easier.

378
00:20:36,843 --> 00:20:39,683
So, it's that getting
inside the home

379
00:20:39,723 --> 00:20:41,923
which is the
important thing for me.

380
00:20:41,963 --> 00:20:45,283
He is accessing their...
their private zone,

381
00:20:45,323 --> 00:20:46,723
their safe space.

382
00:20:46,763 --> 00:20:49,923
Then he's violating that
in the worst possible way.

383
00:20:51,003 --> 00:20:54,123
On one occasion, Jackie
had to break up a fight

384
00:20:54,163 --> 00:20:58,443
between al and bowles
in the parking lot of a bar.

385
00:20:58,483 --> 00:20:59,963
He had no idea

386
00:21:00,003 --> 00:21:03,363
that it would be the last
time he'd see his friend alive.

387
00:21:04,843 --> 00:21:08,203
And the next morning
I got up and I called al,

388
00:21:08,243 --> 00:21:11,083
and he has a busy
signal on his phone.

389
00:21:12,203 --> 00:21:15,123
And I called him until
I had to go to town...

390
00:21:16,723 --> 00:21:18,443
And then when I
come back from town,

391
00:21:18,483 --> 00:21:22,163
I called al about three more
times and it was the busy signal.

392
00:21:22,203 --> 00:21:23,923
And I said, "oh, I just...

393
00:21:23,963 --> 00:21:27,123
"I just got to lay down for
a little bit and take a nap."

394
00:21:27,163 --> 00:21:29,563
So, I went over to the
house and I laid down,

395
00:21:29,603 --> 00:21:32,443
and just as soon as I did, they
come knocking at the door saying,

396
00:21:32,483 --> 00:21:33,563
"al's been murdered.

397
00:21:33,603 --> 00:21:34,843
"Al's been murdered."

398
00:21:36,003 --> 00:21:40,443
Jackie immediately rushed
over to al's trailer park home.

399
00:21:42,163 --> 00:21:44,723
There was a crowd
of people in the yard,

400
00:21:44,763 --> 00:21:46,083
the trailer door was open,

401
00:21:46,123 --> 00:21:50,603
there was a bloody hand print
on the door, and I saw his mother.

402
00:21:50,643 --> 00:21:53,803
And she said that she had
went in there and found him

403
00:21:53,843 --> 00:21:55,323
on the kitchen floor,

404
00:21:55,363 --> 00:21:57,883
and it looked like he had
just come out of the shower

405
00:21:57,923 --> 00:21:59,963
and he had had a
towel around his neck.

406
00:22:00,003 --> 00:22:02,883
And she just would
never forget his eyes.

407
00:22:02,923 --> 00:22:06,083
And there was blood
all over the living room

408
00:22:06,123 --> 00:22:10,323
where al had tried to find the
front door of the trailer to get out

409
00:22:10,363 --> 00:22:12,683
but Gary was torturing
him all the way...

410
00:22:15,203 --> 00:22:16,323
Until he died.

411
00:22:18,083 --> 00:22:21,363
Just six days after
arriving in town,

412
00:22:21,403 --> 00:22:24,283
bowles had killed
for a fifth time.

413
00:22:24,323 --> 00:22:27,963
He would eventually
confess to al Morris's murder,

414
00:22:28,003 --> 00:22:30,403
and the fight that led up to it.

415
00:22:31,643 --> 00:22:33,003
He told me about that one.

416
00:22:33,043 --> 00:22:36,723
Al Morris, he wasn't
just a push over.

417
00:22:36,763 --> 00:22:39,283
And Gary thought he was.

418
00:22:39,323 --> 00:22:43,003
And they got in an argument
because they were out,

419
00:22:43,043 --> 00:22:45,883
and al saw him

420
00:22:45,923 --> 00:22:49,123
making motions
towards someone else.

421
00:22:49,163 --> 00:22:52,083
And when they got back
to the trailer, al's trailer,

422
00:22:52,123 --> 00:22:53,963
they were drinking,

423
00:22:54,003 --> 00:22:57,163
and al brought it up,
and they got into a fight.

424
00:22:57,203 --> 00:23:02,083
And according to Gary, he said,
"that guy was whipping my ass.

425
00:23:02,123 --> 00:23:03,483
"I couldn't get him off of me."

426
00:23:04,523 --> 00:23:06,323
And the only way he
could get him off of him

427
00:23:06,363 --> 00:23:08,883
was there was a shotgun nearby.

428
00:23:08,923 --> 00:23:12,123
And Gary said he picked
up the shotgun and shot al.

429
00:23:12,163 --> 00:23:14,563
He said, "that was the only
way I could get him off of me."

430
00:23:15,483 --> 00:23:17,163
In less than ten weeks,

431
00:23:17,203 --> 00:23:21,483
Gary ray bowles had
taken the lives of five men.

432
00:23:21,523 --> 00:23:24,563
Detectives from five
different police departments

433
00:23:24,603 --> 00:23:27,643
were trying to solve
their individual cases.

434
00:23:27,683 --> 00:23:30,563
It would take some
extraordinary detective work

435
00:23:30,603 --> 00:23:33,243
to finally bring
bowles to justice.

