INDIO – Investigators in Riverside County have found a fugitive wanted for the 1967 murder of a 14-year-old high school freshman in Toledo, Ohio.
Robert Bowman was arrested Thursday in Cathedral City after two district attorney's investigators spotted him on a bicycle and believed he was wanted on an unrelated case.
Cathedral City police arrived on the scene and later discovered the 72-year-old Bowman was wanted in Toledo for the murder of Eileen Adams. Bowman had been profiled on the “America's Most Wanted” television show last year.
Bowman is being held in jail in Indio and is scheduled for an extradition hearing on Monday.
He is accused of kidnapping, raping and killing Adams after she stepped off a school bus on Dec. 18, 1967. Her frozen body was found a month later in a rural field in Michigan, with a telephone cord around her neck and a nail in her skull.
Police believe Bowman has been living on the streets in Florida and California for years. Attempts to locate an attorney for Bowman were not successful Thursday.