The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 1)

Published: Sept. 5, 2022, 7 a.m.

b"Episode 235: On February 22, 2002, a vehicle was found in the ditch off the Trans-Canada highway near Boston Bar, B.C.\\nThe car was registered to 61-year-old mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell, who was nowhere around the car. RCMP obtained a key to Diana\\u2019s Kelowna townhouse and went inside finding the woman partially clothed body underneath some mattresses and furniture. She\\u2019d been hogtied, raped, beaten and strangled.\\nPolice quickly determined that Ronald Leal Fowler, 31, was a person of interest in the murder. Fowler, father of one of Diana\\u2019s grandchildren after a brief relationship with Diana\\u2019s eldest daughter, Fowler was later dramatically captured in Vancouver. He was then charged and in 2006 was convicted of first degree murder.\\nDiana Russell's daughter Valerie MacPherson kindly shared her writings about her family's pain around the time of the murder and the twenty years since. In part 2 we will hear from Diana's grandson, Collin Lucksinger, as he shares first hand his thoughts and feelings around Diana's murder.\\nSources:\\nFacebook \\u2014 Biography of Diana Russell\\nSearch Castanet News - Ronald Fowler\\n2006 BCSC 1215 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII\\n2006 BCSC 1214 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII\\n2005 BCSC 1876 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII\\n2005 BCSC 1875 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII\\n2005 BCSC 1874 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII\\nCN BC: Drug Experts Differ Over Blackouts - Rave.ca\\nFemicide\\nRamsReef \\u2014 Twitch\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"