A former Mayo Clinic doctor who was charged with poisoning his wife after their open marriage collapsed may have been identifying himself as a widow on the dating app Bumble before his death, a new report reveals. This was revealed in a newly released warrant.
On August 20, in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Connor Bowman died after his wife, 32-year-old pharmacist Betty Bowman, became seriously ill after being poisoned with a gout drug and died of organ failure. (31 years old) was charged with murder. .
New search warrants released and obtained on Tuesday curl tvBowman revealed that he was talking to several women on dating apps around the time of his wife’s alleged murder.
According to the warrant, investigators are asking Bumble to turn over details of its conversations with Bowman and exactly when he changed his marital status on his profile.
Cellphone search records show Bowman allegedly searched for the gender-neutral/masculine word “widow” on August 18, just two days before Betty died, documents show. There is.
At least one “female witness” who was matched with him on the app later told police that his profile identified him as a widow, the documents said.
However, it wasn’t immediately clear when his dating profile status changed.
Bowman, a toxicology expert, also allegedly gave the women various stories about what happened to his wife in the weeks after her death, according to the warrant.
A woman who claims she matched with him on Sept. 5 told investigators that he asked her if she thought it was okay to have an affair with someone else in the wake of his wife’s death.
“Connor said, and it’s an obvious question, that he’s okay with being with someone new, that he knows what he wants in life, and that Betty wants him to move on in order to be happy. “I would have liked that,” the warrant states.
The man allegedly told the woman that his wife had died of listeria poisoning earlier in the summer, documents said.
In another match, he claimed that Betty was “led to believe that she had died about a year ago from a morphine overdose while receiving comfort treatment.”
Meanwhile, a woman who told investigators that she met with Bowman on Aug. 29, nine days after Betty’s death, brought out a large amount of life insurance proceeds that Bowman had received and used them to cover her own insurance proceeds. He said he thought it was strange that he was using it for payment. student loan debt.
Bowman was arrested last October and later charged with first- and second-degree murder in his wife’s death.
Betty, a pharmacist who also worked at the world-famous Mayo Clinic, was suffering from gastroenteritis, a condition similar to food poisoning, and dehydration when she was hospitalized.
Betty’s condition rapidly deteriorated and she developed heart problems, fluid built up in her lungs, and after part of her colon was removed, she died of organ failure.
A subsequent toxicology report revealed that colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, was present in her system the day after she was admitted.
After her death, Bowman is said to have persuaded the coroner’s office not to perform an autopsy and insisted that his wife be cremated immediately, claiming her death was “natural.”
He wrote in Betty’s obituary that she had hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s organs.
One of Betty’s friends later told police that her marriage was falling apart due to infidelity and a number of other problems. Previously reported post breaking news.
Friends claimed that although the couple had an open relationship, Bowman developed an emotional bond with another woman and threatened his wife with divorce because of it.
Bowman is being held in the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center on $2 million bail and is scheduled to appear in court on June 11.
