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[Music] crime [Music] kab Bowman was 37 years old when she went missing authorities were not able
to charge anyone in her slang and that remains True to this day here Captain 30 years later G was well liked she was a
1974 graduate of UDA High high school she attended Ashland University here in Ohio she earned an associate degree and
in her career she was a director of respiratory therapy at a hospital this before the early 90s when she started a
medical business named Premed she was the mother of two children and the stepmother of two more before she went
missing the general timeline and we went through some of the details of this in our coverage yesterday but on
February 15th 1993 gai Bowman left work the business that she owned Premed healthc Care at
6:45 p.m. she supposedly had a business meeting that evening or that night but never disclosed where or with whom the
following day February 16th gai's ex-husband Greg reports her as missing saying that she never picked up her
children from the babysitter's home the following day on the 17th of February gai's snow covered van was found outside
of the Best Western motel on Laver Road this again just one and a half to two miles away from her
home and not terribly far from her business either then we fast forward to March 16th of the same year
1993 when a Delaware County engineer finds gai of Bowman's body in a gravel pit or near a gravel pit in Delaware
County as we said yesterday this is a county that is separated by another County from Richland County where she
went missing about 50 miles away from home someone had attempted to conceal the body there and police said outwardly
right from Jump Street that they had no reason to believe that she was killed where she was found in fact they had
reason and such evidence to suggest that maybe she was killed elsewhere and this
for a lack of a better term was simply a Dumping Ground so like the colonel was saying she went missing from one County
her body her remains are found in a different County so now we have two Sheriff departments that are working
this case yeah and this is where things get even more complicated and sometimes it's great to have multiple agencies
working the same case and sometimes it's not it's hard for me to sit here and examine this investigation and determine
who was doing a good job who was doing a not so great job or how well the two Sheriff's departments were working
together keep in mind there are complications based off of just the time period in which she went missing and
when she was murdered 1993 technology certainly wasn't what it is today and thus counties that are
separated by roughly 40 or 50 miles that offers up its own complications into the
joint what's reported as a joint investigation however what you do have is Richland County caught a case the
case they caught was a missing person's case this one gai a Bowman was reported missing from her home from her business
in Richland County Delaware County caught a whole different case same person gai a Bowman however they have a
homicide investigation to deal with so it what once was a missing person's case now becomes a homicide
case it may have been easier for the public if it would have been fully handed over to Delaware County from but
from what I've been told and from my understanding is that was not the case that while it's reported that this was a
joint investig ation that may be true in some facets of the investigation however
it does not appear to be true in all cases here because it looked to me like Delaware County and Richland County were
running two separate investigations on the same case well we don't have a good time frame of when gai was killed
because of the weather you talked about that yesterday but we do know that she was strangled and she was covered with
trash and this location this Gravel Pit yeah so the trash came from to be clear it came from Richland County and her
body's recovered in Delaware County but that is the indicator to detectives that
she likely was killed elsewhere and then transported to the location where she's
later found the captain's absolutely right with in regard to that trash there's the dresses and such that are on
that trash and detectives thought oh great this is not going to take long for us to solve this thing this the debris
and the trash that is found with our victim might point us to who is responsible well cuz sometimes as we
know and all the True Crime Community knows sometimes these killers are doom masses that's right and thankfully so
but in this case the addresses that were provided as clues or could have been Clues to the investigators in gai's
case were not addresses that led them to any particular suspect in fact from my understanding they end up figuring out
that the trash likely was pulled from a dumpster from a business was just one more way of trying to hide and conceal
gai's body we've talked about this plenty of times here on the show and we've we get this information Direct
directly from Killers themselves their own words where they have said look the the the more that I knew a victim or
this is coming from the mouths of several serial killers the closer the tie of the victim to me the
perpetrator the greater the lengths I went to to concealing the body right if it was somebody I didn't know at
all we could discard them on the side of the road and just continue on because there is nothing there would be nothing
in the investigation that would lead the detectives from the victim to the perpetrator because it was a stranger
complete stranger on Stranger crime those same Killers say the reverse if there was any direct connection from the
from the victim to me I would go to Great Lengths to try to conceal the body because if they can never find the
victim then they're going to have very little ways to tie it back to me to the perpetrator here what I see is somebody
going to Great Lengths to try to conceal this victim well one of the other problems with this case though is where
