When Mayo Clinic pharmacist Betty Bowman suddenly became ill, it looked like a case of food poisoning. The 32-year-old was admitted to Mayo Clinic’s St. Marys hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, on Aug. 16 with “severe gastrointestinal distress and dehydration,” and she’d mentioned to a friend that she started feeling sick after drinking a smoothie.
But in spite of the care at the prestigious institution, her condition rapidly deteriorated, affecting her heart, lungs and vital organs. She died Aug. 20, and her obituary noted a sudden onset of an autoimmune disease.
Two months later, however, investigators said they’d determined that she actually had been poisoned, and not by a bad smoothie. Her 30-year-old husband, Dr. Connor Bowman, was charged with second-degree murder on Oct. 23 after investigators said he gave her a lethal dose of an obscure drug, and then allegedly attempted to divert suspicion by modifying her medical records, trying to halt her autopsy, and pushing for an immediate cremation of her remains. Connor was then a resident at Mayo Clinic but also worked remotely for The University of Kansas Health System. His role? Advising callers to a poison control center.
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