Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 23

Pensacola News Journal 23A Sunday, February 9. 1986 Foul play suspected from an anonymous voice on the fate of Tim Lowe, their 23-year-old son who vanished a month ago, on Jan. 3, probably from Echo Bowling Lanes on North Palafox Highway. One voice, not saying whether the young sheetrock worker is alive or dead, said he was handcuffed to a tree and covered in syrup; another said he was 100 miles north of Pensacola, 60 yards off the interstate; another said he was being forced to sell cocaine. The Lowes don't have any idea what has happened, don't know who their son hung out with, and are braced for the worst.

"All I know is that he's gone," Vivian Lowe said last week. "All I know is my young'un's missing." And that's about all Deputy Dove and the homicide investigator know for sure, though they have received several unconfirmed calls that Lowe about 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, with brown hair and a small scar on the right cheekbone was taken into a wooded area and tied to a tree, possibly in a drug-related incident. "We've had so many rumors we're not sure where he was taken, or even if he was taken from the bowling alley," said Dove. The Lowes say their son, who lived with them off Nine-Mile Road and had a high school-age girlfriend, caused no problems. And, whenever he could, he gave money to his disabled father and nursing assistant mother, who now find themselves behind on their rent, power bill and telephone bill.

Said his father, "He was a good young'un. We know he smoked a little pot, but he didn't do it here." Said his mother, "I've seen him get in his car, turn around, come back and kiss me goodbye. If he could get to a phone, he'd call me." If Tim Lowe is dead, his mother wants him back. "If they killed my child," she said, "why don't they let us know where he's at so we can bury him?" Becky Powell wanted a good time, that night of Jan. 29, 1984.

But it may have been the night she died. Powell, a 41-year-old divorcee, and her sister went to the Flora Bama Lounge on Perdido Key Road and then Richey's Bar and Package Store for a few drinks, said Sgt. Vic Phillips, who, with Deputy Dove, has worked on the case. At Richey's, friends introduced Powell to a man. And at about closing time, Powell told her sister she wanted to go to a party, according to what Phillips has pieced together.

There the story breaks down. "Originally, we had some people saying they saw her get in a car," Phillips said last week. "But then they changed their story And so at this point we don't have a workable case We don't even have anyone who saw her leave with the guy." Nevertheless, the man, a biker with a lengthy criminal record, was questioned. "He said he meets a lot of people and doesn't remember being in the bar," said Phillips. "And I can't put her in a car with him." Tony Powell, Rebecca's 25-year-old daughter, believes her mother is dead.

"My mind tells me she's not coming back," 6he said last week. "She always planned all the holidays in our family. "My mom couldn't stay gone and not know what it did to her family. It's probably worst on my grandmother. We talk about it every day, and for my grandmother, it's like it happened yesterday." Tony remembers her mother 5-foot-4, about 130 pounds, with curly brunette hair and freckles as a witty woman, a romantic who loved to watch sad movies and go to the beach.

And she has her own romantic notion about her mother walking in the front gate. "There are people out there, people who are responsible," Tony said. "And they're walking the streets, and my mom's not here." at the bus station and did away with him." And she believes that an acquaintance of hers with whom her son lived for a while a man she refers to as "the devil" may have arranged for his death. "I feel that this man was involved in something and that Lloyd found out more than he cared for him to know I think he's the one who sent my son the bus ticket." Jacobs says she thinks about her son "every day, every day, every day." Last week, she got a jolt when Dove told her that he had sent her son's dental records to the Mississippi medical examiner, who is attempting to identify a body. Though the chances of a match are slim, Jacobs is sitting by her telephone, waiting for the word from Dove.

Bobby and Vivian Lowe cringe every time the telephone rings. Often, it's a cryptic message The next day, on Sept. 1, Sparks said, Starkie told her that he had taken Lucie to Mississippi, somewhere between Gulfport and at the beginning of July. And furthermore, he said, he had been -seeing her every week and several days before had met her at a Best Western motel in Alabama and given her money. On Sept.

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Simpson also talked to Starkie. Initially, when she first talked to him, she said, he told her that Lu-. cie was on her way to West Virgin-. ia with another woman to visit a I brother. Simpson thought that was unusual because on such visits, her sister normally stopped first in Maryland to see her.

Later, Simpson said, she again talked to Starkie and he told her that Lucie had been out-of-town I but that he had recently met her at a motel and given her money. "It's not like my sister to do this," Simpson said. "She was too family oriented." Some of Lucie Starkie's friends and neighbors indicate that her husband has given other explana-; tions; and, to a person, they're un-j settled about the circumstances of their friend's disappearance. Cleta Eick, a neighbor, said that Starkie told her Lucie had needed i to get away and that he had taken her to visit friends on the other side of Biloxi. And for some weeks afterwards, he called her every i Monday morning and said that he had seen Lucie and she was doing well.

Sometime later, Eick said, Star- kie told her that Lucie had gone to West Virginia and was staying i with friends and selling cosmetics. Still later, he told her he took a week off from work and went to West Virginia but saw Lucie for only about 30 minutes because she didn't want to see him. Eick said she can't get Lucie out of her mind. "She couldn't just walk away without someone see- ing," she said. "She had sold cosmetics for years; everybody in this area knew her.

I think about her, and I think, God knows, some-! body on Earth must care about this woman." Pat Bellew, who also knew Lucie well, said she called Starkie in July after not hearing from his wife for several weeks. "Her husband told me she was down in Florida visiting some friends, and she was hav-i ing a good time, and she would i write me," Bellew said last week. 1 But Bellew never heard from her 1 friend, and she said, "I don't have any idea that she's alive. She would have gotten in touch with her family or friends." Marylin Ward, Lucie's manager jj in the cosmetics business, said she doesn't know what to make of the situation. "It's real weird," she said.

"I try not to even think about it. It's unsettling to think what might have happened." Delores Jacobs of Pace believes her son took a bus to his death. On July 29, 1984, Jacobs took 32-year-old Lloyd Gilsdorf to a Pensa-cola bus station and watched him 5 board a bus for New Orleans. Sev-eral days before, he had told his mother, he had received a tele-y phone call from an offshore oil company offering him a job, a man I in Houston had sent him a one-' way pre-paid bus ticket, and someone was going to meet him in New Orleans and take him to the heli-J copter. "I was real happy for him," Jacobs recalled last week.

"He had just gotten a divorce, lost everything, and he was trying to find a job to get back on his feet." But when she didn't hear from her son for more than three months, Jacobs became concerned. "I've got seven children," said the divorcee, "and none have ever left home for any time without calling me. In trying to discover her son's whereabouts, Jacobs wrote a tered letter to the man in Houston who paid for the bus ticket. The letter was returned undeliverable, and on Jan. 10, 1985, she reported him missing.

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