her remains are found a person wouldn't have to have extensive knowledge of this
area to know that it would be a good place to leave remains that's exactly right because if you hop off of the
freeway there you are going to make a right which would take you West and within about a half a mile to
one mile approximately you are in the sticks there are very few street lights if any at all you are in the sticks so
you would see this this road this Dunham road you could only turn left onto it and it dead ends at some point and so a
person very likely could have never have been there before in their entire life right and yet found this road drove down
this road and thought that looks like that's my spot now keep in mind when we say going to Great Lengths
to conceal the body the person that's trying to hide the body of Gab Bowman may be under some kind of time
constraints too they may not have today tomorrow and the next day to figure out what to do with this evidence
how is the best way to hide and conceal this evidence so they hop in the vehicle
they grab some trash and now we're going to figure out how we can conceal gai now
we get some more information here and what's weird in this case Captain is a lot of things well I don't think that
really any of this information was ever designed or thought to be holdback information it's just this information
didn't find its way to the public or was wasn't released to the public until it went from being a missing person's case
to a homicide investigation where a lot of times we will see holdback information starts to trickle out over
the years or over the months after the case remains unsolved here it looks like they had a lot of this information or
parts of this information and then later it's confirmed because think about this
she's missing and for 30 days you have one agency investigating this missing person case 30 days later when she's
found and it's ruled a homicide you now have two agencies conducting their own investigations right so they're either
doubling down on the same information or they're finding additional information that was not uncovered before
previously now we talk about it being difficult to narrow down the time of death for our victim here and that would
be very key to our timeline for our investigation but I don't think that it is I mean even though we have science
and we have the coroner saying look she could have been killed the night she went
missing she could have been killed last week because if you look at the weather for that month in which she was missing
it rarely gets above freezing during that time period And so she's essentially being stored in a in a
freezer just outside in this Delaware County open open air storage facility but it doesn't
take Sherlock Holmes to figure out if nothing bad happened to gai The Bowman she would have picked up her kids that
night if nothing bad happened to gai The Bowman on the 15th or the 16th she would
have went to work the next morning so any detective can very quickly look at this and go you know what we're probably
dealing with something that happened to her that night she was a good mom something prevented her from picking up
her kids that night she was a good business owner something prevented her from going to work the next day now
here's an article that starts to fill in some of the blanks here and stop me at any point here captain and we can tear
through this as much or as little as you want to now this article says Richland County
sheriff's deputies are asking for help solving the 1993 murder of a Mansfield woman whose body was found off of Dunham
road in Delaware County Delaware County employee Tom I'll leave out his last name found The partially decomposed body
of gai a Bowman covered in garbage at the County Gravel Pit off Dunham road March 16th
1993 the coroner and other lab results told us that she had been strangled but the coroner goes on to say
that he didn't know exactly how she had been strangled Richland County prosecutor
said authorities have had a diffic have had difficulty determining gai's activities the night that she
disappeared February 15th he said he is hoping that someone in Columbus or Delaware County might have seen gai of
that night that sounds weird to me super weird if she's covered in trash from Mansfield Ohio I don't know why the
prosecutor up in Richland County would expect that maybe somebody from Columbus or Delaware County might have seen her
that night or have you know it'd be different to say that hoping that somebody out of the area would have
information but to have seen her or interacted with her that night unless they're starting to hone in on who she
was meeting with or or suspected of meeting with and I think we're going to get those answers
here very soon but isn't that also strange to you we do know that she at least changed her clothes once to me
that it seems like if you're going to have a business meeting and you're coming from work you just meet the
individual in your business attire well and that's exactly right and you also get the snow here the snow is going to
be big indicators on when her body was placed there and when her van when she either she parked her van or somebody
placed her van where it was later found right so here we have Delaware County Sheriff's detective saying there was
snow under gai's body indicating that it was snowing before the body was abandoned they went on to say that her
body was found face down she had no shoes or coat on and one of her front teeth was chipped in half Bowman was
wearing some expensive gold jewelry when the body was found this indicating that
robbery robbing this poor woman stealing her valuables was not in the Killer's mindset yeah and you said that she they
believe that she was strangled but we didn't say if if we thought there was any sign of sexual assault correct and
in no report do they ever reference that and so my belief would be that no that was not a factor here in this case right
