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Robert Bowman was only convicted of the murder of one young girl, but it is more than likely that he abducted, tortured, and murdered many more in his years of freedom before he was eventually caught, tried, and convicted. He is currently imprisoned for life in Ohio.

He lived in Toledo, Ohio, in California, and in Florida - and probably other states, as well as traveled through many more.

Perhaps a study of this monster could help other unsolved, cold cases and missing persons cases. Bowman is a true psychopath with no feeling whatsoever for any of his victims.

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Cold-case killer: Robert Bowman is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 14-year-old Eileen Adams in 1967

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Mugshot: This is a police photo of Bowman from 1962 - five years before the killing.

LINK:

Robert Bowman sentenced to life for 1967 murder of Eileen Adams, 14 | Daily Mail Online


The case Bowman was convicted of is that of a 14-year-old girl named Eileen Marie Adams, who was abducted in Toledo, in December 1967 and kept for some time tied in a cellar, tortured, then murdered and her body dumped in Michigan, just south of Ann Arbor on Route 23.

In 1969, some investigators were trying to link her case to that of seven other murders, thought to be the work of a single serial killer, or group of killers. But Eileen's murder was never officially linked to the Ann Arbor Co-ed (Michigan) Murders and it remained cold for decades.


Here are some links, including a separate thread on Eileen's case here on Websleuths:


LINKS:

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EILEEN ADAMS - 14 yo - (1967) Toledo OH

www.justice4caylee.org/t17006-eileen-adams-14-yo-1967-toledo-oh

Suspect in 1967 killing denies snatching Ohio girl Posted 10/26/2011 2:50 PM ET ... schoolgirl in 1967 and dumping her body in Michigan testified Wednesday there ... has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Eileen Adams, a Toledo high ... Bowman said, according to the Associated Press, but 'I'm not responsible for .

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Man who sexually assaulted, brutally murdered girl he ...
articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-29/news/30337867_1_robert-bowman-eileen-ad..
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Oct 29, 2011 ... TOLEDO, Ohio - A man accused of snatching a teenager on her way home from school in 1967 and ... Robert Bowman during trial for the 1967 killing of Eileen Adams in Toledo, Ohio. ... But "I'm not responsible for that. ... back of her head before her body was dumped in southern Michigan, prosecutors said.

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AMW | Fugitives | Robert Bowman | Case
www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=44921

Nov 24, 2008 ... Since 1967, Ohio cops say Robert Bowman has literally gotten away with ... rape and murder of 14-year-old Eileen Adams in Toledo, Ohio some 40 years ago, ... Then, she says, he made her help dump the body in a farmer's field in Michigan. ... They went and interviewed him about Eileen Adams' murder.

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Eileen Adams Murder | Chilling murder case heats up 40 years ...
articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/21/news/adna-forgotten21

Jan 21, 2007 ... The drifter was Robert Bowman, suspected of killing 14-year-old Eileen Adams in 1967. Her body, discovered just outside Toledo, was ...

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Arrest near in unsolved 1967 murder of Eileen Adams - id 3287 ...

www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/27/3287

Arrest near in unsolved 1967 murder of Eileen Adams - The Blade reports ... Eileen Adams, 13, of Toledo, Ohio, was kidnapped in December, 1967, and ... coming from another room in the basement (I'm thinking maybe a dry cellar ...). ... the poor little girl's body off the side of the road in southern Michigan.

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Eileen Adams Murder 1967

csafd.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=drusjodin&action=print&thread=84

General » Repeat Offenders » Eileen Adams Murder 1967 ... Eileen Adams, 14, a freshman at Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio vanishes just one week before Christmas, abducted when she ... Then, she says, he made her help dump the body in a farmer's field in Michigan. .... But “I'm not responsible for that.


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Arrest of an "AMW"fugitive Robert Bowman for 1967 murder of

helpfindthemissing.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-7934.html -

Cop's Chance Meeting Leads to Arrest in 1967 Murder ... TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A chance meeting two years ago between a police officer and a man whose ... on Monday where authorities want him to face charges in the kidnapping and killing of Eileen Adams. ... I'm so glad they finally caught this guy.

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Twice Cold Case Eileen Adams, 14 - Page 2 - Websleuths Crime ...

www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45553&page=2

I'm too young to have been around when any of this happened, but it's just ... We know that he murdered Eileen and kept her alive for at least 2 weeks chained in his basement. ... Ohio, Nevada, Florida, California, DC, New York, Kansas and Michigan. .... Toledo Police Looking for Suspect in 1967 Murder ...