436
00:23:33,283 --> 00:23:36,723
But not before he
would kill for a sixth time.

437
00:23:37,923 --> 00:23:40,203
In may 1994,

438
00:23:40,243 --> 00:23:44,403
Gary ray bowles had
killed for a fifth time.

439
00:23:44,443 --> 00:23:48,523
Bowles had murdered al
Morris after winning his trust

440
00:23:48,563 --> 00:23:51,963
and attacking him in
his Nassau county home.

441
00:23:56,003 --> 00:23:58,923
He feeds off other
people's kindness

442
00:23:58,963 --> 00:24:02,963
and other people's willingness
to... to welcome someone

443
00:24:03,003 --> 00:24:04,243
into their home.

444
00:24:04,283 --> 00:24:06,683
And this gives him
immense feelings of power.

445
00:24:06,723 --> 00:24:09,283
I think the home is
this constant theme

446
00:24:09,323 --> 00:24:10,963
that keeps coming up with him.

447
00:24:11,003 --> 00:24:13,923
So, the home is somewhere
where he never felt safe.

448
00:24:13,963 --> 00:24:17,763
The home was somewhere where
he was abused, he was violated.

449
00:24:17,803 --> 00:24:20,163
And now, he's going
into other people's homes,

450
00:24:20,203 --> 00:24:22,403
he's making his way
into other people's lives,

451
00:24:22,443 --> 00:24:24,003
and he's violating them.

452
00:24:25,123 --> 00:24:29,003
Five killings in a
matter of weeks.

453
00:24:30,363 --> 00:24:32,683
It's as if he's absolutely...

454
00:24:33,763 --> 00:24:35,683
On an adrenaline rush

455
00:24:35,723 --> 00:24:38,683
fuelled by no doubt a
certain amount of alcohol

456
00:24:38,723 --> 00:24:43,203
but fuelled also, no question
by genuine blood lust.

457
00:24:45,283 --> 00:24:47,683
He's unrepentant, unremorseful.

458
00:24:50,323 --> 00:24:51,603
But by now...

459
00:24:53,363 --> 00:24:56,403
Some of the police
departments are beginning to see

460
00:24:56,443 --> 00:24:57,803
there might be a pattern here.

461
00:24:59,123 --> 00:25:00,923
Detective John best,

462
00:25:00,963 --> 00:25:03,963
who was investigating the
murder of Milton Bradley

463
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:05,683
in Savannah, Georgia,

464
00:25:05,723 --> 00:25:09,163
had sent out a request to
neighbouring police departments

465
00:25:09,203 --> 00:25:12,163
to see if they had
any similar homicides.

466
00:25:12,203 --> 00:25:16,563
And he soon got a response
from investigators in Nassau county

467
00:25:16,603 --> 00:25:20,123
who were looking
into al Morris's murder.

468
00:25:20,163 --> 00:25:22,483
Two murders of gay men

469
00:25:22,523 --> 00:25:26,603
involving a transient or a
drifter who was a suspect.

470
00:25:26,643 --> 00:25:29,483
These murders occur
right off the i-95 corridor.

471
00:25:29,523 --> 00:25:32,123
These crime scenes
are eerily similar,

472
00:25:32,163 --> 00:25:34,763
even though one is
outside, one is inside.

473
00:25:34,803 --> 00:25:38,443
My crime scene with Milton
Bradley, pockets are turned inside out.

474
00:25:38,483 --> 00:25:40,203
Nassau county crime
scene with al Morris,

475
00:25:40,243 --> 00:25:41,523
pockets are turned inside out.

476
00:25:41,563 --> 00:25:45,603
So, I feel, at this point,
the two are linked.

477
00:25:47,123 --> 00:25:51,123
John showed a composite sketch
of the suspect to the witnesses

478
00:25:51,163 --> 00:25:55,323
who had seen him with Milton
Bradley on the night of his murder.

479
00:25:55,363 --> 00:25:58,323
One of them claimed that he
had been to a convenience store

480
00:25:58,363 --> 00:26:00,923
with bowles the previous day.

481
00:26:00,963 --> 00:26:04,203
Armed with security cam
footage from the store,

482
00:26:04,243 --> 00:26:06,323
John approached
Jackie strickland,

483
00:26:06,363 --> 00:26:09,963
who had met the killer
before his attack on al Morris.

484
00:26:11,203 --> 00:26:15,883
So, I watched the video tape
from that convenience store

485
00:26:15,923 --> 00:26:17,523
for several minutes,

486
00:26:17,563 --> 00:26:21,043
and then the door opened
and then two guys come in.

487
00:26:21,083 --> 00:26:25,803
And one guy went to the counter,
and the other guy was Joey,

488
00:26:25,843 --> 00:26:26,923
who he told me he was,

489
00:26:26,963 --> 00:26:30,683
I recognised him immediately
when he come in the store.

490
00:26:30,723 --> 00:26:33,843
The other guy went and
bought a pack of cigarettes...

