A Student of Murder

A Student of Murder

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It was early evening of August thirty first, twenty twelve,
when Nancy Nole left work and headed home.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
He started driving.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
His battered old Subaru up Interstate five. At some point
he encountered a man in a BMW. He had no
way of knowing that he was going to be dead
in ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Nancy no was just a guy who lived in North Seattle,
had a girlfriend and a dog, like to climb mountains.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
He was one of us.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
When you prosecute murder cases for as long as as
we have, the random nature of death is what gets
in your head.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
He was my best friend for twenty two years. He
was my touchdown. He was the guy who kept me grounded.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
People adored him. The last few moments of Yancy Knowle's
life were pulling up at a stoplight. The BMW pulled
up next to Yancey's Subaru. Nancy turned and saw this

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car and this man next to him. He saw the
gun pointed at his head, and he saw the bullet
that shattered the window and tore apart his face. And
then he turned and was shot three more times in
the head.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
The witnesses really didn't know what had happened. They heard
the shots, and then they saw the BMW pull into
oncoming traffic, screeched out, leaving tire marks, going so fast
that when the car hit a hill, it took air
and then sped out of sight.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
When I arrived that day at the murder scene, it
was dusk. They had yellow crime scene tape around Yancy
Nole's Subaru. There was blood outside the driver's door. The
driver's seat was saturated with blood.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
When police respond to a murder, they're looking for a reason.
Was anybody mad at Yancy? Did Yancy have any enemies?

Speaker 5 (02:50):
There might have been some kind of road incident, some
kind of traffic incident, and.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
What are people thinking that there's a killer on the loose.

Speaker 7 (02:58):
There was a killer on the loose. Anybody could have
been the next target.

Speaker 8 (03:06):
Police didn't know.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
They were looking for a student of murder, someone who would.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Kill just to kill.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I'm Peter van sacked tonight on forty eight hours, student
of murder.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
This case is about the presence of evil in our world.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
It was like a bomb had dropped.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
None of us is ever safe. Any of us could
have been Nancy Noll.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Prosecutors Adrian McCoy and Kristin Richardson say, the murder of
Yancey Noll in twenty twelve, shot to death in his
car while stopped at a red light, put the city
of Seattle on edge.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
The police went all out. They took it very seriously.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Police are still looking for the suspect.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
Nancy Knowle was shot and killed one week ago tonight,
right now, the shooter is on the loose.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
How big a story was this?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
This was a very big story.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Allison Grandie is a reporter for Cairo seven, a CBS
News affiliate.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
We have shootings in Seattle. We don't necessarily have many
shootings in that area of Seattle, that time of day
and that type of victim.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
What were you hearing? Did Yancey no have any enemies?

Speaker 7 (04:57):
From talking to his friends, Yancey didn't have any enemies.
He was an outdoorsy guy who enjoyed fine wine, loved
what he did working as a wine steward at QFC.

Speaker 9 (05:07):
Hey, what's your name?

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yancy bottom line? Forty two year old Yancey Nol was
a good hearted, happy go lucky guy.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah, and friends say the idea that Yancey exploded into
a road rage battle is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
He drove like a grandma. He was very, very careful.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
Longtime friend Brad Kenney.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
He had a.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Subaru wagon not known for its speed.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Was he an angry man?

Speaker 10 (05:39):
No?

Speaker 8 (05:40):
Was he impulsive, No, reckless? Never verbally abusive?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
God no, not even close. He was so careful and
mindful with how he interacted with people.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Investigators suspect Yancey and his killer crossed paths around seven
pm on State five, just north of Seattle.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's possible that there was some sort of confrontation and
Yancy pulled up to the intersection thinking nothing of it.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Do you think he ever knew what hit him?

Speaker 8 (06:16):
Never?

Speaker 4 (06:17):
He was killed instantly. Thank god, he had no idea
what happened.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
The details of this shooting were curious, to say the least.
Right here, five shots were fired with remarkable accuracy. It
was at about this time of day, and the shooter
killed Yancey Nol just a few feet from other motorists.

Speaker 11 (06:40):
Five rabbis shots kind of like a pop pop pop
pop pop.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Friends Kevin Watts and Angelo Rama were driving together when
they heard those five pops behind them. The next thing
they saw was a car speed away into oncoming traffic.

