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10-04-2008, 01:50 PM
TOLEDO, Ohio — Their paths crossed at Sunday dinner, a police officer and a man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, when the story of a girl's disappearance 40 years ago unfolded.
Larry Adams told Officer Mike McGee about his 14-year-old daughter, Eileen, who was reported missing in 1967:
She boarded a city bus to visit her sister the week before Christmas and never returned. Six weeks later, her body was found near Monroe, Mich., sexually assaulted and strangled. She had been tied up with telephone and drapery cords. A nail had been driven into her head.
"I could tell by looking at this guy's face that he believed what he was telling me," McGee recalled of his chance meeting two years ago with Adams at McGee's in-laws' home. Adams had been invited along with other residents of a nursing home.
McGee got his department's cold-case squad on the case. On Thursday, investigators got a break when a suspect years ago, drifter Robert Bowman, surfaced in Southern California riding a bicycle.
Bowman, 72, will face extradition to Ohio on Monday, where authorities want him to face charges in the kidnapping and killing of Eileen Adams.
More at link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432623,00.html)
Thanks adnoid for emailing this great story to me!
WAY TO GO! McGee believed this nursing home patient and pulled his dept together and solved this cold case! WOW! This is AWESOME!:clap::clap::clap::clap::woohoo:
Larry Adams told Officer Mike McGee about his 14-year-old daughter, Eileen, who was reported missing in 1967:
She boarded a city bus to visit her sister the week before Christmas and never returned. Six weeks later, her body was found near Monroe, Mich., sexually assaulted and strangled. She had been tied up with telephone and drapery cords. A nail had been driven into her head.
"I could tell by looking at this guy's face that he believed what he was telling me," McGee recalled of his chance meeting two years ago with Adams at McGee's in-laws' home. Adams had been invited along with other residents of a nursing home.
McGee got his department's cold-case squad on the case. On Thursday, investigators got a break when a suspect years ago, drifter Robert Bowman, surfaced in Southern California riding a bicycle.
Bowman, 72, will face extradition to Ohio on Monday, where authorities want him to face charges in the kidnapping and killing of Eileen Adams.
More at link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432623,00.html)
Thanks adnoid for emailing this great story to me!
WAY TO GO! McGee believed this nursing home patient and pulled his dept together and solved this cold case! WOW! This is AWESOME!:clap::clap::clap::clap::woohoo: