A 72-year-old man wanted in connection with a 41-year-old murder case involving an Ohio girl who was held captive in a fruit cellar, raped and tortured before she was killed, is scheduled to appear in Riverside Superior Court today for an extradition hearing.

``The brutality and unsettling way in which this young girl was murdered cries out for justice,'' said Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco last week.

Robert ``Bo'' Brent Bowman is being held on a murder warrant at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, according to jail records.

Bowman was arrested Thursday in Cathedral City when two District

Attorney's Office investigators, working on an unrelated case, noticed a man riding a bike and thought he was a person wanted on a local subpoena, authorities said.

The investigators, who were joined by Cathedral City police officers, interviewed the man, identified him as Bowman and discovered he was wanted for murder in Ohio and had been featured recently on Fox's ``America's Most Wanted'' for the murder of 14-year-old Eileen Adams, said District Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Jeandron.

Authorities did not disclose what Bowman was doing in the Coachella Valley but said he has been quoted as saying he preferred warmer climates.

Prosecutors provided reporters transcripts of the ``America's Most Wanted'' TV show and Web site that outlined the background of the case.

Adams, a freshman at Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio, vanished December 18, 1967, and was most likely abducted after she stepped off a school bus and headed to her sister's house, according to ``America's Most Wanted.''

Adams told a friend she was going Christmas shopping but was never seen again.

About six weeks later, on Jan. 31, 1968, Adams' frozen body -- clothed,
wrapped in a mattress with hands and feet bound -- was found in a field in
nearby Monroe County, Mich., according to investigators.

She had a telephone cord looped around her neck and a forehead wound
where her attacker had hammered a nail into her skull after her death,
according to AMW.

In December 1981, there was a break in the case when Bowman's wife contacted the Toledo Police Department and told them her husband had murdered a girl in 1967, investigators said.

His wife gave investigators chilling details, including how Adams was kept alive in the fruit cellar of their basement, ``hanging like Jesus,'' naked, gagged and bound to the wall. The girl was down there for days and even
weeks, investigators believed.

The wife attempted to help Adams down off the wall, but before she
could, the girl screamed and Bowman was alerted, according to AMW.

When his wife questioned him about it, she said Bowman went downstairs
and killed Adams, then made her help him dump the body in a farmer's field in
Michigan, investigators said.

After hearing the wife's story, police tracked Bowman down in Florida in
1982 and interviewed him, investigators said. Bowman was homeless and living
in a burned-out restaurant with roaches, rats and snakes, all of which he named
and treated like pets, according to investigators.

Bowman never confessed to the crime, but he never denied it,
investigators said. Nevertheless, evidence at the time was insufficient to
prosecute him and he soon vanished from Florida.

In September 2006, Adams' father met an off-duty Toledo police sergeant
at dinner and told him about the case. The sergeant, Mike McGee, promised to
look into it.

A cold case detective who worked with McGee pulled the case file and
found there was DNA evidence left behind: a small sample of semen left in the
victim's underwear. But 1980s technology had not been sufficiently developed to
make use of the evidence, investigators said.

A DNA match was made in 2006 when officers tracked down Bowman's
daughter and did a reverse paternity test on her, according to ``America's Most
Wanted.'' A murder warrant was then issued for the suspect.