Last Words of Serial Killer Executed After Killg Six Gay Men: 'You Don't Wake Up And Deci to Bee a Serial Killer'

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• AFTER LATE APPEALS ARE NIED, FLORIDA EXECUT SERIAL KILLER WHO TARGETED GAY MEN ACROSS SOUTHEAST
• LAST WORDS OF SERIAL KILLER EXECUTED AFTER KILLG SIX GAY MEN: 'YOU DON'T WAKE UP AND DECI TO BEE A SERIAL KILLER'
• GARY RAY BOWL: FLORIDA EXECUT KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN
• 'I-95 KILLER' GARY RAY BOWL WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN DURG 8-MONTH KILLG SPREE EXECUTED IN FLORIDA, 1 VICTIM FROM MARYLAND
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN 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
• ‘YOU DON’T WAKE UP ONE DAY AND DECI TO BEE A SERIAL KILLER’: MURRER WHO TARGETED OLR GAY MEN EXECUTED IN FLORIDA
• THE LAST WORDS OF THE SERIAL KILLER WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURRG SIX GAY MEN

AFTER LATE APPEALS ARE NIED, FLORIDA EXECUT SERIAL KILLER WHO TARGETED GAY MEN ACROSS SOUTHEAST

Florida has put to ath the man known as the “I-95 killer, ” who was nvicted of killg three people and admted to killg several more a 1994 spree targetg gay men. The FBI began a natnal search for Bowl 1994 after they termed he was killg gay men at lotns near the highway om Florida to Maryland, acrdg to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. On Thursday, serial killer Gary Ray Bowl was executed at Florida State Prison, after killg six gay men over an eight-month perd the his fal words, read to reporters after his ath, the 57-year-old mate apologized "for all the pa and sufferg I have ed.

LAST WORDS OF SERIAL KILLER EXECUTED AFTER KILLG SIX GAY MEN: 'YOU DON'T WAKE UP AND DECI TO BEE A SERIAL KILLER'

He enuntered most of his victims gay bars, offerg them sex return for money and a place to stay, and stranglg or bludgeong them and stealg their cred rds.

GARY RAY BOWL: FLORIDA EXECUT KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN

But 1998, the Florida Supreme Court overturned Bowl' ath sentence after his lawyer succsfully argued prosecutors were wrong to troduce his anti-gay prejudice to evince. Image source, Florida Department of CorrectnsImage ptn, Bowl admted to killg six men 1994 om Florida to MarylandA serial killer who preyed on gay men along the US east ast has been executed Ray Bowl was executed by lethal jectn after the Supreme Court rejected a last-dch admted to killg six men 1994 om Florida to Maryland but was only nvicted of three aths.

Invtigators say the 57-year-old Wt Virgia native left an abive hoehold as a child and worked as a prostute to gay men for a number of years before begng his killg two jail sentenc for grand theft, robbery, asslt and rape, he moved to Daytona Beach this time he ntued to work as a prostute, and was livg wh a girliend who left him after disverg his sex later told thori that he blamed gay men for their break-up, and was angered to learn that his girliend had had an abortn, acrdg to the Daytona Beach a manhunt, Bowl was arrted Jacksonville while livg unr a false was nvicted of killg Walter Hton, 47, and given a ath also plead guilty and was given life sentenc for the murrs of John Hardy Roberts, 59, and Albert Alcie Morris, lawyers had ntend their appeal that he was too tellectually disabled to be beme the 99th mate to be put to ath Florida sce 1976 when the ath penalty was rtored by the Supreme Court, acrdg to the Daytona Beach is the 13th person to be executed the US so far this year, the Death Penalty Informatn Center executn me a day after Texas executed a man nvicted of the murr of a 19-year-old stunt, which he mataed he did not on this story. Starke, Florida (CBS News) — Gary Ray Bowl, a serial killer who preyed on olr gay men durg an eight-month spree that left six ad, cludg a man Maryland, was executed by lethal jectn Thursday at Florida State Prison. (AP) — 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 mataed he is straight, “I had a qutn about him beg gay.

'I-95 KILLER' GARY RAY BOWL WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN DURG 8-MONTH KILLG SPREE EXECUTED IN FLORIDA, 1 VICTIM FROM MARYLAND

In 1994, a serial killer was terrorizg gay muni along the East Coast of the Uned Stat. After talkg to Morris' associat, they learned he equented gay bars Jacksonville and had recently brought home a man named Joey Pearson.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN EXECUTED FLORIDA

They termed he was targetg gay men at bars, takg money and g them before the murrs.

On March 15, 1994, a 59-year-old surance salman named John Roberts, who was openly gay, had been found murred Daytona Beach. 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.

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

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 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. A Florida serial killer who targeted olr gay men and beme known for stuffg objects down the throats of his victims stuffed himself Thursday wh a mega meal before his executn.

‘YOU DON’T WAKE UP ONE DAY AND DECI TO BEE A SERIAL KILLER’: MURRER WHO TARGETED OLR GAY MEN EXECUTED IN FLORIDA

Durg his killg spree, Bowl targeted gay men who paid for his sexual servic, stuffg ems cludg dirt, rags and even a sex toy down their throats. Although Bowl admted engagg sexual activy wh his victims—many of whom he also lived wh briefly before the murrs—he told vtigators he wasn’t gay and only let his victims perform sexual acts on him, not the the other way around, acrdg to the Associated Prs.

THE LAST WORDS OF THE SERIAL KILLER WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURRG SIX GAY MEN

”[READ MORE: Serial killer of gay men Gary Ray Bowl began rampage Daytona Beach][PHOTOS: Serial killer Gary Ray Bowl]Twenty-ne people sat on the other si of a wdow and watched Bowl take ep breaths through his mouth as 100 ligrams of a sedative was flowed to him travenoly. Then he lifted up the sheet and checked the prisoner’s, the famo "I-95 killer" who targeted and murred gay men om Daytona Beach to the suburbs of Washgton D.