Speaker 11 (06:57):
It drove by and I was like, that's kind of
where someone wouldn't wait for a red light.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
Upset that the driver had run the red light, the
two friends hit the gas and gave chase.

Speaker 11 (07:10):
We couldn't catch up to him.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
How fast did that vehicle peel out of here?

Speaker 11 (07:13):
Zerba sixteen? Like two three seconds? He was gone.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Rama and Watts gave up the chase and returned to
the scene, where a Subaru was still at the curb
with its motor running. The friends had a sinking feeling
that those pops they'd heard likely were gunshots.

Speaker 11 (07:34):
I saw a lot of blood, I saw where the
bullet holes were, and I realized that there was just
there's absolutely nothing I could do.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
The shooter's bullets had hit Yancy four times in the head.
The case was about to consume detectives Frank Clark and
Dana Duffy for the next two years.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yancey had no criminal history, no history of being a
hot head. We really didn't have a lot to go on.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
After closely inspecting the crime scene, the detectives realized Yancey's
window was down and the shooter had fired those five
shots right through his own passenger side window. That's so
strange to me the shooter would shoot through the passenger
side window of his car at someone else. Have you

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ever heard of such a thing?

Speaker 5 (08:23):
No, it was strange to us as well. That was
a huge piece of evidence.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
The police now knew the shooter's car had a broken
passenger side window, and there was more. Even though witness
Angelo Rama had only glimpsed the fleeing car for a
split second, something registered.

Speaker 9 (08:44):
My first guest was an M four. It's a BMW car.
The one that I saw was a convertible.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
It was silver.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Was the top up or down? It was down?

Speaker 9 (08:54):
And when he was driving by, I noticed that really
really nice silver rims.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Armed with his detailed description, the police advised the public
to be on the lookout for that BMW model with
that broken passenger side window.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
As for the driver, I looked at the person who
was driving a car because I'm really good with faces.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Kevin Watts helped a police artist come up with this
remarkably detailed sketch of the shooter. Within a week, the
sketch was released to the public, along with grainy steel
photos of the car from a nearby security camera.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
We knew that police in Seattle were looking for a
silver BMW and they were pulling them.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Over all over the city.

Speaker 10 (09:41):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yes, Police were desperate to stop the killer from striking again,
not knowing if or when he would. Two weeks went by,
and then a suspec surfaced who surprised everyone.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
When you see something like this from somebody who has
it all together.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
He's not crazy, he's just evil.

Speaker 11 (10:20):
Police are still looking for He was driving a silver
Yi his twenties or thirties.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Did witnesses say.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Plea for anyone with them?

Speaker 10 (10:27):
With me?

Speaker 6 (10:28):
In the two weeks that followed Yancey Nole's brutal execution,
cops received hundreds of tips about that dark haired suspect
in a silver sports car.

Speaker 12 (10:40):
It seemed at that time like everybody in the city
of Seattle was driving a BMWZ four or a Z three.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
Then on September fourteenth.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
A woman calls in an anonymous tip.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
For the first time, this mysterious man has a name.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
And she provides a name of din Bowman and his address,
which is less than ten blocks from the shooting site.
When we pulled up a photo of him matched the
description of our sketch.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Did his hairstyle match?

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yes? And the age description.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Match, and yet the twenty nine year old Din Bowman
appears to be the most unlikely of potential suspects. He's
a dazzling engineer with an inventive imagination.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
The golf ball.

Speaker 13 (11:32):
Hits the lever of this press, which drives the drill,
which spins the wire.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
With like this rude Goldberg contraption he created just forfon.

Speaker 13 (11:41):
It swings over and hits this water bottle. The bottle
of the water bottle is a magnetic plunger.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
The people that we've spoken to have described him as brilliant,
a genius. Others have titled him as a genius.

Speaker 13 (11:54):
Which then triggers this flamethrower.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Bowman was only a twelve year old when he entered college.
In his twenties, Bowman opened his own business, a boutique
engineering company called Vague Industries that specialized in robotics. And
then in two thousand and seven, Bowman met Jennifer Palm,
a successful dentist, at an education seminar. They were married

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a year later.

