Suspect Is Arrested in Slaying of Woman
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A murder suspect profiled last week on “America’s Most Wanted” was arrested Friday in Panorama City on suspicion of killing of a Van Nuys woman who disappeared as she was driving home from Arizona in 1990, authorities said.
Billy Ray Riggs, 43, and his wife, Hilda Sims, 28, were arrested about 12:15 p.m. as they drove up to an apartment building on Van Nuys Boulevard near Plummer Street, Los Angeles police said.
Riggs is suspected of killing Jamie Michele Bowie, 24, who was last seen in April, 1990, on Interstate 10 in Arizona as she drove from Phoenix to her home in Van Nuys. Her bullet-riddled body was found a month later near Indio. Sims is being held for questioning.
The segment on “America’s Most Wanted” generated 173 phone calls.
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