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Human Rights
Campaign Fund
names new
executive director
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NEWS
Cracker Barrel doesn't budge on
hiring practices PAGE 3
NC Pride PAC's Derek Livingston
resigns page 4
Court of Appeals rules against
former midshipman Joseph Steffan
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HEALTH
Meeting explores strategies for
people with low T-cell counts page is
FEATURE
Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund holds
candidate training in Atlanta PAGE 15
CDC's gay employee group weathers
E-mail storm and emerges strong
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OUT & ABOUT
Book recounts contradictions in
the life of a gay 'Jewish Wagnerite'
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VOIUME 7/NUMBER 41 PLEASE RECYCLE 75C WHERE SOLD
on win nit (U0-
Comic Margaret Cho
on private rumors,
public roles page 25
Serial killer of gay men confesses
Gary Ray Bowles admits
to killing Atlanta man,
five others
Jacksonville, Fla. (AP)—An alleged serial killer
accused of targeting gay men confessed to six mur
ders in three states following his arrest Nov. 22,
Sheriff Jim McMillan said.
Gary Ray Bowles, 32, confessed to murders in
Jacksonville, Daytona Beach and Hilliard, Fla.; At
lanta and Savannah, Ga.; and Wheaton, Md.,
McMillan said at a news conference.
“He has confessed to six and says that is all he
did,” McMillan said, who refused to discuss a mo
tive.
Among those, authorities said, was 47-year-old
Alverson Carter, Jr., who was found dead from stab
wounds in his northwest Atlanta townhouse several
days after Mother’s Day.
Bowles, who was using the name Tim Whitfield,
was arrested at about 5:30 a.m. in Jacksonville Beach
at a day labor office. Bowles had been added Nov.
19 to FBI’s list of ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.”
As Whitfield, he was wanted for the murder of
Walter Jammed Hinton, 43, of Jacksonville. Hinton,
a flower designer, was found dead in his mobile
home November 20.
While being questioned, “Whitfield” admitted
he was Bowles. His identity was confirmed through
fingerprints. Bowles has been the subject of a na
tionwide manhunt for a series of killings of gay men.
“He did not feel good about what he had done,”
said Jacksonville Sheriffs Detective J.P. Collins.
Bowles was known to “frequent gay bars, hus
tling homosexual men in exchange for lodging,
household chores, and-or
sexual favors,” the FBI
said earlier when he was
added to the fugitive list.
Warrants have already
been issued for three of
the murders Bowles has
confessed to, police said.
A federal warrant
charges Bowles with flee
ing prosecution for the
murder of Milton Bradley
in Savannah. Bradley, 72,
a disabled World War II
veteran, was found
strangled May 5.
He also has been charged by Maryland authori
ties with the April 13 strangulation murder of David
A. Jarman, 39, in Silver Springs. Jarman, a loan
processor for the credit union of the World Bank
Group in Washington, was seen in a gay bar and
leaving with a man matching Bowles’ description,
authorities said.
Bowles is also wanted by Florida authorities in
the slaying of Albert Alcie Morris, 37, in Hilliard.
Morris was found shot and strangled in his home on
May 19, and his abandoned car was found three days
later in Jacksonville. Bowles had stayed with Morris
a week or more, police said.
Bowles also admitted to killing a Daytona Beach
man. He had been a suspect in the March 15 slaying
of John H. Roberts, 60, an insurance salesman, with
whom he shared a room.
Detectives Tom Youngerman and Gary Meyer of
the Daytona Beach Police Department confirmed that
Bowles had given statements about Roberts’ slaying.
All of the victims suffered numerous injuries in
what police have called “overkill.” All were severely
beaten, bludgeoned and strangled. Some were shot.
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Gary Ray Bowles