Speaker 11 (12:23):
I thought they were what I considered to be a
power couple, very very sophisticated.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Jessin Matta was a friend of the Bowman's hope. Were
they like as a.

Speaker 11 (12:31):
Couple, loving the both of them I think understood one another.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
But it was up to detectives Duffy and Clark to
figure out Din Bowman, and they quickly learned that he
had owned a BMW.

Speaker 12 (12:47):
We wanted to know does he still have that BMW's
it's still at his house, And immediately we came up
with the plan that we're going to set up a
surveillance on his residence, a steakout, a steakout.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
A tense week went by with no sign of the
BMW coming or going, but then the garage door opens
up just enough for the detectives to spot a silver
sports car.

Speaker 12 (13:15):
Based on that information, we're able to obtain a search warrant.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Before dawn on September twenty first, twenty twelve, as Din
and Jennifer were leaving for work, police swooped in to
arrest Din Bowman.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Din was placed in handcuffs and transported down to our office.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
So you know the police facility and everything is being recorded.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Okay, I would just let you know that.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Bowman has to wait two hours for detectives to arrive
to question him while he's killing time. Bowman doesn't appear
to be concerned. He enjoys some snacks and a cup
of coffee. Exasperated, Bowman complained, his precious time is being wasted.

Speaker 10 (14:08):
Yes, yes, so kind of getting a little annoyed at
how long this is taking.

Speaker 13 (14:13):
Do I need to like, sorry, it has to take as.

Speaker 12 (14:18):
Long as it takes, Okay, He was pretty confused about
the whole thing.

Speaker 8 (14:21):
It was kind of weird.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Bowman also didn't realize that in another room, his wife, Jennifer,
had agreed to answer questions from detectives Clark and Donnie,
have you heard of.

Speaker 12 (14:33):
Any murders like within a few blocks of your house
in the last few weeks.

Speaker 9 (14:37):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 12 (14:38):
You're not sure.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
It's a yes or no question.

Speaker 10 (14:42):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 12 (14:44):
We call it the I'm not sure interview.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (14:49):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 12 (14:50):
Because her responses were overwhelmingly I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
So you're honesty right now.

Speaker 10 (14:57):
Is paramount, and I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
But I can tell you.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Jennifer didn't know that the detectives had already inspected Din's
BMW and had discovered from these markings that the passenger
side window had been replaced. Remember, investigators were certain the
killer had fired through that glass.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
The first thing we did was open the passenger door,
and you could see glass shards in the well of
the door jam. Also within the garage, there was this
fresh smell of paint.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
That's because the BMW's silver rims had been painted black.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
What about the paint smell that we're smelling in there?

Speaker 10 (15:47):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Do you know anything that going on in your house?
For nearly four hours led all over.

Speaker 12 (15:54):
The fricking streets of Seattle, Okay?

Speaker 6 (15:56):
Investigators hammered Jennifer for answers.

Speaker 14 (16:00):
How do you sit in there?

Speaker 12 (16:01):
Planned them.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
While the interview was going on, investigators entered the Bowman's house,
which was surprisingly bare.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
We knew that Jennifer was the primary breadwinner in that household,
and we knew from serving some of our search warrants
that she made probably two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year. But when we got into the home, she
had hardly any bedroom furniture. Her mattress laid on the floor.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
As they went room to room, investigators discovered a small
arsenal of weapons and ammunition. Everything except the suspected murder weapon,
a nine millimeter glock When detectives finally got to Bowmen,
they hoped he would answer a few questions, but Bowman

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was smart enough to shut down the interview.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Do you want to talk to a lawyer? You want
to talk to us first?

Speaker 10 (16:55):
Well, I guess I'd like to call a lawyer.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
Bowman might have been done with the detectives, but they
were far from finished with him.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
You're going to be charged with a crime.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Of what?

Speaker 10 (17:09):
Murder of what?

Speaker 8 (17:13):
Of who?

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Murder of a human being?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, it was something to see. At least forty five
friends of murder victim Yancy Nole packed a raimit court
this morning to get a look at this man.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
You watch this man walk in and you see this
unassuming person, and you go, why, why, why would you
do this?

