Bobby Jack Fowler, (June 12, 1939 – May 2006) was an American serial killer and rapist active in the United States and Canada. He died in prison of lung cancer during a 16-year sentence following a conviction for rape, kidnapping and attempted rape in Newport, Oregon, in 1996 (for an attack that took place in 1995).
He was also suspected of four local murders in Lincoln County, Oregon and the Highway of Tears murders in British Columbia.
Fowler is known to have committed murders as early as 1973, and possibly as early as 1969. The murders continued until he was apprehended in 1995.
Fowler is a suspect in the Highway of Tears murders. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victims. Fowler is also strongly suspected to have killed both Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973.
The RCMP believe that he may have also killed as many as ten of the other victims, and possibly as many as 20. Canadian victims include mostly First Nation Canadian girls reported missing from Highway 16, a 724 KM roadway dubbed the 'Highway of Tears' due to the high number of murders and disappearances of young women beginning in 1970s: Lana Derrick, 19, Nicole Hoar, 25, Alicia Germaine, 15, Aielah Saric-Auger, 14, her body was found on 10 February 10 2006 in a ditch along Highway 16 approximately 15 kilometers East of Prince George Tamara Chipman, 22, Roxanne Thiara, 15, Ramona Wilson, 16, Delphine Nikal, 16, Cicilia Anne Nikal, Monica Ignas, 15, whose partially nude body was found in a gravel pit on April 6, 1975 strangled and Alberta Wiliams, 24 whose body found in September 1989.
May 3, 1992, just after midnight, around 1:00 a.m. Sheila Swanson, 19 and Melissa Sanders, 17 were last seen making a call from a payphone near the Beverly Beach State Park where they had been camping. Their bodies were later discovered on October 10, 1992, by hunters in a wooded area near Eddyville, Oregon.
January 28, 1995 just after midnight, around 1:00 a.m. Jennifer Esson, 16 and Kara Leas, 16 are last seen walking on NW 56th Street in Newport, Oregon walking toward Highway 101 near Moolack Beach after leaving a friends house. Their strangled bodies were later discovered on February 15, 1995, by loggers in a wooded area, covered up with brush.
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2. Fowler in 1972.
He was also suspected of four local murders in Lincoln County, Oregon and the Highway of Tears murders in British Columbia.
Fowler is known to have committed murders as early as 1973, and possibly as early as 1969. The murders continued until he was apprehended in 1995.
Fowler is a suspect in the Highway of Tears murders. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victims. Fowler is also strongly suspected to have killed both Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973.
The RCMP believe that he may have also killed as many as ten of the other victims, and possibly as many as 20. Canadian victims include mostly First Nation Canadian girls reported missing from Highway 16, a 724 KM roadway dubbed the 'Highway of Tears' due to the high number of murders and disappearances of young women beginning in 1970s: Lana Derrick, 19, Nicole Hoar, 25, Alicia Germaine, 15, Aielah Saric-Auger, 14, her body was found on 10 February 10 2006 in a ditch along Highway 16 approximately 15 kilometers East of Prince George Tamara Chipman, 22, Roxanne Thiara, 15, Ramona Wilson, 16, Delphine Nikal, 16, Cicilia Anne Nikal, Monica Ignas, 15, whose partially nude body was found in a gravel pit on April 6, 1975 strangled and Alberta Wiliams, 24 whose body found in September 1989.
May 3, 1992, just after midnight, around 1:00 a.m. Sheila Swanson, 19 and Melissa Sanders, 17 were last seen making a call from a payphone near the Beverly Beach State Park where they had been camping. Their bodies were later discovered on October 10, 1992, by hunters in a wooded area near Eddyville, Oregon.
January 28, 1995 just after midnight, around 1:00 a.m. Jennifer Esson, 16 and Kara Leas, 16 are last seen walking on NW 56th Street in Newport, Oregon walking toward Highway 101 near Moolack Beach after leaving a friends house. Their strangled bodies were later discovered on February 15, 1995, by loggers in a wooded area, covered up with brush.
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2. Fowler in 1972.