Bobbie Ann Waymire:1972, Dayton, Ohio

   


   Bobbie Ann Waymire was born Bobbie Ann Carter on April 28th, 1937 in North Carolina. Her parents Sarah Ann (Smith) Carter and Robert E. Carter. 


    She married Thomas L. Waymire and the couple had three children. 


   The two were separated in October of 1972 and Bobbie was dating someone else. 

   

  Sunday night the 22nd or early Monday October the 23rd 1972, Bobbie left her boyfriend’s place to go home. But, she didn’t make it home. She was found near Fairborn, Ohio. That’s just a few minutes east of Dayton. 


  Bobbie had been strangled and sexually assaulted. 


  A serviceman from a nearby military base was arrested and questioned but never charged. Was that possibly her boyfriend? He was not identified in the newspapers. 


  Was her estranged husband involved? Possibly. He was never charged. 


  If this perpetrator was not the known men in her life, who could have done this? 


  What about Ralph Richard Howell? Just a few years ago he was linked through DNA to the murder of Cheryl Ann Thompson. He’s also thought to be responsible for the murders of Nancy Theobald, Victoria Hinscher (Uchniat) and Charmaine Stolla. Prosecutors took the unusual step of indicting him posthumously. They were that sure about his guilt. 


  I believe he killed many other women in Ohio and some who were murdered and dumped in Kentucky. Cheryl A. Hughes, Susan Gorman and Mary Susan Jacobs Carter are just a few.


  He delivered bulk shipments of a major Cincinnati newspaper. Bundles would have been stacked and tied with cord or rope. He used that cord to strangle his victims. 


  His father passed away in 1979. In that obituary it said that he and his father worked together for four years delivering papers. Which four years? How did that impact his killings? Would he still kill with his Dad around? Was his Dad with him full time? Was his Dad in a different vehicle on some other route?


  His only run-in with the law in his lifetime came in 1983. He stopped to offer a woman a ride. She declined. He goaded and manipulated and shamed her into getting into his truck. Before she was even all the way in he had a rope around her neck, strangling her. She managed to talk him into letting her go. 


  She went to the police and even with so many unsolved stranglings of women in Ohio; Howell pled down to a lesser charge and only got probation. 


  I believe he likely drove a circular route north from Cincinnati up through Dayton then heading east through Springfield, Columbus (or further east) then south through Chillicothe and turning west again at the Ohio River. He may even have dipped into Kentucky for that last west bound leg. That route gave him so many opportunities to abduct women, assault and murder them and leave them in different towns or different states. 


  Ralph Richard Howell died in an auto accident in Kentucky on March 29th, 1985. At the time of his death he lived in Covington, Kentucky but still worked for the newspaper. 


  Bobbie Ann Waymire was simply living her life in 1972.  Like many women then she had married young and had children. The marriage didn’t last. She was still growing and learning and figuring out life. 


  Bobbie Ann Waymire is buried in the county of her birth, Lenoir County, North Carolina. 


   Rest in peace Bobbie


Submit a tip here:https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Waymire



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