Twenty-four year old Jamie Bowie disappeared while en route from Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles in April 1990. Several motorists later reported seeing Bowie traveling west on Interstate 10. Some said it appeared she was having car trouble and was being assisted by an African-American couple, who were also driving a Volkswagen Beetle. Bowie’s body was found a month later, not far from the highway. She had been shot twice with a shotgun.
Over one year later, in August 1991, police in Fresno recovered Bowie’s Volkswagen. It was traced to a local car mechanic, who admitted having purchased it from a man named Billy Riggs.
