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Ronnie Lee BOWLING

Classification: Murderer

Characteristics: R

obberies

Number of victims: 2

Date of murders: January 20 / February 22, 1989

Date

of arrest: February 25,

1989

Date of birth: December 5,

1968

Victims profile: Ronald Smith / Marvin Hensley

(gas station attendants)

Method of murder: Shooting

Location: London, Kentucky, USA

Status: Sentenced to death on December 9, 1992

United States Court of Appeals
For the Sixth Circuit

opinion 03-5681

BOWLING, RONNIE LEE, DOB 12-5-68, was sentenced to death December 9, 1992 in Laurel County for the murder of two gas station attendants in two separate robberies. Bowling, from Clay County, Kentucky, shot and killed Ronald Smith, a London, Kentucky service station attendant during the early morning of January 20, 1989.

Again, in the early morning of February 22, 1989 Marvin Hensley, a service station manager in London, Kentucky was robbed and killed. Bowling was arrested February 25, 1989.

This killer executed two gas station attendants in separate robberies in Laurel County in 1989. He shot and killed a service station attendant during the early morning hours of January 20, 1989 and, again in the early morning hours of February 22, 1989, shot and killed a service station manager. Both were shot while lying face down.

Victims:

Marvin Hensley
Ronald Smith

SEX:M RACE:W TYPE:T MOTIVE:CE

MO: Shot gas station attendants in robberies.

Ronnie Lee Bowling