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On 23 March 1957, 8-year-old Tommy Bowman disappeared while hiking with his father and others near Devil's Gate Dam. Bowman walked through the ranger station with his friends, but he then ran ahead and disappeared after rounding a corner obscured by bushes. Despite an exhaustive search, he was not found and police believed he had been kidnapped. | On 23 March 1957, 8-year-old Tommy Bowman disappeared while hiking with his father and others near Devil's Gate Dam. Bowman walked through the ranger station with his friends, but he then ran ahead and disappeared after rounding a corner obscured by bushes. Despite an exhaustive search, he was not found and police believed he had been kidnapped. | ||
Police began rounding up vagrants and transients known to frequent the Devil's Gate area after 10-year-old boy said he last saw Bowman in the company of a "man who was dirty." Another witness said she saw a "strange-looking character with blond hair" carrying a small boy who was crying around the time Bowman went missing. | Police began rounding up vagrants and transients known to frequent the Devil's Gate area after a 10-year-old boy said he last saw Bowman in the company of a "man who was dirty." Another witness said she saw a "strange-looking character with blond hair" carrying a small boy who was crying around the time Bowman went missing. | ||
Two months after the disappearance, | Two months after the disappearance, Bowman's parents received a postcard from Oklahoma stating that Tommy was alive and doing well. Eleven months after the disappearance, Tommy Bowman's mother received a phone call from a man who told her he and his partner were holding the boy and that he would be returned if she walked outside and went down the street. She complied with the instructions, but no one ever arrived to drop off the child. | ||
Three years later, on 9 May 1960, 12-year-old Doug Headrick disappeared a few miles from Devil's Gate Dam while making a trip to the grocery store. Twenty-two days later, the suspect in that case attempted to kidnap three-year-old John Charles Dailey at a location even closer to the dam, but was frightened off by Dailey's older brother before he could complete the attack. | Three years later, on 9 May 1960, 12-year-old Doug Headrick disappeared a few miles from Devil's Gate Dam while making a trip to the grocery store. Twenty-two days later, the suspect in that case attempted to kidnap three-year-old John Charles Dailey at a location even closer to the dam, but was frightened off by Dailey's older brother before he could complete the attack. | ||