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UPDATED: Gary Ray Bowles: Florida executes killer who preyed on gay men [View all]
Last edited Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:48 AM - Edit history (1)
EDIT: article updated at linkOriginal headline: Execution set for US killer who preyed on gay men
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Source: BBC
Gary Ray Bowles: Florida executes killer who preyed on gay men
23 August 2019
A serial killer who preyed on gay men along the US east coast has been executed in Florida.
Gary Ray Bowles was executed by lethal injection after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.
Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland but was only convicted of three deaths.
Sometimes dubbed the "I-95 killer", most of his victims were found near the interstate corridor that spans the entire eastern seaboard of the US.
Investigators say the 57-year-old West Virginia native left an abusive household as a child and worked as a prostitute to gay men for a number of years before beginning his killing spree.
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23 August 2019
A serial killer who preyed on gay men along the US east coast has been executed in Florida.
Gary Ray Bowles was executed by lethal injection after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.
Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland but was only convicted of three deaths.
Sometimes dubbed the "I-95 killer", most of his victims were found near the interstate corridor that spans the entire eastern seaboard of the US.
Investigators say the 57-year-old West Virginia native left an abusive household as a child and worked as a prostitute to gay men for a number of years before beginning his killing spree.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49438677
Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland (Florida Department of Corrections)
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