'It was just a sign of the times. We didn't have the quick access (to information). Law enforcement has a lot more tools at their disposal now.' Detectives say 1994 technology slowed search for serial killer.
It wasn't hard for Daytona Beach police to figure out who killed John Hardy Roberts in March 1994: Gary Ray Bowles left a probation document at the scene and also was caught on an ATM camera trying to withdraw money from Roberts' account. He later confessed.
Bowles is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Thursday for the murder of Walter Hinton — the last of six men whom he confessed to killing over an eight-month period. Former Savannah police detective John Best recalls how hard it was to keep up with Bowles' movements. In the late 1990s, police departments didn't have the sophisticated photo-editing and information-sharing technology they do today.
Best also recalls going through parking tickets by hand to find one written for a stolen car in which Bowles was traveling. Photographs and copies of Bowles' fingerprints arrived by overnight mail instead of being sent electronically in an instant, as they are today. "A couple of days had passed before we were able to get information to know where to go," Sylvester said, adding that it took just as long to get responses to subpoenas"or even video surveillance that nowadays would have been almost instantaneous."
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