A Polk County man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the brutal murder of his former fiancee, who was stabbed 20 times and shot twice before being left in her car to die.
Tammy Chambers Wolfe, 50, was found dead at the Polk Memory Gardens on U.S. 278 in April 2017, the Polk County Standard Journal reported.
Credit: Alvis Miller & Son Funeral Home
Credit: Alvis Miller & Son Funeral Home
Roe Bowman, her ex-boyfriend, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional five years after being convicted of her murder earlier this month, said Jack Browning, district attorney for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit.
“They were kind of on-again, off-again,” Browning told AJC.com on Tuesday. “I think at the time they were off-again, but they had remained acquaintances.”
Bowman wasn’t formally charged with Wolfe’s murder until 2018, authorities said.
Browning said there were a couple of things that helped prosecutors secure a conviction in the case.
The first were phone records that showed Wolfe and Bowman had communicated in the hours before her death. The second, he said, was that Wolfe used her own blood to spell out part of her killer’s name on the inside of her windshield as she died.
“After she had been stabbed and shot, she had written the letters ‘R’ and ‘O’ with her blood on the windshield of her car,” Browning said.
According to her obituary, the Cedartown woman lived her entire life in Polk County and enjoyed riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles in her free time. She had two children and was a grandmother of three.
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