HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Donnie Lee Roberts Jr., a Natchitoches native convicted in his girlfriend’s 2003 slaying in Texas, was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting the woman and taking items from her home to sell or trade to support his drug habit.
Roberts was condemned for the fatal shooting of Vicki Bowen, 44, at her East Texas home. At the time of his arrest for the October 2003 killing, Roberts had violated his probation for a robbery conviction in Louisiana by fleeing to Texas after dropping out of a drug treatment program.
Texas authorities said Roberts apparently met Bowen, a dental assistant, at a bar and moved in with her at her home on Lake Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston. Their relationship soured because Roberts wasn’t working and was abusing drugs and alcohol, investigators said, and he shot Bowen after she refused his demand for money.
Roberts was arrested at a suspected crack house in Livingston when a truck missing from Bowen’s home was spotted there the same day Bowen’s body was discovered.
“He was cooperative and confessed several times,” District Attorney Lee Hon said. “He was saying he wanted the death penalty.”
After he was arrested in Texas, Roberts also confessed to the 1992 murder of Archie “Al” Crow Jr. in Natchitoches Parish. After his confession, Roberts was indicted for Crow’s murder but never was brought to Louisiana to stand trial.
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