491
00:26:33,883 --> 00:26:37,083
But Joey is sitting
there with a woman

492
00:26:37,123 --> 00:26:38,883
who has a baby on her hip

493
00:26:38,923 --> 00:26:41,083
and he's playing with
her little baby girl...

494
00:26:42,243 --> 00:26:43,243
There

495
00:26:43,283 --> 00:26:46,243
and talking about maybe how
cute the baby is and something.

496
00:26:46,283 --> 00:26:49,803
And this guy has just
murdered all these people

497
00:26:49,843 --> 00:26:51,763
and has no
conscience whatsoever.

498
00:26:51,803 --> 00:26:53,643
And that's when
I said, "that's him.

499
00:26:53,683 --> 00:26:54,739
"That's what he looks like.

500
00:26:54,763 --> 00:26:56,563
"That's your guy right there."

501
00:26:58,843 --> 00:27:01,683
So, now we have one suspect

502
00:27:01,723 --> 00:27:03,843
linked to two murders,
in two different states,

503
00:27:03,883 --> 00:27:05,363
with the same circumstances.

504
00:27:05,403 --> 00:27:06,923
Same violent crime scenes.

505
00:27:06,963 --> 00:27:08,563
Pockets turned
inside out on both.

506
00:27:08,603 --> 00:27:11,483
So, now we have
a definitive link.

507
00:27:11,523 --> 00:27:14,283
Two murders, two
states, same suspect.

508
00:27:14,323 --> 00:27:17,923
And then we spoke to the supervisory
agent in charge, Harold Jones.

509
00:27:17,963 --> 00:27:21,123
And I'll never forget Harold
Jones looking at me and saying,

510
00:27:21,163 --> 00:27:23,563
"Johnny, I think you've got
a serial killer on your hands."

511
00:27:24,523 --> 00:27:26,843
FBI agent Harold Jones

512
00:27:26,883 --> 00:27:31,203
sent a request out to see if there
were any more potential victims

513
00:27:31,243 --> 00:27:33,483
that could be
linked to the killer.

514
00:27:33,523 --> 00:27:38,323
And he soon got a hit,
another murder case in Florida,

515
00:27:38,363 --> 00:27:40,403
that had happened back in march.

516
00:27:41,643 --> 00:27:43,683
The Daytona beach
police responded

517
00:27:43,723 --> 00:27:46,523
to special agent
Jones's teletype,

518
00:27:46,563 --> 00:27:49,723
and gave him the name of a suspect
in the murder of John Hardy Roberts.

519
00:27:49,763 --> 00:27:52,403
The name they gave
him was Gary ray bowles.

520
00:27:54,803 --> 00:27:58,083
Finally, investigators
had a name.

521
00:27:58,123 --> 00:28:01,923
Gary ray bowles had
a long list of felonies,

522
00:28:01,963 --> 00:28:04,323
meaning his
fingerprints were on file

523
00:28:04,363 --> 00:28:06,363
from a previous arrest,

524
00:28:06,403 --> 00:28:08,323
these proved to be a match

525
00:28:08,363 --> 00:28:12,283
with the prints found at the
Milton Bradley crime scene.

526
00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:13,923
So, now we have
physical evidence.

527
00:28:13,963 --> 00:28:15,403
We have a palm
print at the scene.

528
00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:18,763
We have video evidence of bowles
being in Savannah with a witness.

529
00:28:18,803 --> 00:28:22,363
That day, I secured a murder
warrant for Gary bowles.

530
00:28:22,403 --> 00:28:27,443
Bowles was added to the FBI's
top ten most wanted fugitives list.

531
00:28:27,483 --> 00:28:30,083
Investigators needed
to track him down.

532
00:28:30,123 --> 00:28:31,323
Fast.

533
00:28:31,363 --> 00:28:33,363
We seen it all over
our local papers,

534
00:28:33,403 --> 00:28:36,723
the news was out and
all of our local news.

535
00:28:36,763 --> 00:28:40,483
The word was getting out
that this guy, Gary ray bowles,

536
00:28:40,523 --> 00:28:41,523
needed to be found.

537
00:28:41,563 --> 00:28:43,283
This is what he looks like.

538
00:28:43,323 --> 00:28:46,483
And he needs to be
picked up off the streets

539
00:28:46,523 --> 00:28:47,923
because he's very dangerous.

540
00:28:49,523 --> 00:28:52,123
Words pretty much
can't define how I felt.

541
00:28:52,163 --> 00:28:55,643
But I was glad that we
have this person identified.

542
00:28:55,683 --> 00:28:59,243
I can tell the Bradley family that
now we know who killed Milton.

543
00:29:00,403 --> 00:29:02,523
Then there's another part
of me that realised now...

544
00:29:03,603 --> 00:29:05,083
Now the hard part starts.

545
00:29:05,123 --> 00:29:07,083
We have to find him.

546
00:29:07,123 --> 00:29:10,723
Bowles was now becoming
infamous across the nation,

547
00:29:10,763 --> 00:29:14,203
and the media had even come
up with a nickname for the killer.

548
00:29:15,643 --> 00:29:18,843
The media started
calling bowles the i-95 killer

549
00:29:18,883 --> 00:29:21,443
because as we found out later,
that was the way he got around.

