On May 3, 1992 around 1:00 a.m., Sheila Swanson, 19, and Melissa Sanders, 17, were last seen making a call from a payphone near the Beverly Beach State Park where they had been camping. Their bodies were later discovered on October 10, 1992 by hunters in a wooded area near Eddyville, Oregon. On January 28, 1995 around 1:00 a.m., Jennifer Esson, 16 and Kara Leas, 16, were last seen walking on NW 56th Street in Newport, Oregon walking toward Highway 101 near Moolack Beach after leaving a friends house. Their strangled bodies were later discovered on February 15, 1995, by loggers in a wooded area, covered up with brush. On June 28, 1995, Fowler was arrested following an incident which involved a woman jumping out of a window in the Newport Oregon Tides Inn Motel with a rope still tied to her ankle. She survived the attack and reported her tale to the local police. On January 8, 1996, Fowler was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, coercion, assault in the fourth degree, and menacing. He was sentenced to 195 months (16 years, 3 months) with the possibility of parole. On September 25, 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Lincoln County District Attorney Rob Bovett named Bobby Jack Fowler as a suspect in three of the E-Pana murders. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victims. In May 2006, Fowler died at the age of 66 in Oregon State Penitentiary from lung cancer. His body was cremated.