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Betty Bowman Poisoning Case: Connor Bowman Murder Charge | True Crime · Crime Uncovered

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  Speaker 1: Imagine you're a pharmacist. You've spent your entire adult life
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  Speaker 1: learning exactly how drugs interact with the human body, which
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  Speaker 1: molecules heal, which ones destroy, and at what dose the
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  Speaker 1: difference between medicine and poison disappears. You know the names.
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  Speaker 1: the mechanisms, the thresholds. You know how to save lives,
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  Speaker 1: and you're surrounded every day by people who do the same.
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  Speaker 1: Now imagine you're lying in a hospital bed connected to monitors.
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  Speaker 1: Your body is shutting down in ways that no specialist
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  Speaker 1: on the floor can adequately explain. And the person sitting
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  Speaker 1: closest to you, the one with the most access, the
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  Speaker 1: one arguing with hospital staff, the one who keeps suggesting
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  Speaker 1: a diagnosis, and who is pushing to have you cremated
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  Speaker 1: before anyone asks too many questions, is your husband. A doctor. Who,
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  Speaker 1: before he went to medical school, worked at a poison
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  Speaker 1: control center. Betty Bowman did not die from a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say she died from a plan, one carried out
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  Speaker 1: by someone who understood, down to the milligram, exactly what
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  Speaker 1: her body could not survive. This is her story. From
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  Speaker 1: Wichita to Rochester. From a wedding in Missouri to a
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  Speaker 1: hospital room in Minnesota, from a life full of travel, laughter,
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  Speaker 1: coffee shops, and a corgi named Crumpet, to an autopsy
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  Speaker 1: that changed everything. And it's also the story of a
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  Speaker 1: digital trail that investigators say a poison specialist left behind
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  Speaker 1: and could not fully erase. A quick note before we begin.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Bowman has pleaded not guilty. Everything you're about to
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  Speaker 1: hear about him is an allegation from the prosecutions. He
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  Speaker 1: has not been convicted of anything. Betty Jo Sponsel was
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  Speaker 1: born on December 13, 1990, in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Nancy and David Sponsel. From an early age, she
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  Speaker 1: was the kind of person people remembered, not because she
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  Speaker 1: was loud or showy, because she paid attention. She remembered
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  Speaker 1: your favorite color, your favorite animal, the small thing you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned once, weeks ago, in passing, that you'd already forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: and she'd bring it up later in a way that
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  Speaker 1: made you feel like the most important person in the room.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't a technique. It was just who she was.
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  Speaker 1: She graduated from Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita in
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  Speaker 1: 2009 and went on to earn her Doctor of Pharmacy
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  Speaker 1: from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in 2017.
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  Speaker 1: In 2018, she completed a pharmacy residency at Stormont Vale
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  Speaker 1: Hospital in Topeka. These are not casual achievements. A PharmD
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  Speaker 1: is a demanding, rigorous program. A hospital residency pushes pharmacists
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  Speaker 1: from theory into high-stakes, real-world practice. Complex patients, critical medications,
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  Speaker 1: decisions that cannot be undone. Betty excelled. She was becoming
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  Speaker 1: exactly the kind of pharmacist who makes hospitals safer. Friends
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  Speaker 1: described her in vivid, specific terms. Sharp. Witty. Adventurous. emotionally
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  Speaker 1: generous in a way that felt effortless. A high school
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  Speaker 1: friend called her the best friend anyone could ask for. Smart, fun, thoughtful,
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  Speaker 1: with a smile and a sense of humor that filled
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  Speaker 1: every room she walked into. Another person, writing after her death,
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  Speaker 1: described how Betty had once customized a chat with lime
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  Speaker 1: green colors and dolphins because she remembered those were that
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  Speaker 1: person's favorites. A small thing, an irreplaceable thing. She traveled widely, Yosemite, Hawaii, Iceland, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: New York, the Grand Canyon, the Caribbean, and she brought
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  Speaker 1: that sense of adventure into her everyday life in Rochester.
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  Speaker 1: She loved local coffee shops, good cheese, long dinners. She
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  Speaker 1: was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights, and her circle
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  Speaker 1: reflected the warm, inclusive community she built wherever she landed—
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  Speaker 1: She encouraged everyone around her to be their truest selves.
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  Speaker 1: And she had Crumpet, her Corgi, her Joy, spoiled with
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  Speaker 1: special treats and trips to local parks. When Betty joined
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  Speaker 1: Mayo Clinic, a pharmacist trained her on arrival and later
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  Speaker 1: said Mayo had hit a home run. She was sharp, reliable, hardworking, trusted.
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  Speaker 1: She eventually moved into work as an operating room pharmacist,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most precision-demanding roles in hospital pharmacy. She
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  Speaker 1: still came back to cover shifts with her original team.
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  Speaker 1: By every account, she was excellent at her job and
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  Speaker 1: beloved by the people who worked alongside her. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: meet the man she married. Connor Fitzgerald Bowman was born
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  Speaker 1: on March 21st, 1993. Like Betty, he came through the
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  Speaker 1: University of Kansas. He graduated from its medical school in 2021.
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  Speaker 1: But before he became Dr. Bowman, He worked as a
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  Speaker 1: poison specialist at the University of Kansas, answering calls about
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  Speaker 1: toxic exposure on institutional devices that required VPN authentication. He
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  Speaker 1: had access to specialized toxicology databases and the kind of
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  Speaker 1: hands-on reference knowledge that only comes from answering those calls.
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  Speaker 1: Which substances cause which effects? In which time frames? He
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  Speaker 1: knew the vocabulary of poison. He knew that medicine and
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  Speaker 1: toxicology speak the same language. and that only intent separates them.
