ReJean "Patrick" Bowman,Missing, April 15, 2005 NY
Name: ReJean Joseph Bowman Classification: Endangered Missing Adult Alias / Nickname: Patrick Date of Birth: April 27, 1958 Date Missing: April 15, 2005 From City/State: Kiamesha Lake, NY Missing From (Country): USA Age at Time of Disappearance: 46 Gender: Male Race: White Height: 70 inches Weight: 200 pounds Hair Color: Lt. Brown Hair (Other): Balding. Eye Color: Green Complexion: Light Identifying Characteristics: Scar on nose, scar on calf of leg (unknown which leg), nose previously broken. Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Patrick was last seen at approximately 3:30am leaving his residence on foot in the vicinity of Route 42 & Krier Ln. in Kiamesha Lake, NY. He has a medical condition and needs medication. Investigative Agency: Sullivan County Sheriff's Department Phone: (845) 794-7100 Investigative Case #: 2005-0838 Print a poster: http://www.projectjason.org/aan/AAN_ReJeanBowman.pdf

Still no trace of Patrick Bowman By Ramsey Al-Rikabi Times Herald-Record ral-rikabi@th-record.com July 18, 2005 Kiamesha Lake – Early one Thursday in April, a big guy named Patrick Bowman scraped together a dollar for a cup of coffee. With a packet of sleeping pills in his pocket, he walked out of his house into the cold dark before sunrise. He was heading to the Dunkin' Donuts less than a half-mile away. Then he vanished. A lifetime of mental illness seemed to end with a sudden and silent question mark. "No matter how bad things were, no matter what happened," his father Jim says three months later, "he would call." A slender 74-year-old with watery eyes, Jim, wearing white shorts and a T-shirt, points to the floor of his living room. "Drop an anchor down right here," he says, "draw a circle a mile and a half around, and you'll probably find a body." Patrick lived with his father in a gray apartment complex called Waterways, next to Kiamesha Lake. It was just the two of them since Eileen, mother and wife, died four years ago. Jim looks through the screen door to the small porch Patrick never walked back up. "The thing that I don't understand is that there's no body." At 47, Patrick was an overgrown boy; he wanted a family someday, Jim says, but he couldn't hold a job or take care of a grown-up life. In and out of hospitals, on and off prescription drugs, like the Ambien sleeping pills he left with. And in the past few years, a crack habit Jim thinks Patrick picked up to make friends, which he never seemed to have. Maybe against his own best judgment – "no matter how bad things were" – Jim always took care of Patrick. "They said 20 years ago, 'If you live with him, you'll be as crazy as he is,'" Jim says. What should he have done, send him to a group home? Kick him out on the streets? "Whatever label came along, he seemed to pick it up," Jim says. "I don't know. Bi-polar. Paranoid schizophrenic. Whatever." The label at the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department for Patrick is File 6, the code for a missing person. No one in the state police helicopter saw him, and the K-9 unit didn't find him after he was reported missing. No one found a trace – not Jim, not the Monticello police or the sheriff's deputies, not the state troopers or Monticello firefighters. "We thought that when the camps opened and the kids got into the woods we would hear something," Detective Don Starner of the sheriff's department says. Most other missing-person files get resolved in a few days – they come home or call. Not Patrick. Nobody saw him at Dunkin' Donuts. Nobody saw him at the Fitness Factory later that morning, where he worked out almost daily. Nobody has seen or heard from him since he walked out of the house that cold dark morning of April 14. His dental records are with state police in Albany. His case is in the FBI's National Crime Information Center. On Web sites that list missing people, Patrick's picture and vital statistics are posted: 5 feet, 11 inches. 210 pounds. Green eyes. Light brown hair. Starner points to a fat folder on the floor of his office. Sullivan County's only other active missing person case dates to 1973. Mitchel Weiser, 16, and Bonita Bickwit, 15, disappeared on their way from Narrowsburg on the Delaware River to a concert in Watkins Glen, about 150 miles away. "We're at a standstill," Starner says of Patrick. "The only thing we know is that he left that morning to get a cup of coffee." His family hung fliers in gas stations and in grocery stores that say his nickname was Rejean, that he had a scar on his nose and that he was mentally ill. It's been three months and those fliers are starting to disappear. http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2005/07/18/ralmissi.htm

ReJean Joseph Bowman Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: April 15, 2005 from Kiamesha Lake, New York Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: April 27, 1958 Age: 46 years old Height and Weight: 5'10 - 5'11, 200 - 210 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Light brown hair, green eyes. Bowman is balding. He has scars on his calf and his nose and his nose has previously been broken. Bowman goes by the first name Patrick and some accounts refer to him by that name. Medical Conditions: Bowman has been diagnosed with multiple mental problems, including bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, and is in need of medication. He also has a history of crack cocaine abuse. Details of Disappearance Bowman was last seen at approximately 3:30 a.m. on April 15, 2005, leaving his residence at Waterways, an apartment complex in the vicinity of Route 42 and Krier Lane in Kiamesha Lake, New York. He was carrying a dollar and planned walk to a Dunkin' Donuts half a mile away and get a cup of coffee. He has never been heard from again. Bowman was carrying a bottle of Ambien prescription sleeping pills at the time of his disappearance. Bowman lived with his father at the time of his disappearance; his mother is deceased. His father believes he may be homeless and he is concerned for Bowman's welfare due to his medical conditions. Bowman's case remains unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Sullivan County Sheriff's Department 845-794-7100 http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bowman_rejean.html