550
00:29:21,483 --> 00:29:22,923
That's the main highway

551
00:29:22,963 --> 00:29:24,259
on the east coast
of the United States.

552
00:29:24,283 --> 00:29:25,443
That's how he travelled.

553
00:29:26,563 --> 00:29:28,683
I think this transience
is conscious.

554
00:29:28,723 --> 00:29:31,283
It's not something that's
happening by accident

555
00:29:31,323 --> 00:29:33,723
because there's an
awareness amongst serial killers

556
00:29:33,763 --> 00:29:35,603
at this particular point in time

557
00:29:35,643 --> 00:29:38,883
that police systems
perhaps don't always join up

558
00:29:38,923 --> 00:29:40,923
particularly well.

559
00:29:40,963 --> 00:29:44,963
The additional publicity led
to detectives linking bowles

560
00:29:45,003 --> 00:29:46,883
to two further murders,

561
00:29:46,923 --> 00:29:49,963
due to the similarly
chaotic crime scenes,

562
00:29:50,003 --> 00:29:51,843
where the victims had been left

563
00:29:51,883 --> 00:29:54,283
with something
stuffed in their mouths,

564
00:29:54,323 --> 00:29:59,123
David jarman in Maryland
and alverson Carter in Georgia.

565
00:30:00,403 --> 00:30:03,883
After killing five men
in just over nine weeks,

566
00:30:03,923 --> 00:30:06,363
bowles had suddenly stopped.

567
00:30:06,403 --> 00:30:10,123
Nobody knew where the
32-year-old drifter was.

568
00:30:11,283 --> 00:30:14,923
I was very worried
when he was on the run,

569
00:30:14,963 --> 00:30:19,683
because we're sitting out like open
targets on the open highway there,

570
00:30:19,723 --> 00:30:20,819
and I thought that, you know,

571
00:30:20,843 --> 00:30:22,843
he might come back one night

572
00:30:22,883 --> 00:30:25,083
and say, "hey, remember me?

573
00:30:25,123 --> 00:30:26,363
"What'd you tell them?

574
00:30:26,403 --> 00:30:29,523
"Are you the reason that
they all are after me now?"

575
00:30:29,563 --> 00:30:31,003
I just had no idea.

576
00:30:32,803 --> 00:30:35,203
After laying low for six months,

577
00:30:35,243 --> 00:30:38,963
bowles resurfaced in
Jacksonville beach, Florida.

578
00:30:39,003 --> 00:30:42,443
He couldn't resist
killing for a sixth time.

579
00:30:42,483 --> 00:30:46,243
On a winter's morning,
42-year-old Jay hinton

580
00:30:46,283 --> 00:30:49,443
didn't turn up at the flower
shop where he worked.

581
00:30:50,683 --> 00:30:51,843
Well, I came onto the case,

582
00:30:51,883 --> 00:30:53,003
I believe

583
00:30:53,043 --> 00:30:58,803
it was November 20, 1994.

584
00:30:58,843 --> 00:31:01,883
A relative of mr hinton's
called in, and said...

585
00:31:02,923 --> 00:31:04,563
"I believe

586
00:31:04,603 --> 00:31:09,243
"my brother-in-law, my
girlfriend's brother is dead,

587
00:31:09,283 --> 00:31:11,323
"and he's in the trailer."

588
00:31:11,363 --> 00:31:12,723
That type of call.

589
00:31:12,763 --> 00:31:16,443
Uniformed officers were
dispatched out there.

590
00:31:16,483 --> 00:31:21,963
Then we, as homicide, we
were notified, and we responded.

591
00:31:22,003 --> 00:31:26,283
As we went inside, and
we went in very carefully,

592
00:31:26,323 --> 00:31:27,723
and just to speed things up,

593
00:31:27,763 --> 00:31:33,283
we found the deceased individual
covered up with blankets and sheets.

594
00:31:34,363 --> 00:31:38,443
Jay hinton's head had been
struck by a heavy object.

595
00:31:38,483 --> 00:31:42,243
A cinder block was laying
on the bed next to his body.

596
00:31:42,283 --> 00:31:44,363
The murder bore
all the hallmarks

597
00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:48,483
of another brutal,
Gary ray bowles attack.

598
00:31:48,523 --> 00:31:51,563
I think the reason for
this, this extensive violence

599
00:31:51,603 --> 00:31:54,003
is because the
more violent he is,

600
00:31:54,043 --> 00:31:57,043
the more powerful and
the more in control he feels.

601
00:31:57,083 --> 00:32:00,443
During his childhood, he came to
learn that violence was currency.

602
00:32:00,483 --> 00:32:04,883
The more of it you had, the
better, the more powerful you were.

603
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:08,203
So, I think that does explain
that the level of brutality

604
00:32:08,243 --> 00:32:09,723
that we've seen in these cases.

605
00:32:10,843 --> 00:32:15,523
Detective, Joe Collins had
read all the information on bowles

606
00:32:15,563 --> 00:32:16,763
and was certain

607
00:32:16,803 --> 00:32:19,563
that the serial killer
had struck again.

