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Billy Ray Riggs in 2007
Facts of the Crime:
Billy Ray Riggs was sentenced to death in Riverside County on October 28, 1994 for the shotgun slaying of Jamie Bowie, 24, of Van Nuys. The day after Easter weekend on April 16, 1990, Bowie was heading home from Phoenix on Interstate 10 in her Volkswagen convertible when she developed car trouble. Riggs, a mechanic, and his wife Hilda Sims Riggs, offered help and followed Bowie to Banning, where they had dinner. After dinner, Bowie was kidnapped and taken to an automatic teller machine, but had no funds left in her account. She was driven to a remote citrus grove in Indio and murdered with two shotgun blasts. Her body was discovered weeks later by an orchard worker. Riggs took her car and the keys to her apartment, where he stole valuables that he later pawned. Police in Fresno found Bowie's car in 1991, and traced it back to Riggs.
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