Kimberly Ann Bowman Ruggles was 23 when she was raped and stabbed to death on January 6, 1987, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She worked as a taxi driver near Fort Bragg; her body was found in a wooded area and her cab was located abandoned nearby.

The murder was later linked to Ronald Adrin Gray, a former U.S. Army Private stationed at Fort Bragg, whose series of rapes and killings in 1986–1987 included other victims such as Army Private Laura Lee Vickery-Clay and Campbell University student Linda Jean Coats. A military court sentenced Gray to death in 1988 for multiple crimes including Ruggles’s rape and murder, and his case has remained on death row through a prolonged appeals process. Kimberly’s father, Edward Bowman, has publicly urged that the sentence be carried out.

Anyone who knew Kimberly, worked with her, or has information about the events of January 6, 1987, is asked to come forward.