which leads us to some some motive here no sexual assault and like you said she had some jewelry on her also strange
that she has a crack front tooth makes makes you think that there was some kind of struggle or fight that at least um
happened before she was strangled well and without getting too much in the weeds
here that chip tooth very likely could have happened when she was placed where she was later found right that that's a
good point we know that she was found face down MH that's a chip that could have occurred by dropping her there yeah
given how she's found I can't imagine that the killer went out of their way to place her there nice and neat and gently
especially knowing that then they covered her in garbage this dumping site like you said it's you don't have to
have a lot of knowledge of that area but it is a risky maneuver because it is a dead end and so there's a possibility
that you have to go in there quickly dump the body and get out without somebody seeing you correct it that does
seem risky but go back to what we were talking about before I think there's a high probability of whoever
there may have never been on that road before right they may not know that it dead ends they they may simply be out
driving around looking for air quotes a good spot yeah back to what you were saying here captain and
this is very strange this is weird movements of our victim here uh you referen the different clothing found on
the body so they go on here to say that gai Bowman it was reported that she was wearing a pant
suit when she was last seen at work on February 15th right when her body was discovered she's
wearing a skirt and so openly in this report the authorities are saying that they think
that she may have changed her clothes possibly in her van before this scheduled business meeting yeah they're
saying possibly but you'd think they'd have this information because if you find those pants the pants suit in her
van you would know obviously correct well and we're going to get back to this van and well we'll continue on with the
van here but the van is is a big problem with this investigation and unfortunately Richland County did not
handle the van in a great way so the van's found the day after she's reported missing they look at it they examine it
they give the van to gai's husband Gary then she's found murdered 28 29 days later yeah mistake
and again though I mean this her van is found she's reported missing but her van is found and there's
snow so there's probably other vehicles that and we live in central Ohio when it's snows really bad or there's a
decent amount of snow when you're driving to work or driving to Places You'll see cars on the side of the road
you'll see cars that were abandoned so they might had a decent amount of vehicles to deal with during that time
period well and one thing that I want to point out here too is and this might be
obvious to some but it's not so obvious to others when authorities are saying look she we have witnesses saying she
left work wearing outfit a we find her body she's wearing outfit B right we are open telling the public who we are
currently asking for help we believe that she changed her clothes in her van before this business meeting MH and you
said well if they would have found her other clothing in her van then they would know this statement does not mean
that they did not find her other clothing in her van right you know when you're asking the public for help and
especially in this in a homicide investigation you don't need a clue in every Tom Dick and Harry about exactly
what happened what you found or what you did not find what they have not found let's let's pretend for a second they
did not find their her clothes in her van and in fact finding her clothes in her van would not 100% guarantee to you
as an investigator that she did in fact change her clothes in her van right what
is clear what they're not finding is anybody saying yeah she went into the restroom at work and came out wearing a
different outfit or yeah she was in my place of work or or my business or she was at the bar or the hotel or wherever
she came in one went in one door wearing one outfit and came out wearing a different outfit so that's what we don't
have in the investigation but what we do have is like you said the the missing person report is called in by her
ex-husband I think the lack of actions by her current husband is a little fishy really fishy a whole lot of fishy I was
trying to be nice to the fish continuing on with the van in this report we get a
little bit more information where it's saying that her van was found in the parking lot of the Best Western motel in
Richland County it it says authorities believe gai The Bowman was already missing when the van was parked at the
motel I don't know how they they seem convinced of this but they are pointing out and once again referencing the snow
saying that Bowman disappeared before they believe that Bowman disappeared before midnight night on February
15th and because there was no snow underneath the van and there was snow on top of the van and it was snowing by
midnight that night they believed that her van was placed there before midnight and obviously it remained there until
after midnight and they believe stayed there the entire time that it was snowing well you wonder if law
enforcement found any footprints in the snow these are people that were questioned by authorities and I want to
be 100% clear here these are not suspects they are not even Persons of Interest these are people that they
decided they should talk to when she was a missing B later found deceased it says those questioned by
authorities include gai's husband Gary her best friend Mary her 13-year-old son Jason her ex-husband Greg Gary Bowman's
Father Charles three employees at her medical supply business a local physician whose business she was trying
to obtain and then numerous unnamed persons so it says numerous others with a reminder that no charges have been filed
in in the case as of this report but going on to say definitively and for The public's information that they currently
