30: MURDER: Leah Rowlands
Detective Perspective
Derrick Levasseur & Square Mile Studios
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On March 10, 1997, Leah Rowlands was working at the Amoco gas station off Interstate 80 in Cozad, Nebraska. Just after 10:30am, a white male with short dark hair, in his late 20s to mid 30s, standing at around 6ft to 6ft, 3in tall, robbed Leah, then shot her three times with a 9 mm. One minute later, he drove off in a red, two door Grand Am car, possibly an S-E model from 1992 to 1995.
If you have any information in this case, please call the Cozad Police at (308) 784-2366.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And On the morning of March 10th, 1997, Leah Rowlands, a 41-year-old mother of two, worked at the Amoco gas station just off Interstate 80 in |
| 0:36.6 | Cazaa, Nebraska. |
| 0:39.0 | Before the afternoon arrived, Lee was found shot to death behind the counter. |
| 0:43.0 | When police reviewed the Amico surveillance footage, |
| 0:46.6 | they saw that just after 1030 a.m. |
| 0:49.2 | a white barefoot man robbed Leah. |
| 0:52.2 | After she gave him $150, he ordered her to lie on the ground behind the |
| 0:57.2 | counter. He then pulled out a gun, leaned over the counter, and shot her three times. |
| 1:05.0 | After the shooting, the killer went back to his car and drove away, never to be seen again. |
| 1:11.0 | It's been nearly 27 years since Leah was killed and the investigators are still |
| 1:15.8 | searching for the person responsible. You're going to be. Hey everyone welcome back to Detective Perspective. My name is Derek Lovasser. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective. |
| 1:55.0 | Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case in story format. |
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| 2:09.0 | them directly and maybe you can help solve the case. |
| 2:12.0 | And if you're someone who's interested in true crime, |
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