Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Ohio
End of Watch: Thursday, February 2, 1984
Age: 62
Tour of Duty: 8 years
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Assault
Date of Incident: February 2, 1984
Weapon Used: Blunt object
Suspect Info: Sentenced to death
Supervisor Eric Bowling was beaten to death with a ten-gauge bar of sheet metal at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
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. He died in January 2005 while still incarcerated.
Supervisor Bowling was a United States Navy World War II veteran. He was survived by his wife.