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38 years later, Victoria killer faces murder charge in U.S.
Sarah Petrescu / Times Colonist
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
After nearly four decades in a B.C. prison for the brutal murder of a young Victoria mother, Tommy Ross Jr. faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of a Port Angeles woman.
Ross, 58, an American citizen, was released on full parole and deported to the United States last week. He was promptly arrested at the border.
The Washington state woman was killed a few weeks before Ross arrived in Victoria in 1978 after being extradited from the U.S. to face charges in the death of Janice Aili Forbes, who was found dead in her Victoria apartment.
[...]
“It’s a pretty gruesome, really sadistic case.”
Investigators said the Canadian and U.S. murders are eerily similar.
$1.5 million bail set for man accused of 1978 Port Angeles murder
ROB OLLIKAINEN Thu Nov 17th, 2016
PORT ANGELES — Bail was set at $1.5 million Wednesday for a Los Angeles man accused of killing a Port Angeles woman more than 38 years ago.
Tommy J. Ross Jr., 58, was being held Wednesday in the Clallam County jail for investigation of the 1978 murder of 20-year-old Janet Bowcutt.
He will be arraigned Dec. 2.
Port Angeles police said Ross strangled Bowcutt to death in her apartment in April 1978.
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According to the affidavit for probable cause, Bowcutt’s mother reported that her daughter would not come to the door and that she could hear Bowcutt’s infant son crying inside an apartment at 615 W. Eighth St. on April 24, 1978.
Officers kicked the door open and discovered a deceased Bowcutt on her stomach, fully clothed, with her hands and feet bound together.
[...]
In 1988, Port Angeles police and former Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney David Bruneau interviewed Ross at a Canadian prison in Saskatchewan, court papers said.
During that interview, Ross admitted that he killed Bowcutt; two other females in Anaheim, Calif.; and another female in Los Angeles, Arand wrote in his report.
“There are no convictions down in California,” Kelly told Rohrer.
*Thank you to WS member Thyme for bringing this to our attention*
Sarah Petrescu / Times Colonist
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
After nearly four decades in a B.C. prison for the brutal murder of a young Victoria mother, Tommy Ross Jr. faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of a Port Angeles woman.
Ross, 58, an American citizen, was released on full parole and deported to the United States last week. He was promptly arrested at the border.
The Washington state woman was killed a few weeks before Ross arrived in Victoria in 1978 after being extradited from the U.S. to face charges in the death of Janice Aili Forbes, who was found dead in her Victoria apartment.
[...]
“It’s a pretty gruesome, really sadistic case.”
Investigators said the Canadian and U.S. murders are eerily similar.
$1.5 million bail set for man accused of 1978 Port Angeles murder
ROB OLLIKAINEN Thu Nov 17th, 2016
PORT ANGELES — Bail was set at $1.5 million Wednesday for a Los Angeles man accused of killing a Port Angeles woman more than 38 years ago.
Tommy J. Ross Jr., 58, was being held Wednesday in the Clallam County jail for investigation of the 1978 murder of 20-year-old Janet Bowcutt.
He will be arraigned Dec. 2.
Port Angeles police said Ross strangled Bowcutt to death in her apartment in April 1978.
[...]
According to the affidavit for probable cause, Bowcutt’s mother reported that her daughter would not come to the door and that she could hear Bowcutt’s infant son crying inside an apartment at 615 W. Eighth St. on April 24, 1978.
Officers kicked the door open and discovered a deceased Bowcutt on her stomach, fully clothed, with her hands and feet bound together.
[...]
In 1988, Port Angeles police and former Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney David Bruneau interviewed Ross at a Canadian prison in Saskatchewan, court papers said.
During that interview, Ross admitted that he killed Bowcutt; two other females in Anaheim, Calif.; and another female in Los Angeles, Arand wrote in his report.
“There are no convictions down in California,” Kelly told Rohrer.
*Thank you to WS member Thyme for bringing this to our attention*