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Din Bowman has been in custody for four months for
the murder of Yancey Nol and at this hearing, Bowman
learns his bail is set at a stunning ten million dollars,
a sum he cannot make.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
He hasn't shown any sign of guilt or even fear.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
Brad Kenny is desperate for answers.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
It just feels you with so much anger.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
While Bowman appears stoic in court. Prosecutors say the alleged
killer has a quirky side that emerges in hundreds of
recorded jail house phone calls with his wife, Jennifer.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
They had pet names. Dinn was Bunny and Missus Bowman.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Jennifer was snuggles Bunny and snuggle.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Bunny and Snuggles.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
When they talk to each other, they talk and baby.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
Talk Bunny Bunny. How are you?

Speaker 13 (18:40):
I'm trying.

Speaker 10 (18:41):
How is my little snuckle cake? I just to wote
you in email.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
It was very strange, very strange.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Man.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
I know I don't have a snuggle You don't have
a snuggle plum next to you.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Everyone warned us, don't listen to the jail calls. Don't
listen to the jail calls. You'll want to throw up.

Speaker 10 (19:04):
I'm just going to say.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Meanwhile, back among the grown ups, detectives Frank Clark and
Dana Duffy were methodically building their homicide case against Bowmen.
They discovered that four years that tech savvy genius had
been downloading these books, articles, and videos to his computer
on the subject of death and murder.

Speaker 12 (19:33):
It's not that he just had a little bit of it.
He had tons of it.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
And then there was Bowman's obsession with this man bomb
Jaman's bomb, and it showed in Bowman's computer videos. That's
Din Bowman driving a car at high speeds around an
obstacle cores. And here he is blasting away in shooting

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demonstrations where he proved he was an expert marksman with
either hand.

Speaker 12 (20:10):
I don't believe the den Bowman got up that morning
thinking today's the day that I'm going to shoot somebody.
This situation presented itself somehow, But once it did that,
all his self training and research kicked in.

Speaker 15 (20:26):
We're going to talk about shooting through glass.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
And one of Bowman's videos, made by a firearms expert,
really shocked police.

Speaker 15 (20:33):
I've come into a situation where I feel threatened by
somebody off to my passenger side.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
It was a play by play of Nancy's murder.

Speaker 15 (20:43):
Of course I recognize, I come down, I grip, I
cross parallel, extend, touch press.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
If you want to know how to shoot somebody in
traffic from your very fancy sports car.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Is an awfully helpful video.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
He didn't even have to roll down his window.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
Prosecutors came to believe Bowman wanted to kill someone just
for the thrill of it. Why would he commit this
murder in broad daylight where there are witnesses around who
could see his car, perhaps see him.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
What's the fun of it. If there's no challenge, if
there's no witnesses, if there's no need to get away,
to speed off and fly through neighborhood streets and hide
your car in your garage, that was the fun for him.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Soon after the murder, police say that Bowman went to
his computer, where he had his vast library of murder
related books, including a rest Proof Yourself, how to cover.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
Up a murder, how to get rid of a gun,
how to get rid of gunshot residue.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
And police say Bowman now had an accomplice, Jennifer Bowman
aka Snuggles.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Do you understand how serious this is?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Right now?

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Jennifer. Jennifer to me, seemed very very nervous.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Tell us the truth.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Poor eye contact. I could see that she was shaky.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
Tell me the truth right now.

Speaker 8 (22:18):
I have told you.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Jennifer never asked for a lawyer and handed over her
purse where police found receipts that aided the investigation. Do
either of you have the belief that Jennifer had prior
knowledge of this attack.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
I don't think she had prior knowledge, but I believe
that at some point Din told her what happened. She
had to know something, because the next day she went
to Portland with him.

Speaker 13 (22:46):
Why did you go to Portland?

Speaker 10 (22:48):
It was just a little day trip to Little.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Rocha, a trip that led to this autoglass shop, where
police say Bowmen began to cover up his crime. His
wife by his side stand office. She didn't say much.
Repairman Jeff Shields, he just seemed like he needed a
window right away. Bowman told Shields that BMW window had
been shattered by a thief while he and Jennifer were

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eating in Portland.

Speaker 12 (23:14):
And what time of day was the window broken?

