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Poison Expert Allegedly Spikes Wife’s Smoothie?! The Case of Betty Bowman
Thu, 24 Apr 2025
On August 20th, 2023, 32-year-old Betty Bowman died in the hospital, where she suffered from heart problems, lung problems, and needing part of her colon removed. Toxicology reports showed a drug in her system that was not supposed to be there. Her husband, Connor Bowman, was charged with second and first degree murder–he’s accused of poisoning her. And not only that, he was caught changing his dating profile to say "widower" before she was even dead. GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/remembering-betty-bowman Mary Yoder: Poisoned By Her Son's Ex-Girlfriend o... — This episode is sponsored by: Nutrafol - promo code: KENDALLRAEGIFT Earnin - When you download the EarnIn app type in True Crime with Kendall Rae under PODCAST when you sign up. Check out my foundation: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/ Watch my documentaries: 530 Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUWkmOjNLk Apartment 801: https://bit.ly/2RJ9XXr True Crime with Kendall Rae podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rks84o Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jC66pr Shop my Merch! https://kendallrae.shop Check out my other podcasts: Mile Higher (True Crime) @milehigherpod YouTube: https://bit.ly/2ROzJcw Instagram: http://instagram.com/milehigherpod The Sesh (Current events, a little true crime, pop culture, and commentary) https://bit.ly/3Mtoz4X @the_seshpodcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/3a9t6Xr *Follow My Social!* @KendallRaeOnyt Instagram: http://instagram.com/kendallraeonyt Facebook: https://bit.ly/3kar4NK True Crime TikTok: https://bit.ly/3VDbc77 Personal TikTok: https://bit.ly/41hmRKg REQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://zfrmz.com/yg9cuiWjUe2QY3hSC2V0 Form for people directly related/close to the victim: https://zfrmz.com/HGu2hZso42aHxARt1i67 Join my discord to chat with other viewers about this video, it’s free! https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCN C O N T A C T: For Business Inquiries - [email protected] Send me mail: Kendall Rae 8547 E Arapahoe Rd Ste J #233 Greenwood Village, CO 80112
What happened to Betty Bowman?
She'd been having diarrhea since like 2 a.m., and she was incredibly dehydrated. And so food poisoning kind of made sense, and that's what doctors also figured it was too, and that's what they treated her for. The problem, though, is that she wasn't responding to any of the typical treatment that they would do for food poisoning. In fact, Betty was getting progressively worse.
Over the course of four days, she experienced cardiac issues, fluid in her lungs, organ failure, and even had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a portion of her colon after they discovered that some of the tissue had died. And during this time, her mom, her sister, and also over a dozen friends came to visit her, but none of them could make sense of how Betty got so sick so suddenly.
Eventually, in the hospital, she became unconscious, and... You got to remember, we're talking about an otherwise perfectly healthy 32-year-old woman who worked in health care. So to go from perfectly fine to having all of these major issues and going completely unconscious in the hospital, people couldn't wrap their mind around what was going on here. What's wrong with Betty?
And doctors couldn't even really understand what was going on. But Connor, he had an explanation. Now, HLH stands for a condition that is very, very hard to say. I'm going to do my best, but bear with me. HLH stands for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. And HLH is rare. It's a life-threatening disorder where the immune system attacks its own blood cells and organs.
And Connor was telling people that this is what Betty had. And because your average person doesn't know what HLH is, it wasn't really something that they questioned. Plus, if you were to Google it, you would see that the symptoms of HLH really mirrored what Betty was experiencing. I mean, the diarrhea, the organ failure, everything.
It's also super hard to diagnose, which is why many people believe that he suggested it in the first place. But here's the thing, though. Betty did not have HLH. HLH. And we know that because Connor asked doctors to run a test for it, and it came back inconclusive.
Don't forget, Connor was a med student and a resident at that hospital, so he wasn't some average Joe telling these doctors what to do. He had some
some credibility here i mean not a lot but some but despite the results coming back as inconclusive he still confidently told people that that's what betty had and ultimately it's what he told people that she died from because on august 20th four days after being admitted betty passed away from organ failure but her exact cause of death had yet to be determined
Now, because the circumstances of her death were so sudden, the hospital sent her body to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy. Here's where things get super, super weird, though, okay? Connor not only attempted to cancel the autopsy, but he practically begged them to cremate her immediately. Big red flag, right?
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