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• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• GARY RAY BOWL, ‘I-95’ SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, EXECUTED FLORIDAALL OVERDURG HIS EIGHT-MONTH MURR SPREE THE 1990S, GARY RAY BOWL KILLED SIX MEN. HE’S NOW THE 99TH PERSON TO BE EXECUTED FLORIDA SCE THE ATH PENALTY WAS RESTATED 1976.PILAR MELENZSENR NATNAL REPORTERPUBLISHED AUG. 22, 2019 11:18PM EDT GARY RAY BOWL—THE SO-LLED “I-95 KILLER” WHO SAVAGELY SLAYED SIX GAY MEN DURG AN EIGHT-MONTH MURR SPREE THE 1990S—WAS EXECUTED FLORIDA ON THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER THE SUPREME COURT REJECTED A LAST-DCH APPEAL. BOWL, 57, ATE A FAL MEAL OF CHEEBURGERS, FRENCH I, AND BAN BEFORE RECEIVG A LETHAL JECTN AT 10:58 P.M. AT FLORIDA STATE PRISON STARKE, ACRDG TO OFFICIALS. THE EXECUTN, WHICH WAS SCHLED FOR 6 P.M., WAS LAYED FOR SEVERAL HOURS WHILE BOWL’ FAL APPEAL WAS NSIRED BY THE URT. HIS LAWYERS ARGUED THAT HE WAS TELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT BE EXECUTED. HE WAS SENTENCED TO ATH 1997 AFTER NFSG TO THE HALF-DOZEN MURRS, WHICH ALL TOOK PLACE BETWEEN MARCH AND NOVEMBER 1994 ALONG THE EASTERN ASTLE. THE SERIAL KILLER ENUNTERED MOST OF HIS VICTIMS AT GAY BARS—THEN CHARMED HIS WAY TO THEIR HOM BY OFFERG THEM SEX FOR MONEY, THORI SAID. ONCE SI, BOWL WOULD STRANGLE HIS VICTIMS, TAKE THEIR CRED RDS AND INTIFITN, AND SHOVE AN OBJECT DOWN THEIR THROATS.  TRAVELG UP INTERSTATE 95, HE MTED THREE OF THE MURRS FLORIDA, TWO GEIA, AND ONE MARYLAND. THE MURRS GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN WHEN BOWL MA THE FBI’S MOST WANTED LIST JT THREE DAYS BEFORE HE WAS BROUGHT FOR QUTNG AFTER HIS LAST SLAYG.  BOWL IS NOW THE 99TH PERSON TO HAVE BEEN EXECUTED FLORIDA SCE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RESTATED THE ATH PENALTY 1976. “EACH OF THE MURRS WAS BTAL,” BERNIE LA RNDA, THE JACKSONVILLE PROSECUTOR BOWL’ TRIAL, TOLD THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL. “IT WAS NOT AN STANT ATH, LIKE SOMEBODY GETTG SHOT AND DYG OM THAT GUNSHOT. IT WAS A LIFE-AND-ATH STGGLE.”BOWL’ MURR SPREE BEGAN ON MARCH 14, 1994, WHEN HE KILLED 59-YEAR-OLD JOHN HARDY ROBERTS SI HIS HOME ON DAYTONA BEACH. AS HE DID WH MOST OF HIS VICTIMS, BOWL STUFFED TOILET PAPER AND RAGS TO ROBERTS’ MOUTH AND THROAT AFTER HIS ATH. HE ACCINTALLY LEFT PROBATN PAPERS AT THE SCENE OF ROBERTS’ MURR AND WAS ALSO SPOTTED ON A MERA TRYG TO GET MONEY OM THE MAN’S ATM ACUNT, MAKG EASIER FOR THORI TO INTIFY HIM. EXACTLY ONE MONTH LATER, 38-YEAR-OLD DAVID JARMAN WAS FOUND FATALLY BEATEN AND STRANGLED HIS MARYLAND BASEMENT. HIS CRED RDS AND R WERE MISSG. ON MAY 5, 72-YEAR-OLD MILTON BRADLEY WAS FOUND STRANGLED ON A SAVANNAH, GEIA, GOLF URSE. THE DISABLED WORLD WAR II VETERAN HAD BEEN SPOTTED WH BOWL SEVERAL TIM A GAY BAR NEAR HIS HOME.  