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Bowman Murder Trial & verdict(Cold Ohio Case)

mockforums.net/thread-6272.html

Eileen Adams, a freshman in high school, was abducted from Toledo ... Her frozen body was found in a field in Whiteford Township, Michigan on January 30, 1968.
 
I doubt this guy is limited to one victim. Scary kind of guy.
 
After reading this article I would have no doubts that this man has many victims. At least he is locked up now where he cant hurt anyone else. What a whack job.
 
Bowman's known crimes might make him a potential suspect as the Santa Rosa Hitch hiker killer of the early 1970's.

He targeted young teen aged girls and liked to tie them up and torture them, much like some of the victims in Santa Rosa.
 
In December 1967, Eileen Adams, a 14-year-old girl from Sylvania, Ohio, was a freshman at Central Catholic High School in Toledo. Each afternoon, Eileen would take a city bus from Central to a bus stop several blocks from her older sister’s West Toledo home off of Sylvania Avenue.

One of Eileen’s classmates rode on the same bus home with her each day, although the stop at which the other Central student would exit the bus was several blocks prior to Eileen’s stop. Eileen’s father would later pick her up at her sister’s home on his commute home from work. On the afternoon of December 18, 1967, Eileen got off the bus along Sylvania Avenue at her usual bus stop. However, Eileen never arrived at her sister’s home. Eileen disappeared along the short walk from the drop-off site to her sister’s nearby home.

Following her disappearance, Eileen’s panicked family notified the Toledo Police Department. Eileen remained missing and her fate unknown for approximately five weeks. At the end of January 1968, a Michigan hunter discovered her brutally murdered body in a rural wooded area of Monroe County, Michigan.

Eileen’s body was recovered wrapped in a bed sheet and placed inside of a rolled up rug. Significantly, a cord was wrapped around her feet, running around her neck so as to form a “death tie” designed to strangle her if she attempted to straighten her 5. legs. In addition, she had been struck in the head repeatedly with a hammer to such a degree of force that her skull was split. White dog hair and human DNA evidence was recovered from the body. Notably, no one in Eileen’s family owned a dog.

The initial police investigation into Eileen’s murder failed to provide any productive leads or suspects. The case eventually became an unsolved, cold case. However, approximately 15 years later, in December of 1981, a former West Toledo resident named Margaret Bowman voluntarily appeared at the Toledo Police Department advising that she possessed vital information about the unsolved murder.

Bowman advised the police that she had previously been married to Robert Bowman. She went on to reveal that at the time of the 1967 murder, the couple resided with their white dog in a home along Sylvania Avenue in West Toledo in close proximity to where the victim went missing. The Bowman home was located on the route the victim walked daily from her bus drop off point to her sister’s nearby home.

Significantly, Margaret Bowman disclosed that in December of 1967, while working around the home that she shared with appellant, she began hearing muffled noises coming from the fruit cellar in the basement. She investigated the strange noises and went inside the cellar. Once inside, she discovered an unknown teenage girl, later determined to be the victim, hanging from the cellar wall with her “arms stretched out like Jesus.” Eileen was still alive at this point but could not speak because her mouth was taped shut. Margaret conceded that she did not rescue the girl who she discovered being held captive in her home.

After seeing the girl restrained in the cellar, Margaret screamed and ran upstairs. Once upstairs, Margaret was confronted by her husband, Robert Bowman, who noxiously screamed at Margaret that she was “getting in his business” and “now he had to kill her [the victim].” Appellant immediately proceeded down into the basement where the victim was being held and turned a radio up extremely loud. Eileen was murdered with multiple hammer blows to the head.

Upon emerging from the basement, Bowman made Margaret drive their car north, going into Southern Michigan. In Michigan, Bowman removed the body from the trunk and dumped it in a rural wooded area. He threatened to kill Margaret and their baby if she revealed these events to anyone. The body was discovered by a hunter approximately five weeks later.

Margaret complied with appellant’s threats against her and remained silent for roughly 15 years. Margaret subsequently left appellant in 1978. She returned to Toledo and in 1981 she reported the above-described 1967 events that she had witnessed in her home involving appellant to the Toledo Police Department.

