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Friends and family from Alexandria this week remembered fondly Barbara J. "Bobbie" Bosworth, the gentle, animal-loving woman abducted and killed last week.
On Saturday afternoon, Bosworth was kidnapped in the parking lot at Springfield Mall and driven 18 miles south in her red saturn to a convenience store in Prince William County, where her kidnappers attempted to steal her money using her ATM card.
After a high-speed chase by police, the car in which she was riding drove off the road and she was killed instantly. Her captors, 19-year-olds Lutchman L. Chandler and Keith A. Baskerville of Woodbridge, survived the crash, with serious, life-threatening injuries.
The Bosworths lived in a townhouse off Duke Street near Cameron Run, close to the Vola Lawson Animal Shelter. The son of an Arlington County fire captain, she was a 1967 graduate of Wakefield High School.
In his only interview, her late husband, Tom Bosworth, 53, recalled her to The Washington Post as his "perfect match."
"While I'm very calm and factual and practical," he told the Post, "she's more emotional and intuitive and spiritual. Where I ended up in life, she's the one who pulled me along."
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