A WEEK LATER, ALVERSON CARTER WAS FOUND FATALLY STABBED ATLANTA, ABOUT FOUR HOURS AWAY. “WE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL MURRS UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST THAT HAVE THE SAME EXACT” PATTERNS, SAID JIM HARE, A JACKSONVILLE ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY, AT THE TIME.HIS FIFTH VICTIM, 38-YEAR-OLD ALBERT MORRIS, WAS DISVERED ON MAY 19. HE’D BEEN GAGGED, BEATEN, STRANGLED, AND THEN FATALLY SHOT THE HEAD. AUTHORI SAID MORRIS MET BOWL AT A GAY BAR AND LET HIM STAY AT HIS HOE FOR ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HE WAS MURRED. HIS R AND CRED RDS WERE ALSO STOLEN.THREE DAYS AFTER MORRIS’ BODY WAS DISVERED, LAW ENFORCEMENT PUT OUT A BULLET: “BOWL EQUENTS HOMOSEXUAL BARS WHERE HE MEETS AND BEIENDS PATRONS. ALL KNOWN VICTIMS WERE MET AT SUCH TABLISHMENTS.”BOWL WAS FALLY ARRTED ON NOV. 23, 1994, A FEW DAYS AFTER KILLG HIS SIXTH VICTIM, 42-YEAR-OLD WALTER HTON, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. AUTHORI SAID HE MET HTON JACKSONVILLE BEACH, UNR THE FAKE NAME TIMOTHY WHEFIELD, AND MOVED TO HIS MOBILE HOME DAYS LATER. ONE DAY AFTER MOVG , HE DROPPED A 40-POUND CEMENT BLOCK ON HTON’S HEAD AS HE WAS SLEEPG AND THEN PROCEED TO STRANGLE HIM. HE ALLEGEDLY STAYED AT THE MOBILE HOME FOR A FEW DAYS WHILE HTON’S AD BODY REMAED ON THE FLOOR. HE WAS FALLY UGHT AT HIS JOB AT A DAY LABOR CENTER AFTER THE POLICE WERE TIPPED OFF TO HIS WHEREABOUTS. WHILE BEG QUTNED BY THE JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, BOWL NFSED TO ALL SIX MURRS, THORI SAID.  “HE HAS NFSED TO SIX AND SAYS THAT IS ALL HE DID,” JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF JIM MCMILLAN TOLD REPORTERS AFTER BOWL’ ARRT. “ALL OF ARE RELIEVED HE IS OFF THE STREET. THERE IS NO DOUBT THERE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY BEEN MORE.”AUTHORI LEARNED BOWL ED FIVE DIFFERENT SOCIAL SECURY NUMBERS AND WENT BY SEVERAL ALIAS, CLUDG GARY RAY BOL AND JOEY PEARSON. HE OFTEN ED THE FIRST NAM JAM, MIKE, AND MARK.BOWL PLEAD GUILTY TO HTON’S MURR 1996 AND WAS SENTENCED TO ATH A YEAR LATER. AT HIS SENTENCG HEARG, ACRDG TO LOL REPORTS, LA RNDA ARGUED THAT BOWL WAS MOTIVATED BY HIS HATRED FOR GAY PEOPLE AND SIRE FOR FANCIAL GA. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, AFTER PLEADG GUILTY TO TWO MORE MURRS, BOWL RECEIVED ANOTHER TWO NSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENC. IN 1998, THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED BOWL’ ATH SENTENCE WHEN THEY TERMED THAT THE URT MISHANDLED THE SE BY ALLOWG THE JURY TO HEAR LA RNDA’S THEORY THAT BOWL HATED GAY PEOPLE. A YEAR LATER, A SEND JURY UNANIMOLY RE-SENTENCED BOWL TO ATH WH AN HOUR OF LIBERATN. UNTIL HIS EXECUTN, BOWLED LIVED ISOLATN ON ATH ROW AT THE FLORIDA STATE PRISON. PILAR MELENZ
• MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

