Summary of Offense:
Bowman, of Belmont, Illinois, was sentenced in the 1977 killing of Velda Rumfelt, 16, in St. Louis County. The jury that convicted Bowman, then 58, in October 2009 recommended the death penalty. Bowman was imprisoned 28 years for killing Elizabeth West, 14, and Ruth Ann Jany, 21, in separate cases in Belleville, Illinois, in 1978. The convictions were thrown out after a sheriff's deputy admitted to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Bowman had been tricked into confessing.
Bowman was sentenced to death on December 11, 2009.
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