at this time did not have a prime suspect in gai's case they're also not stating that they cleared any of these
individuals correct and it would be I wouldn't expect them to to publicly announce anybody being cleared
especially when we have so many questions in the timeline itself you know one detective told me once when I
asked him on a different case I said hey did you did you clear anybody uh in this case and he said look
you know we like like so many cases we don't clear anybody until the case is solved and he he went on to say in fact
that when he arrives on a crime scene there are only two people that are not suspects himself and his
mother what I find of Interest here captain in this later report that's coming out is the information that's
coming from her employees at her work so we're getting again it's hard to say because
now we have two agencies investigating this case where before we just had the one so is this new information that was
gleaned by the new agency in in in investigating the homicide or was this old information that just never made its
way to the public because either it was a unnecessary to tell them or B it might
have been some kind of holdback information and the two things that come out from the employees at her work was
one that it was not such a mystery of who she might have been meeting that night the business meeting was with this
local physician whose business Gaya and pertica her company was trying to obtain
right right they're trying to become this physician this hospital or doctor's office medical supplier so this seems
like a typical run-of-the-mill business meeting however this person's not a complete mystery to all involved they
know who the physician is they SP they spoke investigators spoke with this physician right that's why they
questioned him the other thing that comes out in this report was that there was an argument that was not so secret
to the employees that took place the day that she went missing so they report to the authorities there
was an argument that was that went on between Gaya and her husband Gary at Premed that day what's weird here
Captain is this depending on which agency you talk to they describe this argument
differently now you only have three Witnesses and maybe each of those Witnesses had a different interpretation
of this argument and maybe that's why we get varying stories but the very brief description one provided by Richland
County Sheriff's Office they describe it as a violent argument that took place at
work that day Delaware County describes it as a loud a very loud argument that took place that
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unpack in this complex case thanks so much for listening thanks for telling a friend cheers to you all
and cheers to you carel cheers to you captain and cheers to all of the good people especially the ones sitting way
in the back here's some detailed information on that that day and again I think we need to
underline this circle it I don't think it takes Sherlock Holmes to figure out whatever happened to gai happened that
night or in the we hours of the next morning and you almost have detectives outwardly saying this they they are
saying that look because of how her van was found and because the weather conditions that night we believe that
she went missing or something happened to her and potentially her van was later placed there again we'll get back to
that van but the information that we get much later in this investigation are saying that it was learned that gai owed
the IRS approximately 8 to 10 grand in business related taxes now this sounds this may sound
like a a whole bunch of money but well it's not a ton ton for a business it's yeah it's back taxes but it's it's not a
ton and then I don't think there's I don't think they put a ton of pressure on you to pay them off immediately you
can kind of pay them through a period of time the business itself was successful
so it seems like they would if not immediately have the means to pay this off they would at some point now back
taxes what have you February 1993 that is going to be tax SE for her business anyway so it's difficult for us to sit
here and say how far in the rears were they with the taxes but it's believed that the argument that took place
between her husband Gary and gai at work that day may have been in relation to this money that the business owed to the
IRS the employees went on to tell the authorities that Gary Bowman left preda at 64 5 p.m. it is believed that he went
and got his glasses repaired and it stated almost as fact here so my guess is somebody knew that information or
Gary told that information to the authorities and they were able to back it up he goes on to say that he ate
dinner and then came home and he was home about 8:20 p.m. that night he says that when he arrived home gai and the
children were not at home he decided to go out and start looking for her stopping first at the Best Western motel
where he told authorities he thought he had seen her van well this would go with
the timeline a little bit here that we've been told by the authorities yeah but it's very strange why wouldn't you
just call the babysitter to see if she picked up the kids yeah but I I I think we need to point out the obvious here
this doesn't indicate that he didn't call the babysitter he's not going to I would doubt that he would just
willy-nilly just start going out and driving around looking for his wife and children he probably very likely reached
out to the babysitter at this point but we do know he's out looking for her I think what the strange thing here
is him telling authorities that he stopped at the Best Western motel where he told authorities he thought he had
seen her van he says when he reached the parking lot he realized that it was not
her van he then went into the lounge which would be that that bar that was uh in the same parking
for about 15 minutes or so and then returned home he said that he fell asleep and then he woke up about 2 a.m.
