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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Percilla Bowers-Badial

Year
1985
Where
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

Percilla (Badial) Bowers, a 19 year old, was last seen by her family hitchhiking on Highway 85/87 in September 1984. On August 12, 1985, her remains were found in a shallow grave on Pine Oaks Road.

From the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cold case file. Records change. The source is the authority.

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