Speaker 7 (23:17):
We found it in the afternoon at approximately what puts
It was right up to eat lunch.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
But detectives say a restaurant receipt from Jennifer's purse told
a different story.

Speaker 12 (23:29):
They were never there for lunch, They went there at
dinner time.

Speaker 10 (23:33):
Well.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Three weeks later, the Bowman's visited a tire store in
northern Seattle. Manager Doug Haskett says Bowman used the name
Peter while his wife avoided eye contact. She was a
blonde and she just kind of looked at the ground.
She rarely wouldn't talk to anybody. Bowman bought four cheaper
tires to replace the expensive BMW tires. How would he

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get new tires.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Because during our investigation the media released that there were
tire tread tracks left at the scene.

Speaker 10 (24:07):
Why did you get new tires?

Speaker 9 (24:10):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
I will you marder?

Speaker 13 (24:12):
Were the other ones wore out?

Speaker 6 (24:14):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (24:15):
What if we put you on a polygraph test today.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
He'd feel it like a sack of potato.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
I mean, I can tell your line is looking at you.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Police say they later found the set of expensive, practically
new BMW tires inside Bowman's workshop at Vague Industries. The
murder weapon was never recovered, but prosecutors felt they had
enough evidence to try Din Bowmen for first degree murder,
and he would soon take the stand and tell a

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story he had long kept secret.

Speaker 13 (24:52):
If I didn't do something right then I was going
to die.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
Frank, what do we have here, Peter.

Speaker 12 (25:13):
We're in the evidence warehouse of the Seattle Police Department.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Two vehicles side by side, once again, just as they
were on that summer evening in August twenty twelve.

Speaker 12 (25:24):
This is Din Bahman's BMW Roster Z four and Yancy
Knowles super room.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
What brought them together is unclear. The result of their
encounter is not what goes through your mind when you
look inside this car.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Sadness, devastation for Yancey.

Speaker 12 (25:51):
This family lost a loving member. Murder is very ugly,
It's never pretty.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
And now, on November nineteenth, twenty fourteen, two years after
Yancy Nole was savagely gunned down, his alleged killer enters
the courtroom to face the charge of first degree murder.
Cleat is now in session.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
By the time of trial, he looked like he was thirteen.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Din Bowman is transformed. Gone is the confident, cocky young
man who first met with detectives.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Do you want to talk to a lawyer? You want
to talk to us first, Well.

Speaker 10 (26:32):
I guess I'd like to call to a lawyer.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
And in his place is what appears to be a
clean cut college student.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
This guy doesn't look like a killer, and that's not
at all uncommon for defendance to change their appearance in
order to appeal.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
To the jury.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Bowman's mother a native of Vietnam, and his father a
Boeing engineer are in court every day to support their
only child, but his cooing wife, Jennifer his snuggles is
nowhere to be seen.

Speaker 16 (27:04):
We are ready to begin opening statements.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Prosecutor Adrian McCoy tells jurors that the motive for murder
was in greed or jealousy.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
This was a fulfillment of a quest.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
But something far more macabre.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
A quest to know what it would be like to
kill someone.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
McCoy attempts to take the jury inside Bowman's mind by
showing these training videos recovered from his computer.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
We're going to talk about shooting through glass.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
From video to thousands of pages of research on killing
another person. Prosecutors paid a portrait of a premeditated murder.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
It was the equivalent of the Library of Congress on death.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Have you ever seen anything like this before in your career?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Not even close.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Why was all that stuff on his computer?

Speaker 8 (28:05):
He hoarded information.

Speaker 17 (28:07):
He had a lot of things on his computer that
are totally bizarre.

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Having possession of it doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 17 (28:14):
Mister Bowman was actually trying to create a library of
basically everything.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Bowman's lawyer, prominent defense attorney John Henry Brown, whose former
clients include serial killer Ted Bundy says there's no evidence
that Bowman ever read or watched any of these materials.

Speaker 17 (28:31):
There were thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of pages
about engineering techniques, but also there was all this bizarre
stuff that the prosecutors used in order to.

Speaker 8 (28:44):
Make up their motive.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
As the defense presents its case, Brown takes a big gamble.

