Victim's adult son claimed he drove up from San Carlos Sonora Mexico to take his 83 year old mother to Sears in Tucson Arizona. He claimed he dropped off his mother at the entrance to the store, and went to park his truck, but when he went inside his mother was gone. He reportedly searched for her in the store and adjoining shopping mall for six hours before reporting her missing. An extensive search was conducted in which photos of Mrs. Bowers were shown, but no one in the mall reported having seen her. None of Mrs. Bowers friends in Mexico knew of her plans to travel to Tucson, and their friends in Tucson were not expecting them. She has never been seen again.