and this is when he realized once again that his wife and children still had not
returned at this time he calls gai's mother and he calls the babysitter this to try to locate the children as we
pointed out that location where the van is found is not terribly far from their home it does not surprise me that this
would be in his route when he's out driving around looking for his wife looking for his children what surprises
me is to have a statement from the husband that says you know what I pulled in to the parking lot because I thought
I saw her van there and then I got out of my vehicle I determined that it was not her van I go inside I had a drink
and then I went home left the lounge arrives home around 8:20 or so falls asleep the problem with
this statement is her van is later found in this parking lot so what the hell is
it right was it her van or not I me I mean it's like the uh Princess Bride you hear the statement you go
inconceivable how the how the hell can he tell authorities I stopped there because I thought I saw her van and then
determined that the van I spotted was not hers and then later her van is found in this location so I I mean I can't
wrap my head around this yeah is he just such a dumbass that he can't identify his own wife's van or is it possible
that he's like well somebody might have saw me at the at the Best Western so I need to place myself there that's what I
think we have going on here because according to his own statement he went into the bar such a dawn thing man to
Esta your own Alibi that's a dawn thing you know you would expect that if well here it sounds like it's a Gary thing
but you would expect that if he went into the lounge as he states to authorities that somebody would have
seen him and then there's the other thing though too is you know we're reading these reports we're not there to
question this individual and ask for the details could it have simply been that he was unable to discern 100% if this
was was or was not his wife's van so he did go inside to see if she would be there right and then because she wasn't
in there he decided that oh it's probably not her van a 1990 Dodge van is not an incredibly uncommon vehicle right
it's weird to me that we have the ex-husband that's calling in the missing person's report well and also look it's
the early '90s there was a lot of people with little stickers or bumper stickers
and so it's like yeah you there's a lot of vehicles that are the same vehicles but there's normally some kind of
identifying marker you'd think that he' know maybe some information of what her license plate said I agree with you 100%
Captain I I that's the the biggest problem with Gary's story to me again Princess Bride inconceivable to
tell me that you went there and you purposely pulled into that parking lot because you thought you spotted your
wife's van somehow some way determined that it was not her van and then she's missing later found
killed and her van is found in that parking lot less than 48 hours after she left work that day well and also less
than a few hours after you were supposedly at her work and had this heated conversation
or the other report is a violent confrontation yes and that that's weird too now we do have the victim's
mother who openly stated that she was very unhappy with the investigation she is stating outwardly
that there were problems with the investigation from the first week she doesn't have a whole lot of problems
with the investigation as it took place going forward after it was known that this was
a homicide investigation she has a problem with how things were handled within that first week in particular the
van the finding of the van itself and then releasing it she has openly said to the public that she thinks that a lot of
evidence a lot of information was missed was lost and gone forever when they returned
that van to Gary Bowman well they returned it so quickly and and this is information we don't
have not privy to but it's like well what the what's the color of the interior and is it possible that there
was blood in the interior that maybe somebody just missed but you give it back to this individual that you haven't
really questioned and why didn't he call to report his wife missing I cannot for
the life of me figure out why he doesn't report her missing okay I I can get over
that fact what I can't get over is that if I'm an investigator and I'm looking at this and I'm going husband doesn't
call this in right we find the van he's telling us he went to this parking lot location that he told you he
went to we find this van later I I'm wondering what kind of search was done on this van it seems to
me like they just willy-nilly released it and probably didn't take good inventory or record of What observations
they could make on this van right and the other thing too I want to be clear here yes we're dancing
around the whole idea that Gary is probably a prime suspect or should be but definitely should be a person of
interest but regardless of who is responsible for this homicide it doesn't have to be Gary that
