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S 0 l J T H 1 E ] R P DEC 1 - DEC 1 I 1994 Human Rights Campaign Fund names new executive director PAGE 9 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 PAGE 5 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 PAGE 17 OUT & ABOUT Book recounts contradictions in the life of a gay 'Jewish Wagnerite' PAGE 33 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. CONTINUED* ON PAGE 7 Gary Ray Bowles