After Margaret’s 1981 revelations, the Toledo Police Department began a search for Robert Bowman. He was ultimately located in a former restaurant in Florida. Bowman was taken to a police station where he was questioned about the unsolved 1967 Toledo murder.

Significantly, in the restaurant where Bowman was discovered, the detectives observed a Spiderman doll hung upside down, with its hands and feet bound, 7. and a small nail driven through the front of its head. The doll was arranged in the precise manner in which Eileen Adams was bound and killed in Toledo in 1967.

Bowman revealingly advised the officers to take special note of the hands and feet of the doll during the discussions of Eileen’s murder. In addition, appellant conceded to having a white dog living in his home at the time of Eileen’s disappearance and murder. Nevertheless, at this juncture, it was determined that there was not enough evidence to arrest and prosecute appellant. The case remained officially unsolved for another twenty-five years.

In 2006, the Toledo Police Department again reopened the case. Given interim advancements in DNA technology, detectives were now able to test the semen recovered from Eileen’s underwear. Additional comparative DNA was voluntarily obtained from Margaret Bowman and her child. The testing established that appellant’s DNA matched the semen found in the victim’s underwear worn at the time of the killing. The likelihood of this match was one in 4,158,000.

On October 31, 2008, based upon the newly established DNA evidence, appellant was indicted on one count of murder in the first degree, in violation of R.C. 2901.01, for the unsolved 1967 murder of Eileen Adams.

On November 26, 2008, appellant was referred for an evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial. Dr. Charlene Cassel performed the first evaluation of appellant. Cassel determined that appellant was capable of understanding 8. the nature and objective of the proceedings against him. Based on Cassel’s report, the trial court found appellant competent to stand trial.

On January 18, 2011, the trial court referred appellant for a second competency evaluation by Dr. Wayne Graves. Graves likewise concluded that appellant was capable of understanding the proceedings. Accordingly, the trial court considered all of the evidence on the competency issue and found appellant to be competent to stand trial.

On August 8, 2011, the case first proceeded to a jury trial. The court declared a mistrial given the jury’s inability to reach a verdict. On October 28, 2011, a second jury trial was conducted. At the conclusion of the second jury trial, Robert Bowman was found guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment...

LINK:

https://cases.justia.com/ohio/sixth-district-court-of-appeals/2014-l-11-1300.pdf?ts=1409946290
 
Richard said:
In December 1967, Eileen Adams, a 14-year-old girl from Sylvania, Ohio, was a freshman at Central Catholic High School in Toledo. Each afternoon, Eileen would take a city bus from Central to a bus stop several blocks from her older sister’s West Toledo home off of Sylvania Avenue.

One of Eileen’s classmates rode on the same bus home with her each day, although the stop at which the other Central student would exit the bus was several blocks prior to Eileen’s stop. Eileen’s father would later pick her up at her sister’s home on his commute home from work. On the afternoon of December 18, 1967, Eileen got off the bus along Sylvania Avenue at her usual bus stop. However, Eileen never arrived at her sister’s home. Eileen disappeared along the short walk from the drop-off site to her sister’s nearby home.

Following her disappearance, Eileen’s panicked family notified the Toledo Police Department. Eileen remained missing and her fate unknown for approximately five weeks. At the end of January 1968, a Michigan hunter discovered her brutally murdered body in a rural wooded area of Monroe County, Michigan.

Eileen’s body was recovered wrapped in a bed sheet and placed inside of a rolled up rug. Significantly, a cord was wrapped around her feet, running around her neck so as to form a “death tie” designed to strangle her if she attempted to straighten her 5. legs. In addition, she had been struck in the head repeatedly with a hammer to such a degree of force that her skull was split. White dog hair and human DNA evidence was recovered from the body. Notably, no one in Eileen’s family owned a dog.

The initial police investigation into Eileen’s murder failed to provide any productive leads or suspects. The case eventually became an unsolved, cold case. However, approximately 15 years later, in December of 1981, a former West Toledo resident named Margaret Bowman voluntarily appeared at the Toledo Police Department advising that she possessed vital information about the unsolved murder.

Bowman advised the police that she had previously been married to Robert Bowman. She went on to reveal that at the time of the 1967 murder, the couple resided with their white dog in a home along Sylvania Avenue in West Toledo in close proximity to where the victim went missing. The Bowman home was located on the route the victim walked daily from her bus drop off point to her sister’s nearby home.