killed her for evidence in that van to have been lost like her mother is pointing out whoever the Killer
is there could be evidence that was lost against them regarding this van and the
returning of this van the timeline let's take it out a little bit further here so after the body is recovered in March
of 1993 and July of 93 we start having investigators singing a different song we now have two
suspects in gab Bowman's homicide they do not name one of the suspects but if you're willing to read
between the lines and you don't have to read very hard you can see that they're almost openly naming the second
suspect and hit me it's Gary Bowman and again they're not outwardly stating 100% they're not saying they're
not putting those words in the same sentence Gary Bowman is a murder suspect but what they are saying
is we have gone to Gary we've asked him to submit blood we've taken blood from this person
and we are now going to be conducting test conducting DNA test we have the DNA from our two suspects and
we're thinking that these test once we get the test back it's going to tell us who did it it's either person a or
person B we've narrowed it down to person a or person B and based off of the DNA evidence we think that it's
going to tell us which of these two people so what the problem here in the investigation became that they could not
you asked about clearing somebody they could not clear either of these two individuals there was evidence to
suggest that one of these two people was the last person to see gai a Bowman the
evidence unfortunately could not clear either person okay so when we look at Gary again very strange he doesn't call
in a missing person report on his wife he does have a alibi for leaving the business and he went to get his glasses
fixed but after that by his own Omission he has no alibi so if we're thinking that this
murder took place that night or at least she was kidnapped that night he doesn't have a solid Alibi and
then this other individual who I have to believe is the physician that she told some people she was going to go meet
right which would make the most sense then it makes you wonder well maybe he didn't have a solid Alibi either and you
have to believe that right unless unless they have something in the investigation
saying that she met up with some unknown person or let's say went into the bar and somebody approaches her the thing is
though they don't have any information or any evidence suggesting any of that their evidence suggest to them that the
last person to see gai of Bowman that night was either a this physician or B her husband and so you're saying that
they took DNA from both of these individuals they test it and they can't there's no conclusive answer yeah and so
let me give up uh a little bit of insight on that and this is this is just the colonel here reading between the
lines okay there was a struggle there was a struggle that took place we had already said that the
coroner says well she was strangled but we don't know how she was very likely strangled just
somebody wrapping their hands around her neck right after a struggle took place so there was a struggle
and I look I'm making a lot of inferences here but I think a lot of them will make some
sense once we go through them because we have two individuals that we cannot clear either and I think you are exactly
spot on here Captain I think there's a problem with The Alibi of both of them we have her husband who openly admits
that after a certain time that night he has nobody to account for his whereabouts we also have this physician
who it is stated that she was going to go meet that night he says that they did not meet that night and he had met her
in the past but did not meet her that night obviously there has to be some problems with his Alibi because they're
still interested in this dude now basing the idea off of there being a struggle and that one of these two individuals
was the last to see her here's my thoughts nowhere ever is sexual assault ever mentioned in any of the reports so
I don't believe that they believe that that took place what I do think that they have
evidence of and they're not outwardly saying it is that if a struggle took place she very likely may have the
Killer's DNA skin scrapings what have you underneath her fingernails right now here becomes the
problem for your investigation one would expect to find her husband's DNA under her
fingernails very likely right very possible yes we know this from other homicide victims we know we know this
from other cases you can there there are cases where victims went to school all day long and they find DNA or some kind
of evidence underneath fingernails of of persons that had nothing to do with their homicide right
what I believe these tests were was to rule in or rule out this physician right because you might
expect again it's not 100% but it's also not out of the realm of possibility you
might expect to find DNA of the husband underneath the fingernails whether he's responsible or not but you wouldn't
