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Frederick "Fred" Bowman, more commonly known as Freebo, is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Juan Ryness) of the third season in the Showtime television series Dexter.
He is a low-end drug dealer and pimp and the murderer of two college girls who got away with his crimes due to a bad warrant. His stalking and eventual murder by Dexter Morgan causes a chain reaction of events, involving George King and others.
He is portrayed by Mike Erwin.
Biography[]
History[]
Fred Bowman, also commonly known as Freebo is a local drug dealer. He also has priors for drug possession and illegal parking. He was a suspect in strangling two college girls to death and severely beating up a man, who dropped the charges. The only reason he got off on the murders was because of a failed warrant. A popular, yet minor drug dealer, he had at least 9 associates: Oscar Prado (A youth center coach), Felipe Cepeda (A pot dealer), Tilly (A homeless heroin addict), Teegan Campbell (His heroin addicted girlfriend), Wendell Owens (His doorman), Zack Adelman (A parolee), Javier Garza (A local pimp who gives Freebo one of his drug addicted girls for his sexual desires), Lookout Kid on Bike (A person who notifies Wendell) and George King (A tree trimmer who later became a serial killer).
Dexter[]
Dexter Morgan first visits him claiming to want to buy drugs from him. He is then seen fighting Oscar Prado at his house when Dexter goes there to kill Freebo. His unexpected visit allowed Freebo to break free and runs for his life but Dexter kills Prado after he turns his attention of him. Dex kills Oscar after he attacks him, leaving his body at Bowman's house. This leads the police to believe Freebo killed Oscar, the brother of A.D.A. Miguel Prado and Sheriff Ramon Prado. The high publicity of the crime leads to a massive manhunt for Freebo but as they can't find him, it is led to believe he skipped town.
Dexter, however, learns he is staying at his girlfriend's place, Teegan Campbell, who he killed. The police don't find a connection until Dex helps his sister Det. Debra Morgan break the case. Meanwhile, Dexter tracks Freebo to Teegan's home, chokes him unconscious and takes him to the house's garage, where he sets him vertically up on a picnic table in plastic wrap. Dexter cuts his cheek, collects a blood sample from him, and confronts him about Teegan and the other two girls that he had killed. Freebo is surprised to hear that Teegan is dead and denies any involvement, but Dexter doesn't believe him. He coldly kills him like any other target.
Dexter stabs him in the neck with the same knife that Oscar Prado had attacked Freebo with the day before, as a way of finishing the job. When Prado had attacked Dexter, he managed to turn the knife on Prado and took it with him when he fled the scene. Unknown to Dexter, Miguel Prado had also deduced Freebo's hideout location and was waiting outside, where he sat wanting to kill Freebo himself. Dexter is caught red-handed by Prado as he emerges but much to his surprise Prado thanks him for doing what he couldn't.
Freebo's unexplained disappearance leads to multiple characters becoming involved in the plot. While Miguel Prado is led to believe that Freebo was placed underneath a buried grave (which leads Miguel into using this for his discarding of bodies), George Washington King begins killing people associated with Freebo in an attempt to track him down (even though it was just used to mask his intent for murdering people).
Victims[]
- Brenda Keppinger - Strangled to death by Freebo.
- Muriel Pruitt - Strangled to death by Freebo.
- Total - 2
Personality[]
Freebo is a man who will sell anything to make a quick buck and certainly has made a living off of it when it comes to drugs. Freebo is a dealer, a popular one at that and has a few people under his employ to watch over him, as if he were a miniature drug lord (nothing compared to Carlos Guerrero). He sometimes doesn't keep up on his due however, as is the situation with George King that is constantly looking for him after his sudden disappearance.
As far as his attitude goes, he has no respect for anyone, especially women, and he occasionally gets high. He doesn't appear to show remorse for the victims that he's killed despite having no apparent animosity for them and doesn't seem to have any friends either, suggesting that he only cares about himself.
Appearance[]
Freebo appears to be someone who puts on anything he can find and had very sloppily spiked up hair. He disliked anything other than gym shorts and t-shirts.
Gallery[]
External Link[]
- Fred Bowman - Dexter Wiki