— Gary Ray Bowl, a serial killer who preyed on olr gay men durg an eight-month spree that left six ad, was executed by lethal jectn Thursday at Florida State sentence was rried out at 10:58 p. Invtigators say Bowl survived by lettg gay men perform sex acts on him for money, though he has said he was straight. "I had a qutn about him beg gay.

Gary Ray Bowl—the so-lled “I-95 Killer” who savagely slayed six gay men durg an eight-month murr spree the 1990s—was executed Florida on Thursday night after the Supreme Court rejected a last-dch appeal. The serial killer enuntered most of his victims at gay bars—then charmed his way to their hom by offerg them sex for money, thori said.

The disabled World War II veteran had been spotted wh Bowl several tim a gay bar near his home. Authori said Morris met Bowl at a gay bar and let him stay at his hoe for about a week before he was murred.

GARY RAY BOWL, ‘I-95’ SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, EXECUTED FLORIDAALL OVERDURG HIS EIGHT-MONTH MURR SPREE THE 1990S, GARY RAY BOWL KILLED SIX MEN. HE’S NOW THE 99TH PERSON TO BE EXECUTED FLORIDA SCE THE ATH PENALTY WAS RESTATED 1976.PILAR MELENZSENR NATNAL REPORTERPUBLISHED AUG. 22, 2019 11:18PM EDT GARY RAY BOWL—THE SO-LLED “I-95 KILLER” WHO SAVAGELY SLAYED SIX GAY MEN DURG AN EIGHT-MONTH MURR SPREE THE 1990S—WAS EXECUTED FLORIDA ON THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER THE SUPREME COURT REJECTED A LAST-DCH APPEAL. BOWL, 57, ATE A FAL MEAL OF CHEEBURGERS, FRENCH I, AND BAN BEFORE RECEIVG A LETHAL JECTN AT 10:58 P.M. AT FLORIDA STATE PRISON STARKE, ACRDG TO OFFICIALS. THE EXECUTN, WHICH WAS SCHLED FOR 6 P.M., WAS LAYED FOR SEVERAL HOURS WHILE BOWL’ FAL APPEAL WAS NSIRED BY THE URT. HIS LAWYERS ARGUED THAT HE WAS TELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT BE EXECUTED. HE WAS SENTENCED TO ATH 1997 AFTER NFSG TO THE HALF-DOZEN MURRS, WHICH ALL TOOK PLACE BETWEEN MARCH AND NOVEMBER 1994 ALONG THE EASTERN ASTLE. THE SERIAL KILLER ENUNTERED MOST OF HIS VICTIMS AT GAY BARS—THEN CHARMED HIS WAY TO THEIR HOM BY OFFERG THEM SEX FOR MONEY, THORI SAID. ONCE SI, BOWL WOULD STRANGLE HIS VICTIMS, TAKE THEIR CRED RDS AND INTIFITN, AND SHOVE AN OBJECT DOWN THEIR THROATS.  TRAVELG UP INTERSTATE 95, HE MTED THREE OF THE MURRS FLORIDA, TWO GEIA, AND ONE MARYLAND. THE MURRS GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN WHEN BOWL MA THE FBI’S MOST WANTED LIST JT THREE DAYS BEFORE HE WAS BROUGHT FOR QUTNG AFTER HIS LAST SLAYG.  BOWL IS NOW THE 99TH PERSON TO HAVE BEEN EXECUTED FLORIDA SCE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RESTATED THE ATH PENALTY 1976. “EACH OF THE MURRS WAS BTAL,” BERNIE LA RNDA, THE JACKSONVILLE PROSECUTOR BOWL’ TRIAL, TOLD THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL. “IT WAS NOT AN STANT ATH, LIKE SOMEBODY GETTG SHOT AND DYG OM THAT GUNSHOT. IT WAS A LIFE-AND-ATH STGGLE.”BOWL’ MURR SPREE BEGAN ON MARCH 14, 1994, WHEN HE KILLED 59-YEAR-OLD JOHN HARDY ROBERTS SI HIS HOME ON DAYTONA BEACH. AS HE DID WH MOST OF HIS VICTIMS, BOWL STUFFED TOILET PAPER AND RAGS TO ROBERTS’ MOUTH AND THROAT AFTER HIS ATH. HE ACCINTALLY LEFT PROBATN PAPERS AT THE SCENE OF ROBERTS’ MURR AND WAS ALSO SPOTTED ON A MERA TRYG TO GET MONEY OM THE MAN’S ATM ACUNT, MAKG EASIER FOR THORI TO INTIFY HIM. EXACTLY ONE MONTH LATER, 38-YEAR-OLD DAVID JARMAN WAS FOUND FATALLY BEATEN AND STRANGLED HIS MARYLAND BASEMENT. HIS CRED RDS AND R WERE MISSG. ON MAY 5, 72-YEAR-OLD MILTON BRADLEY WAS FOUND STRANGLED ON A SAVANNAH, GEIA, GOLF URSE. THE DISABLED WORLD WAR II VETERAN HAD BEEN SPOTTED WH BOWL SEVERAL TIM A GAY BAR NEAR HIS HOME.  