The Abduction of Mari Ann Fowler
During his incarceration, Fowler's second wife, Mari Ann Fowler (born April 12, 1937), disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002. She was abducted from the parking lot of a fast-food outlet in Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish, where she had stopped while headed to Beaumont to visit her husband. The abduction was partially photographed by a security camera. Fowler was never found, and was declared legally dead by a Louisiana state court judge in May 2004.
At the time she vanished, Fowler was an education consultant. A former teacher, she had worked more than a quarter of a century for the Louisiana Department of Education in various capacities, including assistant state superintendent for research and development. She first attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond but received her bachelor's degree in English and speech from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then the University of Southwestern Louisiana). She also held a master's degree in education supervision from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and a doctorate in education administration from Nova Southeast University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
On August 27, 2005, Fowler held a memorial service for his wife in the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in her native Hammond (Tangipahoa Parish). In addition to her husband, MariAnn was survived by her then 90-year-old mother, Rose Santangelo (1914–2006) and a sister, Jo Ann O'Neil, both of Hammond; a son from a previous marriage, John A. Pritchett (born 1959), and two granddaughters, Chelsea Pritchett and Baylea Pritchett, all of Brusly in West Baton Rouge Parish.
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