ROCHESTER, Minn. — Newly-released warrants from the Rochester Police Division exhibits how they constructed the case towards former Mayo Clinic resident, Connor Bowman, for the dying of his spouse, Betty Bowman.
Associates advised police that Connor and Betty Bowman had been in an open relationship, however Connor had developed an emotional reference to one other lady, and had been heading in the direction of divorce.
That is when investigators say he began his analysis. On Connor Bowman’s College of Kansas laptop computer, the place he labored as a poison specialist, he looked for “poisons” and “deadly doses particularly for people weighing roughly 120 kilos.”
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In August, investigators say he narrowed in on a drug known as Colchicine, used to deal with gout, and purchased some on-line.
At one level, Connor Bowman made his spouse a “suspicious smoothie,” and a buddy even “joked with Betty … that Connor may need been attempting to poison” her.
The night time Betty Bowman went to the hospital, Connor Bowman “shocked her with an alcoholic drink.”
Over objections from Connor Bowman, an post-mortem discovered Colchicine in Betty Bowman’s system, regardless of no gout analysis.
What put the case excessive for detectives: A $450,000 life insurance coverage cost — rapidly put in Connor Bowman’s ban account.
Although it’s not practically sufficient to cowl his $5 million bond, as he stays locked up on homicide costs on the Olmsted County Jail.
