A poison doctor and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has been charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital with an upset stomach.
Identified as Connor Bowman, 30, he tried to stop the autopsy of his wife, Betty Bowman, 32, claiming that she should be cremated immediately and claiming that she suffered from a rare disease, which medical tests did not confirm.
Likewise, the medical examiner’s office suspended the cremation order, citing suspicious circumstances, the complaint says, and the autopsy revealed that the woman lost her life due to the toxic effects of colchicine, a medication used to treat gout. a complex form of arthritis.
Medical records indicated that he was not diagnosed with gout and that he had not been prescribed the medication, the complaint states, adding that Connor Bowman had been researching the medication before his wife’s death.
About six days before the victim was hospitalized, the man had converted his wife’s weight to kilograms and multiplied it by 0.8, considering 0.8 mg/kg to be the lethal dose of colchicine, the document says.
Friends of Betty told detectives that she was “a healthy person,” that her marriage was in danger due to infidelity and other problems, and that divorce was close, according to CBS Minnesota.
In that sense, they stated that the couple had separate bank accounts for Connor’s debts, which the man told a friend he was going to collect $500,000 in life insurance, the court report says.
Authorities found a receipt for a $450,000 bank deposit inside his home.
The subject was charged with second-degree murder and was arrested on Friday.
Suspicious death
Following the alert, the Southeastern Minnesota Medical Examiner’s Office alerted authorities about Betty’s “suspicious death” on August 21, the day after her death.
She was admitted to a Rochester hospital on Aug. 16 with “severe gastrointestinal discomfort and dehydration, where her condition rapidly deteriorated,” according to the complaint.
Initially their symptoms were similar to those of food poisoning and they were treated as such, but the victim continued to worsen. He experienced heart problems, fluid in his lungs and organ failure.
While his wife was hospitalized, Connor suggested she had hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, or HLH, but tests were inconclusive for HLH. However, the man insisted that he died from that disease.
He told the coroners that Betty’s death was natural and that she “did not want to be a corpse,” so the autopsy should be canceled. He also asked an investigator from the coroner’s office if the toxicology analysis would be more complete than the hospital’s analysis.
A woman at the University of Kansas told detectives that Connor had been researching colchicine, although neither he nor any other employees had received a call about the drug.
Internet browsing history
Officials found that Connor had searched for “internet browsing history: can it be used in court?”, and “delete Amazon data police” on August 5. He did the math on the lethal dose of colchicine on August 10.
Similarly, he searched for information about purchasing liquid colchicine five days before his wife became ill and visited a page that “helps with online shopping,” which according to the researchers “coincided with online purchasing activity.” colchicine.”
Therefore, the Minnesota Department of Health found colchicine in Betty Bowman’s blood and urine samples that were taken at the hospital, determining that the cause of death was the toxic effects of colchicine, according to the complaint.
Connor Bowman is scheduled to appear in court on November 1.
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