608
00:32:20,923 --> 00:32:22,523
At one particular time,

609
00:32:22,563 --> 00:32:25,363
once we were going
through everything,

610
00:32:25,403 --> 00:32:27,043
there were some key things.

611
00:32:27,083 --> 00:32:30,523
There was a gin bottle,
he liked drinking gin.

612
00:32:30,563 --> 00:32:34,323
There were kool cigarettes,
he liked smoking those.

613
00:32:36,083 --> 00:32:39,323
Some of the things,
the way the victim was,

614
00:32:39,363 --> 00:32:44,643
the way we found Jay
hinton was also a big clue.

615
00:32:44,683 --> 00:32:49,803
And I made mention to
my partner at the time that...

616
00:32:49,843 --> 00:32:53,043
Uh, you know, "hey man, I
think this might be bowles.

617
00:32:53,083 --> 00:32:55,323
"This might be Gary bowles."

618
00:32:55,363 --> 00:32:58,483
But documentation
recovered at the scene

619
00:32:58,523 --> 00:33:01,883
suggested that
someone entirely different

620
00:33:01,923 --> 00:33:05,123
may be involved in the
murder of Jay hinton.

621
00:33:05,163 --> 00:33:10,563
The biggest evidence that we
found was the ameri-force payslip.

622
00:33:10,603 --> 00:33:15,083
The payslip had the name of
Timothy or Tim Whitfield on it.

623
00:33:16,123 --> 00:33:18,683
So, that was, you
know, I would say,

624
00:33:18,723 --> 00:33:23,403
that's probably one of the
best pieces of evidence,

625
00:33:23,443 --> 00:33:26,683
because it gives
us a lead to find out

626
00:33:26,723 --> 00:33:30,203
why Jay hinton, the victim,

627
00:33:30,243 --> 00:33:34,963
had a pay slip belonging
to someone else.

628
00:33:35,003 --> 00:33:38,323
While his heart said
that bowles was the killer,

629
00:33:38,363 --> 00:33:42,363
Joe's head told him
to follow the evidence.

630
00:33:42,403 --> 00:33:44,963
We wanted to know
who Tim Whitfield was.

631
00:33:45,003 --> 00:33:48,643
Don't, you know, haze
the investigation at all.

632
00:33:48,683 --> 00:33:51,203
Don't rush through it
and say, "yup, it's bowles.

633
00:33:51,243 --> 00:33:53,083
"He's using a different name."

634
00:33:53,123 --> 00:33:55,003
We want to know who this guy,

635
00:33:55,043 --> 00:33:57,683
Tim Whitfield, was,
and go from there.

636
00:33:57,723 --> 00:33:58,763
One step at a time.

637
00:33:59,963 --> 00:34:01,963
The hunt was on.

638
00:34:02,003 --> 00:34:05,643
Joe and his team needed
to locate Tim Whitfield

639
00:34:05,683 --> 00:34:10,123
and find out if he truly
was Gary ray bowles,

640
00:34:10,163 --> 00:34:13,323
before the transient
killer moved on,

641
00:34:13,363 --> 00:34:14,963
and murdered again.

642
00:34:16,123 --> 00:34:18,843
In November, 1994,

643
00:34:18,883 --> 00:34:21,483
police in Jacksonville
beach, Florida

644
00:34:21,523 --> 00:34:26,363
were closing the net on
serial killer Gary ray bowles.

645
00:34:26,403 --> 00:34:29,163
Detectives believed that
bowles was responsible

646
00:34:29,203 --> 00:34:32,123
for the death of
42-year-old Jay hinton,

647
00:34:32,163 --> 00:34:35,083
but a payslip left
behind at the crime scene

648
00:34:35,123 --> 00:34:38,283
pointed them towards a
man named Tim Whitfield.

649
00:34:38,323 --> 00:34:40,163
Investigators were certain

650
00:34:40,203 --> 00:34:43,483
that Whitfield and bowles
were one and the same.

651
00:34:44,963 --> 00:34:48,243
Well, there could hardly
be a more obvious clue

652
00:34:48,283 --> 00:34:50,003
for the local police to find.

653
00:34:50,043 --> 00:34:52,003
They look at the pay slip.

654
00:34:52,043 --> 00:34:56,083
They approach the
ameri-force organisation

655
00:34:56,123 --> 00:34:58,843
and ask if Timothy
Whitfield is working there.

656
00:34:58,883 --> 00:35:00,843
They're told yes.

657
00:35:00,883 --> 00:35:03,563
They're then alerted the
moment he turns up for work

658
00:35:03,603 --> 00:35:08,603
and he is arrested for
the murder of hinton.

659
00:35:08,643 --> 00:35:14,283
Detective Joe Collins led the
interrogation of Tim Whitfield.

660
00:35:14,323 --> 00:35:17,043
We, my partner and I,
were asking him questions

661
00:35:17,083 --> 00:35:21,123
about how he knew Jay hinton.

662
00:35:21,163 --> 00:35:26,363
And he would tell us partial
truths, things that we already knew.

