HUNG JURY TRIGGERS ROBERT BOWMAN MISTRIAL

ONE JUROR said it was 10-2 to convict Robert Bowman, 75, in the 1967 sex slaying of Eileen Adams. But in the end the two holdouts would not be moved. We will take a guess: CSI effect. It's believed the prosecution is anxious to retry Bowman. MORE IN THE TOLEDO BLADE

WILL EILEEN ADAMS FINALLY GET JUSTICE MONDAY?

THE FATE of Robert Bowman will be determined Monday. That's when the prosecution and defense present their final arguments in the case of the 75-year-old accused killer. The old creep is charged with first-degree murder in the 1967 sex strangling of Eileen Adams in Toledo. The 14-year-old was last seen a week before Christmas on a city bus. Her body was found in January 1968 in a field in rural Michigan. Her hands were tied in front of her and her ankles were bound with a cord that attached to her neck. From the back of her shattered skull protruded a nail.
The defense called just one witness Friday: Julie Heinig, who works at a private DNA lab. She testified in

ROBERT BOWMAN ON DNA: 'DOESN'T MEAN I KILLED HER'

THE HUNT for Eileen Adams' killer took decades. Cops chased hundreds of tips, interviewed scores of suspects and always, maddeningly came up empty. Adams, 14, disappeared on December 18, 1967 and her body was discovered in a field in January 1968.
Now, Robert Bowman, 75, is on trial in Toledo for the sickening sex slaying of the pretty schoolgirl. Cold case Det. Bart Beavers testified that only one person has ever linked anyone to Eileen's cruel killing: Bowman's ex-wife Margaret.
Beavers reopened the case in 2006 and testified (he was the last prosecution witness) he reviewed

ROBERT BOWMAN'S EX: EILEEN ADAMS HANGED NUDE

THE YOUNG girl was hanging naked and the woman who saw her was sickened--and afraid. The former wife of suspected killer Robert Bowman testified in Toledo at his trial for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Eileen Adams, 14, in 1967. Margaret Bowman told the court they had just moved into their new home when she heard strange sounds in her basement. She said: "I saw a young girl hanging on the wall with mattresses all around her, hanging like Jesus." MORE ON THE ROBERT BOWMAN MURDER TRIAL