Significantly, Margaret Bowman disclosed that in December of 1967, while working around the home that she shared with appellant, she began hearing muffled noises coming from the fruit cellar in the basement. She investigated the strange noises and went inside the cellar. Once inside, she discovered an unknown teenage girl, later determined to be the victim, hanging from the cellar wall with her “arms stretched out like Jesus.” Eileen was still alive at this point but could not speak because her mouth was taped shut. Margaret conceded that she did not rescue the girl who she discovered being held captive in her home.

After seeing the girl restrained in the cellar, Margaret screamed and ran upstairs. Once upstairs, Margaret was confronted by her husband, Robert Bowman, who noxiously screamed at Margaret that she was “getting in his business” and “now he had to kill her [the victim].” Appellant immediately proceeded down into the basement where the victim was being held and turned a radio up extremely loud. Eileen was murdered with multiple hammer blows to the head.

Upon emerging from the basement, Bowman made Margaret drive their car north, going into Southern Michigan. In Michigan, Bowman removed the body from the trunk and dumped it in a rural wooded area. He threatened to kill Margaret and their baby if she revealed these events to anyone. The body was discovered by a hunter approximately five weeks later.

Margaret complied with appellant’s threats against her and remained silent for roughly 15 years. Margaret subsequently left appellant in 1978. She returned to Toledo and in 1981 she reported the above-described 1967 events that she had witnessed in her home involving appellant to the Toledo Police Department.

After Margaret’s 1981 revelations, the Toledo Police Department began a search for Robert Bowman. He was ultimately located in a former restaurant in Florida. Bowman was taken to a police station where he was questioned about the unsolved 1967 Toledo murder.

Significantly, in the restaurant where Bowman was discovered, the detectives observed a Spiderman doll hung upside down, with its hands and feet bound, 7. and a small nail driven through the front of its head. The doll was arranged in the precise manner in which Eileen Adams was bound and killed in Toledo in 1967.

Bowman revealingly advised the officers to take special note of the hands and feet of the doll during the discussions of Eileen’s murder. In addition, appellant conceded to having a white dog living in his home at the time of Eileen’s disappearance and murder. Nevertheless, at this juncture, it was determined that there was not enough evidence to arrest and prosecute appellant. The case remained officially unsolved for another twenty-five years.

In 2006, the Toledo Police Department again reopened the case. Given interim advancements in DNA technology, detectives were now able to test the semen recovered from Eileen’s underwear. Additional comparative DNA was voluntarily obtained from Margaret Bowman and her child. The testing established that appellant’s DNA matched the semen found in the victim’s underwear worn at the time of the killing. The likelihood of this match was one in 4,158,000.

On October 31, 2008, based upon the newly established DNA evidence, appellant was indicted on one count of murder in the first degree, in violation of R.C. 2901.01, for the unsolved 1967 murder of Eileen Adams.

On November 26, 2008, appellant was referred for an evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial. Dr. Charlene Cassel performed the first evaluation of appellant. Cassel determined that appellant was capable of understanding 8. the nature and objective of the proceedings against him. Based on Cassel’s report, the trial court found appellant competent to stand trial.

On January 18, 2011, the trial court referred appellant for a second competency evaluation by Dr. Wayne Graves. Graves likewise concluded that appellant was capable of understanding the proceedings. Accordingly, the trial court considered all of the evidence on the competency issue and found appellant to be competent to stand trial.

On August 8, 2011, the case first proceeded to a jury trial. The court declared a mistrial given the jury’s inability to reach a verdict. On October 28, 2011, a second jury trial was conducted. At the conclusion of the second jury trial, Robert Bowman was found guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment...

LINK:

https://cases.justia.com/ohio/sixth-district-court-of-appeals/2014-l-11-1300.pdf?ts=1409946290
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Wonder how many victims he had
 




Robert Bowman, serial killer

LINKS:

www.toledoblade.com

Man charged in 1967 murder of 14-year-old

A former Toledo man was arrested last night in Cathedral City, Calif., near Palm Springs, and charged with the murder almost 41 years ago of a 14-year-old ...
www.toledoblade.com www.toledoblade.com

www.nydailynews.com

Man who sexually assaulted, brutally murdered girl he kidnapped and held captive, gets life in prison

A man accused of snatching a teenager on her way home from school in 1967 and holding her captive for days in his basement before killing her was convicted Friday of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
www.nydailynews.com www.nydailynews.com

www.syracuse.com

Man convicted in 1967 Ohio teenage girl slaying

Jurors found Robert Bowman, now 75, guilty in the death of 14-year-old Eileen Adams today.
www.syracuse.com www.syracuse.com
 
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Eileen Marie Adams (1953-1967)
Murdered by Robert Bowman

Eileen was abducted 18 December 1967 in Toledo, Ohio by Robert Bowman, who held her prisoner in a basement cell for days or weeks before killing her and dumping her body in Michigan, where she was found in late January 1968.