663
00:35:26,403 --> 00:35:29,843
But then he would switch
gears, and change up,

664
00:35:29,883 --> 00:35:33,883
and say something
that really wasn't true.

665
00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:39,283
As the interview continued on,
Whitfield grew ever more flustered.

666
00:35:40,843 --> 00:35:44,803
About the second or third
time he started wavering again

667
00:35:44,843 --> 00:35:49,003
and telling us a story,
I stopped him abruptly.

668
00:35:49,043 --> 00:35:51,443
And I said, "I told you.

669
00:35:51,483 --> 00:35:52,523
"Don't lie to me.

670
00:35:52,563 --> 00:35:55,803
"I want you to
tell me the truth."

671
00:35:55,843 --> 00:36:00,123
I was a little stern the way I
said it, my partner was as well.

672
00:36:00,163 --> 00:36:02,723
And apparently,
he didn't like that,

673
00:36:02,763 --> 00:36:06,003
being boxed into a
corner, so to speak.

674
00:36:06,043 --> 00:36:09,923
And he jumped up, almost
got in my face, and said,

675
00:36:09,963 --> 00:36:11,563
"you want to know I really am?

676
00:36:11,603 --> 00:36:13,323
"Want me to tell you the truth?

677
00:36:13,363 --> 00:36:15,643
"I'm Gary ray bowles.
That's who I am.

678
00:36:15,683 --> 00:36:17,963
"Gary ray bowles."

679
00:36:18,003 --> 00:36:19,243
And he sat down.

680
00:36:21,763 --> 00:36:25,323
At that particular time I'm
looking at Gary ray bowles.

681
00:36:26,683 --> 00:36:30,683
And right then and there,
yeah, I knew, this is the guy.

682
00:36:30,723 --> 00:36:34,683
And I just, I remember putting
my hands on his shoulder,

683
00:36:34,723 --> 00:36:37,083
his head was down, and he said,

684
00:36:37,123 --> 00:36:38,403
"I'm glad it's over."

685
00:36:39,563 --> 00:36:43,003
And I just, I said,
"just calm down.

686
00:36:44,243 --> 00:36:47,163
"I'm here and
we'll talk about it."

687
00:36:47,203 --> 00:36:52,283
Gary ray bowles, who had
killed six men in just eight months,

688
00:36:52,323 --> 00:36:54,523
was finally in custody.

689
00:36:54,563 --> 00:36:57,803
He would never be free again.

690
00:36:57,843 --> 00:36:59,603
Well, it was an
exciting feeling.

691
00:36:59,643 --> 00:37:02,763
I'm not going to say it was a
jump for joy, or something like that,

692
00:37:02,803 --> 00:37:07,043
but it was like, "wow, we
really do have this guy."

693
00:37:07,083 --> 00:37:10,803
And I said, "can you prove it?"

694
00:37:10,843 --> 00:37:12,683
And he goes,
"yeah, I can prove it."

695
00:37:12,723 --> 00:37:14,763
And he pulled out a wallet.

696
00:37:14,803 --> 00:37:20,323
And he pulled out Tim
Whitfield's ID, social security card,

697
00:37:20,363 --> 00:37:23,683
he goes, "this is the
ID I stole from the guy

698
00:37:23,723 --> 00:37:26,843
"I killed in Nassau county."

699
00:37:28,203 --> 00:37:30,763
And I'm like, "ok, he just
admitted to another murder.

700
00:37:30,803 --> 00:37:34,203
"But I've got to get
my murder down.

701
00:37:34,243 --> 00:37:37,403
"We have to worry
about our murder."

702
00:37:37,443 --> 00:37:41,283
Bowles admitted to
doctoring al Morris's ID card

703
00:37:41,323 --> 00:37:44,403
after murdering him
in Nassau county.

704
00:37:44,443 --> 00:37:49,043
Bowles then went into detail
about how he had killed Jay hinton.

705
00:37:49,083 --> 00:37:53,123
He told the detectives that they
had fallen out over a mutual friend

706
00:37:53,163 --> 00:37:57,323
and Jay had told bowles
to get out of his house.

707
00:37:57,363 --> 00:37:59,603
And the more he thought about

708
00:37:59,643 --> 00:38:01,083
what Jay told him,

709
00:38:01,123 --> 00:38:03,003
the madder he got.

710
00:38:03,043 --> 00:38:06,163
So, he went outside
and picked up

711
00:38:06,203 --> 00:38:11,563
a square concrete
levelling block.

712
00:38:11,603 --> 00:38:15,363
It weighs approximately
40 pounds or something.

713
00:38:15,403 --> 00:38:18,403
He walked into the bedroom
where Jay was sleeping,

714
00:38:18,443 --> 00:38:21,283
and dropped the
block on Jay's head.

715
00:38:21,323 --> 00:38:23,203
It did not kill Jay.

716
00:38:23,243 --> 00:38:26,683
They struggled with
each other back and forth.

717
00:38:26,723 --> 00:38:30,403
And Gary finally overwhelmed Jay
because he'd been hit in the head,

718
00:38:30,443 --> 00:38:31,723
it cracked his skull.