A WEEK LATER, ALVERSON CARTER WAS FOUND FATALLY STABBED ATLANTA, ABOUT FOUR HOURS AWAY. “WE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL MURRS UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST THAT HAVE THE SAME EXACT” PATTERNS, SAID JIM HARE, A JACKSONVILLE ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY, AT THE TIME.HIS FIFTH VICTIM, 38-YEAR-OLD ALBERT MORRIS, WAS DISVERED ON MAY 19. HE’D BEEN GAGGED, BEATEN, STRANGLED, AND THEN FATALLY SHOT THE HEAD. AUTHORI SAID MORRIS MET BOWL AT A GAY BAR AND LET HIM STAY AT HIS HOE FOR ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HE WAS MURRED. HIS R AND CRED RDS WERE ALSO STOLEN.THREE DAYS AFTER MORRIS’ BODY WAS DISVERED, LAW ENFORCEMENT PUT OUT A BULLET: “BOWL EQUENTS HOMOSEXUAL BARS WHERE HE MEETS AND BEIENDS PATRONS. ALL KNOWN VICTIMS WERE MET AT SUCH TABLISHMENTS.”BOWL WAS FALLY ARRTED ON NOV. 23, 1994, A FEW DAYS AFTER KILLG HIS SIXTH VICTIM, 42-YEAR-OLD WALTER HTON, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. AUTHORI SAID HE MET HTON JACKSONVILLE BEACH, UNR THE FAKE NAME TIMOTHY WHEFIELD, AND MOVED TO HIS MOBILE HOME DAYS LATER. ONE DAY AFTER MOVG , HE DROPPED A 40-POUND CEMENT BLOCK ON HTON’S HEAD AS HE WAS SLEEPG AND THEN PROCEED TO STRANGLE HIM. HE ALLEGEDLY STAYED AT THE MOBILE HOME FOR A FEW DAYS WHILE HTON’S AD BODY REMAED ON THE FLOOR. HE WAS FALLY UGHT AT HIS JOB AT A DAY LABOR CENTER AFTER THE POLICE WERE TIPPED OFF TO HIS WHEREABOUTS. WHILE BEG QUTNED BY THE JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, BOWL NFSED TO ALL SIX MURRS, THORI SAID.  “HE HAS NFSED TO SIX AND SAYS THAT IS ALL HE DID,” JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF JIM MCMILLAN TOLD REPORTERS AFTER BOWL’ ARRT. “ALL OF ARE RELIEVED HE IS OFF THE STREET. THERE IS NO DOUBT THERE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY BEEN MORE.”AUTHORI LEARNED BOWL ED FIVE DIFFERENT SOCIAL SECURY NUMBERS AND WENT BY SEVERAL ALIAS, CLUDG GARY RAY BOL AND JOEY PEARSON. HE OFTEN ED THE FIRST NAM JAM, MIKE, AND MARK.BOWL PLEAD GUILTY TO HTON’S MURR 1996 AND WAS SENTENCED TO ATH A YEAR LATER. AT HIS SENTENCG HEARG, ACRDG TO LOL REPORTS, LA RNDA ARGUED THAT BOWL WAS MOTIVATED BY HIS HATRED FOR GAY PEOPLE AND SIRE FOR FANCIAL GA. THE FOLLOWG YEAR, AFTER PLEADG GUILTY TO TWO MORE MURRS, BOWL RECEIVED ANOTHER TWO NSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENC. IN 1998, THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED BOWL’ ATH SENTENCE WHEN THEY TERMED THAT THE URT MISHANDLED THE SE BY ALLOWG THE JURY TO HEAR LA RNDA’S THEORY THAT BOWL HATED GAY PEOPLE. A YEAR LATER, A SEND JURY UNANIMOLY RE-SENTENCED BOWL TO ATH WH AN HOUR OF LIBERATN. UNTIL HIS EXECUTN, BOWLED LIVED ISOLATN ON ATH ROW AT THE FLORIDA STATE PRISON. PILAR MELENZ

His r and cred rds were also days after Morris’ body was disvered, law enforcement put out a bullet: “Bowl equents homosexual bars where he meets and beiends patrons.

At his sentencg hearg, acrdg to lol reports, la Rnda argued that Bowl was motivated by his hatred for gay people and sire for fancial ga. In 1998, the Florida Supreme Court overturned Bowl’ ath sentence when they termed that the urt mishandled the se by allowg the jury to hear la Rnda’s theory that Bowl hated gay people.

Police rt spected Islamist ants acced of the slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, as they head to urt Dhaka, Banglash, on Tuday. DHAKA, Banglash — A Banglash anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuday sentenced six Islamist ants to ath the btal slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, five years ago, lawyers said.

MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID

In April 2016, assailants hacked to ath Xulhaz Mannan, an edor of Banglash's first gay rights magaze who had worked for the U.

Embassy protol officer, was edor of the gay rights magaze Roopbaan as well as a of former Foreign Mister Dipu Moni of the erng Awami League party.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. If: sexual crim agast children = ath penaltyand if: beg openly gay as a teacher a public school = sexual crimeThen: beg openly gay as a teacher a public school = ath penaltyThat's what this is for. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.

In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them. Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed. “Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green.

Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green. ’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then. In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer.