A medical examiner determined Betty Bowman died after being poisoned by a drug that a tipster told police her husband had researched.

A grand jury in Minnesota has indicted a doctor accused of fatally poisoning his wife, and upgraded charges against him to first-degree murder, authorities said.

Dr. Connor Bowman, 30, was arrested in October and charged with second-degree murder linked to the death of his wife, Betty Bowman. She was 32 years old when she died Aug. 20, only four days after she was admitted to a hospital.

Investigators collected evidence that indicated Connor Bowman, who once worked for poison control, “may have given Betty Bowman a drug for an ailment she did not have,” Rochester police had said.

  • @rockSlayer
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    227 months ago

    He was my mom’s doctor! It shocked my entire family to hear the story

  • magnetosphere
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    127 months ago

    I don’t understand how people think they can get away with murders involving poison. There’s just too much evidence left behind. Even if her body had been cremated, there would still be the toxicology reports from the hospital.

  • @aodhsishaj
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    17 months ago

    The wife was on murder charges?

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      this is roughly has been how headlines have been written since 1890. it’s unlikely to change soon

    • magnetosphere
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      27 months ago

      That’s what I thought at first, too. It’s a confusingly written headline. A minimally changed but better one would be “Minnesota doctor (accused of fatally poisoning wife) indicted on murder charges”

    • @QuarterSwede
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      07 months ago

      That would only make sense if it was written: Minnesota doctor accused of fatal poisoning wife indicted on murder charges.

      Fatally means it has to mean “Minnesota doctor, accused of fatally poisoning wife, indicted on murder charges.”

  • @QuarterSwede
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    7 months ago

    Cue crime of passion defense? No, it was obviously premeditated. What is he going to go for?