Supervisor Eric Bowling
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Ohio
End of Watch: Thursday, February 2, 1984

Biographical Info
Age: 62
Tour of Duty: 8 years
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Assault
Date of Incident: Thursday, February 2, 1984
Weapon Used: Blunt object
Suspect Info: Sentenced to death

Supervisor Bowling was beaten with a ten-gauge bar of sheet metal, which caused his death. Immediately after the crime, the inmate admitted the murder to a corrections officer.

The inmate who beat him was a former death row inmate who was released from death row in the early 1970s when Ohio's death penalty was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was tried and convicted of aggravated murder and again sentenced to death for the murder of Supervisor Bowling. In January 2005 he died while still incarcerated.