Her murder remained unsolved for over 41 years when Bowman was captured, tried, and convicted.

How many other victims were there?

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LINK:
www.findagrave.com

Eileen Marie Adams (1953-1967) - Find a Grave...

Eileen was a victim of homicide. A young life taken far too soon. She was a Freshman student at Central Catholic High School in Toledo? Contributor: DogMama08 (47394092) • sueaveryt@atlinkwifi.com
www.findagrave.com www.findagrave.com
 
Any ideas who he might have also been suspected of killing? See a lot about him possibly being a serial killer but never anything about potential victims
 
Richard said:
Bowman's known crimes might make him a potential suspect as the Santa Rosa Hitch hiker killer of the early 1970's.

He targeted young teen aged girls and liked to tie them up and torture them, much like some of the victims in Santa Rosa.
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Was he in Caifornia to live at one point? Is there dates?
 
Vern said:
Was he in Caifornia to live at one point? Is there dates?
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Yes. He left Ohio for California at some point and lived there until moving on to Florida. Unfortunately, I do not have any specific dates.

He was a very strange guy. Just knowing what he did to Eileen Adams, one has to conclude that he had murdered children before and after.
 
Those who abduct and murder children, have the highest propensity of ALL criminal types to become serial killers.

And that does not preclude them to selecting only child victims, they may also prey upon adult victims as well .
 
Kell1 said:
Those who abduct and murder children, have the highest propensity of ALL criminal types to become serial killers.

And that does not preclude them to selecting only child victims, they may also prey upon adult victims as well .
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Bowman is completely evil. There is no doubt in my mind that he is a serial killer who would murder anyone - adult or child, male or female.

Abducting a young girl, keeping her in a dungeon, torturing her, driving nails into her, killing her slowly, and then disposing her like garbage, is not an accident or a one time incident. He had worked up to it with other victims and continued to kill over the many years that he was on the loose.
 
Richard said:
Bowman is completely evil. There is no doubt in my mind that he is a serial killer who would murder anyone - adult or child, male or female.

Abducting a young girl, keeping her in a dungeon, torturing her, driving nails into her, killing her slowly, and then disposing her like garbage, is not an accident or a one time incident. He had worked up to it with other victims and continued to kill over the many years that he was on the loose.
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More than likely there are more victims however it may have been short of murder such as sexual assaults .

AS odd as it is sometimes, they do just stop, or they may change to a "lesser" approach.

This may or may not have been his first, I tend to feel it probably was, only?... well that needs to be investigates further

They usually start off with animals or in some cases, people in a reduced capacity, they may try just assaulting someone, for ex, Gary Ridgeway as a teen just stabbed another boy once, to see what it was like, though that is not really "reduced" it wasn't the brutal sex attacks he became known for .

One thing to look for is a fantasy component , when fantasy is added to deviance, you have a very volatile mix, things we look for are repeated themes throughout crimes , but when we find an individual what often find is a rich fantasy realm they are very involved in . most often we find notes usually with graphic drawings, pictures, sometimes, theyll use dolls or some other type of substitute.

If those elements are there , coupled with the fact he abducted, and sexually murdered a victim, that puts him squarely in Serial offender territory .

Even if he didnt have any further victims, he is 100% thy type that would, if he doesnt already
 
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Eileen Adams, age 14, was abducted, imprisoned and tortured to death by Robert Bowman in December 1967. Her murder went unsolved for over 40 years.

This case is an example of how somebody who knew what happened to her came forward with information that eventually led to the case being solved.

Robert Bowman was arrested tried and convicted of Eileen's murder.

LINK:

The family of Eileen Adams, the original detective and Bowman speak about the case

Robert Bowman told the court he is not remorseful after he was convicted Friday of murdering 14-year-old Eileen Adams in 1967.
www.wtol.com www.wtol.com
 
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