expect to find the Physicians especially if he says he did not meet her that night so when these tests come back the
best thing for your investigation is for it to match up to the physician because then that tells you he
lied to you that tells you his story is wrong he lied to authorities now he has just separated himself from the other
suspect this case is unsolved 30 years later they've never publicly said what the results of those test were but I can
tell you what those results were because it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that test came back and did
not show evidence of this physician or we wouldn't be sitting here 30 years later with an unsolved case yeah cuz
they would have made the arrest he already made the statement and I didn't meet up with her that night there's no
reason for her his DNA to be under her fingernails or on her person and if they found that DNA they'd make the arrest no
solid Alibi and your DNA that's enough to go to trial the problem again with the suspicious behavior of her husband
is you can explain away the DNA where gai's mother is absolutely correct when gai went missing if they would have
question everybody initially and then searched the person but maybe there'd be some wounds on Gary and then it would be
a lot harder to explain away the DNA MH I I agree with her mother that a lot of this the missteps
were the initial week of the investigation Richland County didn't know exactly what they were dealing with
so we got to say that in their defense however they could have handled this van situation much differently and they
could have looked at the early facts in the investigation in their missing persons investigation and
probably looked at it very differently given the facts that we now know the facts that came to light to to
became public information well this is a this is a mother of two correct this is
this is a successful businesswoman correct if I'm law enforcement I'm trying my damnedest to get a search
warrant for that vehicle I'm trying my damnedest to get a search warrant for the for her business and anywhere that
she would operate that business I would be getting I would be trying my damnedest to get a search warrant for
her house and to question and and search her husband it you know it it it sucks cuz
we see this so many times in cases where where they find an abandoned vehicle and because they deal with that
so often that they just go well it the the owner is going to turn up it's not that big of a deal but in this case it's
a little different because we have a missing person before you find the vehicle gab Bowman age 37
disappeared 30 years ago next week the case is still unsolved Delaware County Sheriff's office is still investigating
her homicide if anybody has any information you can call police desperately want
information about this case and I believe as said in the trailer of yesterday's show I believe and I know
the captain believes that one probably two or three people have some information that they've just not been
will that they've just not been willing to release or to give to the authorities
Delaware County Sheriff's Office is still investigating this homicide if anybody has information please contact
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On Monday, February 15th, 1993 - 37 year old wife and mother, Gatha Bowman was last seen at the healthcare business that she owned and operated in Richland County, Ohio. Much mystery surrounds the events that took place in the hours following the time that she left work that day. Next week will mark 30 years since she was seen leaving work that day and her case is still being investigated to this day. Join us in the Garage for the details of this now 30 year old mystery. If you or someone you know have any information about Gatha Bowman’s case please contact the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office at 740-833-2892 or go to www.delawarecountysheriff.com (http://www.delawarecountysheriff.com/)

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Brief Summary

Gai Bowman went missing in 1993; her unsolved murder involves complex investigations and suspicious circumstances surrounding her husband.

Key points

Gai Bowman's Mysterious Disappearance. Gai Bowman went missing in 1993, leading to a complex investigation involving multiple counties.
Discovery of Gai's Body. Gai's body was found in a gravel pit, raising questions about the circumstances of her death.
Conflicting Accounts of Arguments. Witnesses describe differing accounts of an argument between Gai and her husband on the day she went missing.
The Disappearance of Gai Bowman. Gai Bowman went missing under mysterious circumstances, with conflicting accounts from witnesses.
The Investigation's Complications. The investigation faces scrutiny as evidence may have been lost when the van was returned.
Unsolved Case After 30 Years. The case remains unsolved 30 years later, with no clear leads or arrests.

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