Further reading for: The Cline Falls Hatchet Attack
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Bobby Jack Fowler was a contraction worker known to have traveled extensively across North America and Canada. During his travels he committed many violent crimes creating an extensive criminal record. He was know to have been an abuser of alcohol, amphetamines, and met-amphetamines, and included in this criminal record were attempted murder, sexual assault, and firearms offensives, in other words, he was a real classy gent.
In 1996 he was charged with murdering a woman and man in Texas, for this crime he was only charged with discharging a fire arm within city limits. He was also at one point in prison for sexual assault and attempted murder of a woman, and had been known to believe that women who hitchhiked and hung out in bars wanted to be sexually assaulted…again, a real gent here.
Bobby Jack went on to become a bit of a carrier criminal and spent the majority of his life behind bars, until he died there in 2006, at the age of 66 from lung cancer.
In the years since his death, Bobby Jack’s DNA has been entered into CODIS and he has been connected to more murders, and is believed to have had victims in Cananda running the highway of tears.
The Cline Falls Hatchet Attack.
Female college students, Terri Jentz and roommate, Avra Goldman, were biking the Trans American Trail when they decided to stop overnight along the Deschutes River in Redmon, Oregon.
In the middle of the night they were awoken as truck drove over their tent, injuring them both. The man driving the truck then got out and began to attack them both with an axe. Amazingly both of these badass women survived the attack, they suffered significant injuries but they made it, however the dinkhole who attacked them got away and was never identified. The story of their attack and fight to survive is amazingly unreal.
Jentz, didnt give up on finding the man that attacked her and her roommate, instead she dug in and returning to the town and the crime scene and did her own investigating leading to her writing the above linked book. Sadly she also found out first hand how copies of interviews, crime scene photos, and physical evidence can inadvertently be lost.
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