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Did you know Bobby Fowler? Police looking for any information about man who lived here in the ‘70s DELYNDA PILON newsroom@pgfreepress.com
Bobby Jack Fowler murdered 16-yearold Colleen MacMillen, a girl whose name was listed among the 13 unsolved homicide victims the E-Pana task force was formed to investigate. Named among the Highway of Tears victims, MacMillen, who lived in Lac la Hache, planned to hitchhike to a friend’s house on Aug. 9, 1974. She walked up to Hwy. 97, and was never seen alive again. Her body was found 46 kilometres south by a logging road. With the expanding precision of forensic science, DNA evidence, preserved over the years by the RCMP, was tested in 2012. A hit with CODIS proved that Fowler, who died in an Oregon prison in 2006, was responsible for her murder. Though he has been eliminated in eight of the 13 homicides and five missing women cases E-PANA is investigating, officers believe he may be responsible for other murders, in particular the murders of 19-year-old Gale Weys, who was last seen hitchhiking from Clearwater on Oct. 16, 1973 and whose body was found six months later, and 19-year-old Kamloops resident, Pamela Darlington, whose body was found in Pioneer Park on Nov. 7, 1973. He also remains a suspect in the murder of Ramona Wilson, who was last seen alive in June of 1994. Her body was found in April, 1995. Wilson’s family, including her mother, attended a press conference in Prince George held by E-PANA investigators on Wednesday. Her daughter stood and asked whether Ramona was one of the eight murders Fowler was eliminated from as a suspect. “Ramona has not been eliminated,” Insp. Gary Shinkaruk, officer in charge of B.C. RCMP major crime special projects
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RCMP poster of murder victim Pamela Darlington and Bobby Fowler, the man police say is linked to her death and others in the Interior. unit, said. “We are looking at Fowler with Ramona’s case in mind.” A violent man who bounced in and out of American prisons for a variety of crimes, Fowler lived in the Prince George area at times. A labourer and roofer who took odd jobs, he worked for a time for Happy’s Roofing in 1974.
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Police are asking anyone who worked girls gone missing and murdered. with or had contact with Fowler at any “There are many unsolved killings of time to contact them. young girls everywhere he went,” he Tracking Fowler’s movements is impor- said. tant to the investigation. Shinkaruk said Fowler was convicted in Newport, Orewithin the timeline they have, when they gon for a 1995 violent attack against a can pinpoint exactly where Fowler was and when he was there, there are cases of turn to PAGE A2
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