719
00:38:33,083 --> 00:38:34,803
And he strangled him,

720
00:38:34,843 --> 00:38:35,883
and then he stuffed,

721
00:38:35,923 --> 00:38:40,043
I believe it was a maroon
washrag down his throat,

722
00:38:40,083 --> 00:38:42,763
and some toilet
papers as well...

723
00:38:43,883 --> 00:38:44,963
And wrapped him up.

724
00:38:46,723 --> 00:38:48,323
It is one of the most...

725
00:38:50,363 --> 00:38:54,283
Horrifying facts about bowles

726
00:38:54,323 --> 00:38:57,643
is that in the end I think
he came to glory in it.

727
00:38:57,683 --> 00:38:59,363
Glory in his killings.

728
00:38:59,403 --> 00:39:00,603
He came to...

729
00:39:02,483 --> 00:39:04,363
Wear them around him like a...

730
00:39:06,003 --> 00:39:07,763
A coat.

731
00:39:07,803 --> 00:39:11,363
I am the i-95 killer and
I will get away with it.

732
00:39:11,403 --> 00:39:14,243
I have no doubt whatever that
he would have gone on killing

733
00:39:14,283 --> 00:39:15,883
remorselessly

734
00:39:15,923 --> 00:39:19,243
had he not been caught
in November 1994.

735
00:39:19,283 --> 00:39:23,643
After confessing to the murders
of Jay hinton and al Morris,

736
00:39:23,683 --> 00:39:27,083
bowles met with detectives
in Savannah, Georgia

737
00:39:27,123 --> 00:39:30,483
to discuss the
Milton Bradley case.

738
00:39:30,523 --> 00:39:32,843
Bowles' confessed pretty
much chronologically

739
00:39:32,883 --> 00:39:34,003
and bowles' confessed

740
00:39:34,043 --> 00:39:37,603
it would depend on which police
agency or law enforcement agency

741
00:39:37,643 --> 00:39:38,963
was interviewing
him at the time.

742
00:39:40,083 --> 00:39:43,123
Bowles confessed first to
the Jacksonville detectives

743
00:39:43,163 --> 00:39:44,603
about the murder of Jay hinton.

744
00:39:44,643 --> 00:39:47,323
Next, Dennis Reagan
and I interviewed him

745
00:39:47,363 --> 00:39:49,523
about the Milton Bradley murder

746
00:39:49,563 --> 00:39:51,603
and while we were
interviewing bowles

747
00:39:51,643 --> 00:39:53,963
about the murder
of Milton Bradley,

748
00:39:54,003 --> 00:39:56,083
he confessed to the
murder of alverson Carter.

749
00:39:57,603 --> 00:39:59,563
Bowles would eventually confess

750
00:39:59,603 --> 00:40:03,523
to the murders of John
Roberts and David jarman too,

751
00:40:03,563 --> 00:40:07,683
meaning he had admitted
to killing all six of his victims.

752
00:40:07,723 --> 00:40:10,043
Detectives were still fascinated

753
00:40:10,083 --> 00:40:13,043
by his signature calling card.

754
00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:16,763
Gary told me, because I
wanted to know why he put things,

755
00:40:16,803 --> 00:40:21,163
the rags, toilet paper,
washcloths, whatever,

756
00:40:21,203 --> 00:40:22,243
in someone's throat,

757
00:40:22,283 --> 00:40:24,163
"why did you do that?"

758
00:40:24,203 --> 00:40:26,643
And he told... Gary told
me, he goes, "I don't know,"

759
00:40:26,683 --> 00:40:28,323
he goes, "I just
didn't want to hear...

760
00:40:29,763 --> 00:40:32,323
"The sounds coming
out of their mouth."

761
00:40:32,363 --> 00:40:34,123
That's what he told me.

762
00:40:34,163 --> 00:40:37,803
And I said, "well, you think you
did it to make sure they were dead?"

763
00:40:37,843 --> 00:40:40,763
He goes, "no, I just
didn't want to hear them."

764
00:40:42,323 --> 00:40:44,763
I think this was something
that was symbolic.

765
00:40:44,803 --> 00:40:46,723
So, it's not only silencing them

766
00:40:46,763 --> 00:40:48,603
in terms of stopping
them from screaming

767
00:40:48,643 --> 00:40:49,883
when he's killing them.

768
00:40:49,923 --> 00:40:52,963
It's also silencing
them after their deaths.

769
00:40:53,003 --> 00:40:56,043
He's saying to these men,
"you don't have a voice.

770
00:40:56,083 --> 00:40:57,963
"Your voice is
not worth hearing."

771
00:40:58,003 --> 00:41:01,203
This is all coming from
those feelings of humiliation

772
00:41:01,243 --> 00:41:04,283
and feelings of shame
that he has within himself.

773
00:41:04,323 --> 00:41:07,883
So, he is essentially
taking this out on his victims

774
00:41:07,923 --> 00:41:09,803
by shutting them up.

775
00:41:09,843 --> 00:41:13,283
Although, he had
admitted to all six murders,

776
00:41:13,323 --> 00:41:17,963
bowles was originally charged
with just one, Jay hinton.