Speaker 14 (28:52):
You swear for another penalty.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
In later trading, he puts DN Bowman on the stand.

Speaker 13 (29:00):
I felt like it was just this crazy, bad dream,
and I was just right. I was running from a monster.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
And Brown knows he's risking it all on Bowman's ability
to sway jurors and convince them that he was the
victim of road range.

Speaker 13 (29:17):
If I didn't do something right, then I was going
to die.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Bowman explains that it all began when he accidentally cut
off Yancey Noel on the interstate.

Speaker 10 (29:28):
There was sort of a.

Speaker 13 (29:30):
Stream of swearing. I think the phrase that caught my
attention was you better learn how to drive that fancy
card boy where you're gonna get yourself up.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
Bowman says. Yancey closely followed him off the interstate to
this traffic light where they both stopped.

Speaker 13 (29:55):
And it was that point when I got frim.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, that wham, Bowman says, was a wine bottle thrown
by Yancy that hit him in the head.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
He's an absolute liar. That's sacrilegious to Yancey would never
throw and waste wine on somebody like that.

Speaker 13 (30:12):
I remember seeing his eyes really like bulging and like
as he was kind of as he was yelling. I
would describe it as just like violent hatred that you
would I had only seen in the movies.

Speaker 8 (30:30):
Did you think it was possibly a gun? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (30:33):
Yeah, I was scared, fearing for his life. Bowman says
he pulled out his nine millimeter glock, pointed it at Yancy
and fired.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
You intentionally shot?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (30:48):
Was it your intent to kill him?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
No?

Speaker 8 (30:51):
Road rage is by definition not premeditation.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
And Bowman says he shot Yancy Nol in self defense.

Speaker 13 (30:59):
I remember opening my eyes seeing that I had the
gun in my hand and I had just dropped the
gun and stepped on the gas.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Though Bowman claims he was the victim, he didn't call
the police. Panicked, Bowman says he collected evidence from his car,
including the wine bottle and the gun, and threw it
all away, throwing away of the evidence that would support
his own story. This is a guy who's genius level IQ.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Right.

Speaker 17 (31:31):
Well, but yeah, but a lot of geniuses I know
don't have a lot of common sense.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
He threw away the evidence that you could show the
police to prove you were not a criminal.

Speaker 14 (31:39):
Right.

Speaker 13 (31:41):
I didn't think they would even believe me.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
But Prosecutor Kristin Richardson isn't buying a word of Bowman's story.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
They don't think that most husbands would go home to
their wives and say, oh my god, I almost got killed.
I figured the more that he talked, the worse it
was going to get for him.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
You're an expert shooter.

Speaker 16 (32:03):
What was your target?

Speaker 13 (32:06):
There was no aiming involved in this?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay, Well you did a pretty good job, didn't you,
because you hit him four times in the head, including
the temple.

Speaker 13 (32:12):
Right.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
That surprised me for three days. Richardson hammers away at Bowman's.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You lied to your parents, you lied to your wife.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
Right?

Speaker 8 (32:23):
Is that a question?

Speaker 6 (32:24):
But he never loses his composure.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
You have no trouble answering yes or no to mister Brown.
Is there something wrong with the way I asked questions
of you.

Speaker 13 (32:36):
No, it seems like a strange question.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, well that's the first note I think have gotten
from you, So I guess the point's been made. I
have nothing else.

Speaker 8 (32:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
You mentioned no answer to thy As din Bowman steps down,
the question is did he convince the jury that he
killed Yancy Noel to save his life?

Speaker 17 (32:57):
I think dem deeply believed if the jury would see
that self defense is justifiable homicide.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Or simply for the thrill.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Is he guilty of murdering the first degree? Yes?

Speaker 4 (33:33):
I will never forget Yancy.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
Every time he hikes this trail, Brad Kenny thinks of
his friend Yancey Noel.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
I really miss him. Is it never going to be over?

Speaker 4 (33:47):
And I'll always miss him? I mean, it's good to
be here, but it's it's really difficult.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
After three weeks and thirty one witnesses, Din Bowman's murder
trial is coming to a close.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
He hasn't shown one iota of remorse. He's just completely stoic.

