Staff Sergeant Wayne Clary,  Inspector  Gary Shinkaruk and Sergeant   Paul McCarl  call for public assistance in  tracing  whereabouts of  Fowler

Prince George, B.C. – The  murder of Aileah Saric-Auger, and disappearances of Nicole Hoar and Tamara Chipman, are cases that are among the 8 which have been eliminated as having possible links to Bobby Jack Fowler. They are not on the list because of the time frame, as they died or disappeared when Fowler was in jail.

 But Matilda Wilson,  whose daughter Ramona was murdered and remains discovered in April of 1995, has been advised Romona’s death is among those being reviewed to see if she too fell victim to Bobby Jack Fowler. The 1994 deaths of Liah Germaine and Roxanne Thiara  of Prince George are also on the list of possible Fowler victims. 

Fowler, who died in an Oregon prison in 2006, has been named as the man who killed Colleen MacMillen near Lac La Hache in 1974, and is a strong suspect in the deaths of Gale Weys in Clearwater in 1973, and Pamela Darlington in Kamloops in 1973.  

Today, investigators with the E-Pana investigation brought their case to Prince George, because   Fowler is said to have worked here in 1974 for Happy’s Roofing. 

“We know Happy’s had contracts all along highway 16 and as far south as Kamloops” says Staff Sergeant Wayne Clary who heads up the E-Pana investigation. “Unfortunately, the company’s records have been destroyed, so we don’t know if Fowler travelled with the company.” 

What they do know is that Fowler was a violent man, who was an alcoholic, a meth user and his personality could flip as quickly as an on-off switch. He frequented bars and taverns, believed women who went to bars and taverns wanted to be violently sexually assaulted and travelled a lot. It was not uncommon for him to drive across three states in the U.S. in one day and he like older cars. They know he had a 1961 Chrysler Imperial. They know he killed Colleen McMillen. 

But investigators need the public to think back, especially those who may have worked at Happy’s  Roofing, or perhaps socialized with Fowler, or were customers of the company at that time. Investigators need to fill in the gaps in the timeline and whereabouts of Fowler.  

Yesterday’s massive media coverage of the linking of Fowler to the murder of Colleen MacMillen generated about a 100 tips to a special tip line, and that’s good news.   The E-Pana investigation started in the fall of 2005, and has:

·        Collected  more than 750 DNA samples from males

·        Conducted more than 100 polygraph tests,

·        Interviewed more than 2500 people ( this is over and above those interviewed when the cases first came to light)

·        Tracked down more than 18,000 tips

·        Filled 726 file boxes with documents

·        Noted 1413 persons of interest, of which 90% have been removed from that category.

Investigators are asking people to take a good look at the photos of Fowler,   think back , and then, if you can think of anything,   call their tip line.

The EPANA tip line is 1-877-543-4822