RHONDA Bowie was a intercourse employee who was stabbed to dying by the Eyeball Killer. 

Her dying by the hands of the evil assassin is dramatized within the new Lifetime film Trying to find a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story, which reveals how a rookie cop introduced the killer to justice. 

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Horrifying crime

Rhonda was a intercourse employee who operated in Oak Hill, Texas, when she was stabbed greater than 20 instances by an unknown killer in October 1988. 

Her killer is believed to be Charles Albright, a identified assassin who was later discovered to have murdered a intercourse employee earlier than eradicating her eyes. 

Though Rhonda’s eyes weren’t eliminated, she is believed to be the primary of Albright’s victims. 

Albright was solely confirmed to have killed one sufferer, Shirley Williams, however he stays the lead suspect in Rhonda’s case.

Not a lot is thought about Rhonda’s life earlier than her tragic dying in October 1988. 

The lifetime of a killer

Albright was born on August 10, 1933, in Amarillo, Texas. 

He was adopted by Delle and Fred Albright who launched him to taxidermy. 

Albright turned obsessive about the observe and was significantly within the technique of eradicating eyeballs. 

He graduated from highschool early, on the age of 15, however had a number of run-ins with the legislation due to a string of petty thefts. 

Later, he was expelled from North Texas College on the age of 16, for possessing stolen money, a rifle and two handguns. 

Albright additionally sexually assaulted the daughter of certainly one of his pals, earlier than murdering Rhonda.

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The Eyeball Killer

Mary Lou Pratt was the killer’s second sufferer and, like Rhonda, she was a intercourse employee. 

She was additionally working within the Oak Hill neighborhood, on the time of her dying, however the method of her homicide differed to Rhonda’s. 

Mary was shot by her killer and was discovered by police to have had her eyeballs eliminated with surgical precision. 

Susan Peterson, the killer’s third sufferer, was murdered on the identical road as Mary and likewise had her eyes eliminated. 

At this level, it was clear that there was an lively serial killer within the space who was taking his sufferer’s eyes. 

A person was lastly arrested after the homicide of Shirley Williams, a intercourse employee whose eyes have been additionally taken. 

Charles Albright was convicted for Shirley’s homicide due to the efforts of Regina Smith, a rookie police officer who joined the case after Mary’s homicide. 

He was not convicted for Rhonda, Mary or Susan’s murders because of a scarcity of enough proof however he stays the prime suspect of their circumstances.