Speaker 14 (34:12):
I think we're ready for the Jermys.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
On December ninth, twenty fourteen, more than two years after
Yancy noles murder and coincidentally, Din Bowman's thirty second birthday,
jurors begin deliberations.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's the worst part of the job, waiting for a verdict,
but it's just the nature of it.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
You always doubt yourself.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
One person not doubting himself is Din Bowman, as he
confides to his wife Jennifer in recorded jailhouse phone calls.

Speaker 16 (34:42):
We should chastise that a juris take longer than to one.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Jennifer has not appeared a single day of Bowman's trial,
but she stays in constant contact and has no doubt
whatsoever of his innocence.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
This is obvious to ac quit.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
How could they consider anything else.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
You'd have to be completely irrational to believe anything at else.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Be sated.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
Please.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
On day three, the jury returns.

Speaker 16 (35:14):
I understand the jury has reached the verdicts. I will
read the verdict for him.

Speaker 14 (35:20):
We the jury find the defendant, Thomas Bin Bowman, guilty
of the crime of murder and the first degree as
charged guilty.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
The jury didn't buy Din Bowman's.

Speaker 7 (35:34):
He admits he killed Noel, but said the three murder
required premeditation.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
It's a total surprise to Bowman, but sweet relief to
Yancey's girlfriend and his supporters, the verdict is read. What
was that moment like for Dinn?

Speaker 8 (35:49):
Well, he was so emotionally upset, he said, I can't
believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe it.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Three weeks later, a very different looking Din Bowman is
back in court for sentencing.

Speaker 8 (36:01):
Mister Bowman made some bad decisions.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
The once cocky boy genius is gone as the reality
of the guilty verdict sinks in, and his parents stepped
forward to beg the judge for mercy.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
I know this is my fault.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
Defense Attorney Brown must finish reading her statement.

Speaker 8 (36:27):
Our son's acts are our faults.

Speaker 17 (36:32):
My husband and I we provide and allowed him to
learn a gun for self protection.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Brown, a seasoned trial lawyer, can't help but show emotion
as Din's mother asks the judge to send her to
Prism in place of her only child.

Speaker 17 (36:50):
I please ask you to allow myself to substitute any
punishment by placing myself in Dinn's role.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
It was heartbreaking to watch his mother at sentencing. For
her to offer herself in his place to do his
punishment for him. That's real.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Moments later, it's Bowman's turn.

Speaker 8 (37:13):
Dam are you able to speak?

Speaker 6 (37:16):
But Yancey's girlfriend and his supporters refuse to listen.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
I'm disappointed that the Jews didn't believe me.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
And the first words out of Den's mouth when he's
asked to make a statement at sentencing is not about
his parents or his heartbroken mother, or Yancy's friends or family.
It's I can't believe the jury didn't believe me. That's
his focus.

Speaker 10 (37:47):
I don't envy your task of having to make the
burden of deciding my fate, and I'm sorry for placing
you in that situation. And all I could ask is
for your perth'syat and for your help.

Speaker 6 (38:09):
As the judge is about to deliver Bowman's sentence, he
has something he feels compelled to say.

Speaker 16 (38:16):
I feel very sorry for your parents, mister Bauman, and
I want to tell them that it is not their fault.
Mister Bauman is responsible for his own actions.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Bowman gets twenty nine years and one month, slightly less
than the maximum. The case against Inn Bowman is over,
but the police feel there's unfinished business. Was Jennifer misleading
or dishonest or lying at any point during this questioning? Yes,
she was.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
I would very much like her to be charged with
a crime.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
The crime of helping her husband cover up Yancey's murder. Frank,
would you like could be charged with the crime? Yes,
I would. Jennifer today has changed her name and her job.
She opened the door that we tracked her down in Seattle. Hey, Jennifer,
Peter Van sent forty eight hours, Why did you lie
to detectives? Why did you help your husband cover up

(39:18):
a murder? You can talk to us. No answer is
still Ultimately, the state attorney chose not to bring charges
against Jennifer, and she, in turn, has cut off all
ties with the man she once endearingly called her Bunny. Today,

(39:44):
the house the couple lived in sits empty. The two
cars at the heart of this case remain in a
police warehouse, but the memories of Yancey Noll remain as
alive as ever.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Wait b