Bobby Jack Fowler Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

On September 25, 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Lincoln County District Attorney Rob Bovett named Bobby Jack Fowler as a suspect in three of the E-Pana murders. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victims.

In May 2006, Fowler died at the age of 66 in Oregon State Penitentiary from lung cancer. His body was cremated.

Potential Canadian victims include those murdered and missing along the Highway of Tears. However, many of these murders occurred after Fowler’s imprisonment in 1996 and geographic profiler Kim Rossmo is on the record as saying that in his opinion Fowler is not responsible for any of the deaths along Highway 16 between 1989 and 2006. It is possible that the only thing linking Fowler to Highway 16 is that he worked for a now closed Prince George roofing company, Happy’s Roofing, in 1974.

On January 8, 1996, Fowler was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, coercion, assault in the fourth degree, and menacing. He was sentenced to 195 months (16 years, 3 months) with the possibility of parole.

On June 28, 1995, Fowler was arrested following an incident which involved a woman jumping out of a window in the Newport Oregon Tides Inn Motel with a rope still tied to her ankle. She survived the attack and reported her tale to the local police.

On May 3, 1992, around 1:00 a.m., Sheila Swanson, 19, and Melissa Sanders, 17, were last seen making a call from a payphone near the Beverly Beach State Park where they had been camping. Their bodies were later discovered on October 10, 1992, by hunters in a wooded area near Eddyville, Oregon.

Fowler was a suspect under the focus of RCMP project E-Pana. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen. Fowler is also strongly suspected to have killed both Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police believe that he may have also killed as many as ten of the other victims, and possibly as many as 20.

In 1969, he was charged with murdering a man and woman in Texas, but was only convicted of discharging a firearm within city limits. Fowler also spent time in a Tennessee prison for sexual assault and attempted murder because, in the words of an investigator, “he tied [a woman] up, beat the hell out of her with her own belt, covered her with brush and left her to die.”

Fowler is a suspect or person of interest in at least 16 murders in British Columbia and Oregon dating as far back as 1969.

On March 6, 1959, Fowler married Theresa Patton, and their kids were Johnny, Janey, Pam, Loretta and Randell, after his two arrests in 1969 (which are mentioned below) he and Theresa divorced on May 17, 1971, just before he moved to British Colombia.

Bobby Jack Fowler (June 12, 1939 – May 15, 2006) was an American rapist and suspected serial killer who was active in the United States and Canada from 1973-1995. He died in prison of lung cancer during a 16-year sentence following a conviction for rape, kidnapping and attempted rape in Newport, Oregon, in 1996 (for an attack that took place in 1995).

Bobby Jack Fowler was born June 12, 1939 to Selva “Mutt” Fowler and Oma Lee (Hathaway) Fowler, he was their second born son, his older brother Walter Fowler was born in 1934 and his younger sister Susan Fowler was born in 1950, both died in 2004, two years before his death. His parents beat him and his siblings, when they were kids.