777
00:41:18,003 --> 00:41:21,403
If found guilty of
first-degree murder in Florida,

778
00:41:21,443 --> 00:41:25,683
bowles would be sentenced to
death in spite of the other cases.

779
00:41:25,723 --> 00:41:28,723
There's no point, as far as
the authorities are concerned,

780
00:41:28,763 --> 00:41:31,963
in lumping all the
other crimes together.

781
00:41:32,003 --> 00:41:34,763
They have him
absolutely stone cold

782
00:41:34,803 --> 00:41:37,483
on the killing of
hinton in his trailer

783
00:41:37,523 --> 00:41:41,243
so they proceed on that
count alone to begin with.

784
00:41:42,323 --> 00:41:44,243
By 1999,

785
00:41:44,283 --> 00:41:46,763
Gary bowles had been
sentenced to death

786
00:41:46,803 --> 00:41:49,803
for the murders of
all his Florida victims,

787
00:41:49,843 --> 00:41:53,403
John Roberts, al
Morris and Jay hinton.

788
00:41:53,443 --> 00:41:57,363
He would spend the next 20
years of his life on death row.

789
00:41:58,723 --> 00:42:03,403
Like so many prisoners on
death row in the United States,

790
00:42:03,443 --> 00:42:04,843
appeal after appeal...

791
00:42:05,923 --> 00:42:07,923
Legal process
after legal process

792
00:42:07,963 --> 00:42:10,083
grinds on incessantly.

793
00:42:11,363 --> 00:42:13,923
It's not until August 2019...

794
00:42:15,523 --> 00:42:18,603
That he is finally executed
by lethal injection in Florida.

795
00:42:19,923 --> 00:42:25,323
Gary ray bowles was 57 years
old when he was executed.

796
00:42:25,363 --> 00:42:28,803
He always claimed that
resentment from his childhood

797
00:42:28,843 --> 00:42:33,003
and the abortion of his
girlfriend's baby in 1985,

798
00:42:33,043 --> 00:42:35,243
led him to the fits of rage

799
00:42:35,283 --> 00:42:38,563
that resulted in the
deaths of six innocent men.

800
00:42:40,043 --> 00:42:44,083
His blaming his childhood
for an excuse to kill.

801
00:42:44,123 --> 00:42:47,043
I mean, he killed six times, then
his reason is that he snapped.

802
00:42:47,083 --> 00:42:48,883
Really, you snapped six times?

803
00:42:48,923 --> 00:42:50,283
There was no remorse.

804
00:42:50,323 --> 00:42:52,283
The last part of that,

805
00:42:52,323 --> 00:42:56,043
if... if... if you had to go
to these crime scenes,

806
00:42:56,083 --> 00:42:59,123
or review the photos, but
look at these crime scenes.

807
00:42:59,163 --> 00:43:01,283
The amount of overkill,
the amount of force,

808
00:43:01,323 --> 00:43:03,563
the amount that was
used was just... just...

809
00:43:05,003 --> 00:43:06,123
Completely over the top.

810
00:43:06,163 --> 00:43:08,683
It was... it was way
more than... than needed

811
00:43:08,723 --> 00:43:11,163
to just... just kill somebody.

812
00:43:11,203 --> 00:43:15,603
After the first one
with John Roberts,

813
00:43:15,643 --> 00:43:20,483
I can understand the
anger which would drive it.

814
00:43:20,523 --> 00:43:23,883
But then afterwards, you
know what you're doing.

815
00:43:23,923 --> 00:43:25,923
And that's where
the evil comes in.

816
00:43:25,963 --> 00:43:29,083
It's like a dog, as
they say, canines...

817
00:43:30,443 --> 00:43:34,003
Once they bite
somebody the first time,

818
00:43:34,043 --> 00:43:36,043
it becomes a whole lot easier.

819
00:43:36,083 --> 00:43:38,323
In other words,
the taste of blood.

820
00:43:38,363 --> 00:43:40,483
Humans are almost the same way.

821
00:43:40,523 --> 00:43:44,043
I just think after the first one,
it became a little bit easier.

822
00:43:44,083 --> 00:43:47,643
He'd become mad, and he
wasn't able to hold back the temper.

823
00:43:52,843 --> 00:43:56,483
Bowles weaselled his way
into the lives of his victims,

824
00:43:56,523 --> 00:43:58,483
be it for one night or longer,

825
00:43:58,523 --> 00:44:01,843
before killing them in
apparent outbursts of rage.

826
00:44:01,883 --> 00:44:05,283
No matter what caused
him to act this way,

827
00:44:05,323 --> 00:44:08,323
nothing can excuse
the murder of six men,

828
00:44:08,363 --> 00:44:12,043
who showed him nothing
but kindness and hospitality

829
00:44:12,083 --> 00:44:16,323
which is why Gary ray bowles
will always be remembered

830
00:44:16,363 --> 00:44:19,643
as one of the world's
most evil killers.

831
00:44:19,683 --> 00:44:21,803
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832
00:44:45,043 --> 00:44:48,043
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