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  Speaker 1: After medical school, Connor was accepted into the internal medicine
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  Speaker 1: residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He and Betty
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  Speaker 1: married on May 30, 2021, in Independence, Missouri, and moved
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  Speaker 1: to Rochester together. Betty to work as a hospital pharmacist,
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  Speaker 1: Connor to complete his residency. On paper, a young medical
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  Speaker 1: couple building something remarkable. From the outside... the Bowman marriage
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  Speaker 1: looked like what it was supposed to be. But according
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  Speaker 1: to investigators, 2023 told a different story. People interviewed by
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  Speaker 1: police and by the medical examiner's office described a marriage
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  Speaker 1: under serious strain. Allegations of infidelity, discussions of divorce, separate
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts because Connor had significant debt and Betty was
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  Speaker 1: careful with her finances. According to the criminal complaint, at
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  Speaker 1: least one person told investigators... that Connor expected to receive $ 500, 000
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  Speaker 1: in life insurance in the event of Betty's death. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: also reported finding a large bank deposit receipt during a
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  Speaker 1: search of the Bowman residence. None of this was visible
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  Speaker 1: to the outside world. Betty was still going to work,
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  Speaker 1: still making friends feel seen and valued, still posting about Crumpet.
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  Speaker 1: But behind closed doors, prosecutors allege, something had already begun
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  Speaker 1: to take shape. In the summer of 2023, Connor was
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  Speaker 1: still logging into his University of Kansas devices, the same
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  Speaker 1: systems connected to his poison control work, protected by institutional
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  Speaker 1: VPN authentication. University of Kansas personnel later told investigators that
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  Speaker 1: Connor had been running searches on those devices that had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with any poison control calls he'd received.
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  Speaker 1: No other employee had received calls about the substance he
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  Speaker 1: was researching. He was researching colchicine. Colchicine is a medication
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  Speaker 1: primarily used to treat gout. At therapeutic doses, it reduces inflammation.
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  Speaker 1: At toxic doses, it is catastrophic. It disrupts the way
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  Speaker 1: cells divide throughout the body. It damages the gastrointestinal tract,
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  Speaker 1: collapses bone marrow function, weakens the heart, and can trigger
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  Speaker 1: multi-organ failure. Its early symptoms, severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea,
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  Speaker 1: are almost indistinguishable from food poisoning. And there is no antidote.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say that one more time because it
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  Speaker 1: matters for everything that comes next. Early on, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like a stomach bug. And once it's in the body,
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  Speaker 1: there is no antidote. By August 5, 2023, the searches
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  Speaker 1: had become more specific. Investigators say Connor searched questions about
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  Speaker 1: whether Internet browsing history can be used in court, whether
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  Speaker 1: police track package deliveries, and how to delete Amazon data.
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  Speaker 1: He also searched about sodium nitrate. including the difference between
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  Speaker 1: food-grade and industrial-grade versions. Then came August 10th. According to
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  Speaker 1: the criminal complaint, Connor converted Betty's body weight from pounds
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  Speaker 1: to kilograms and used that figure to calculate a lethal
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  Speaker 1: dose of colchicine. He then searched for liquid colchicine on GoodRx.
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  Speaker 1: Search warrant reporting also revealed that he used his Mayo
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  Speaker 1: Clinic email address to purchase colchicine through TruPill, an online
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy platform. According to investigators, he subsequently requested the deletion
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  Speaker 1: of his account and purchase history. On that same day,
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors say Connor was calculating a lethal dose on a
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  Speaker 1: university device, and something happened at the Bowman home. A
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  Speaker 1: friend of Betty's later told police that Connor made Betty
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  Speaker 1: a smoothie. Betty tasted it. She said it was bitter
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  Speaker 1: and salty in a way that didn't seem right. and
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  Speaker 1: she joked to her friend that maybe he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to poison her. She didn't finish it. The friend recalled
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  Speaker 1: thinking the smoothie was strange, because Connor never made anything
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  Speaker 1: for anyone. That kind of gesture was out of character
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  Speaker 1: for him. Betty stayed well that day. Investigators would later
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  Speaker 1: explore whether August 10th represented a first attempt, one that
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  Speaker 1: failed because Betty didn't drink the smoothie. That allegation has
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  Speaker 1: not been proven at trial. but the timing sits heavily
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  Speaker 1: in the record. A lethal dose calculation, a bitter drink,
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  Speaker 1: a joke that turned out not to be a joke.
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  Speaker 1: And five days later, Betty was in the hospital. On
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  Speaker 1: August 14th, Betty messaged a man identified in court documents
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  Speaker 1: only by his initials. She had a few days off
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to spend time with him. They made plans.
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  Speaker 1: On August 15th, they saw each other. That night, Betty
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  Speaker 1: texted that she was home, drinking with Connor. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: like an ordinary evening. There was no sign of what
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  Speaker 1: was already in her body or what was coming. The
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  Speaker 1: next morning, August 16th, Betty messaged him again. She was
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  Speaker 1: very sick. She couldn't sleep. She believed something she'd consumed.
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  Speaker 1: something in a drink or a smoothie, had caused it.
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  Speaker 1: That message would become one of the most significant pieces
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  Speaker 1: of evidence in the entire case. It placed the onset
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  Speaker 1: of her illness inside the Bowman home on the night
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  Speaker 1: of August 15th, after drinks with Connor. Blood drawn from
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  Speaker 1: Betty on admission to the hospital that same day would
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  Speaker 1: later test positive for colchicine. Betty was admitted to a
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  Speaker 1: hospital in Rochester on August 16th, 2023, with severe gastrointestinal
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  Speaker 1: distress and dehydration. At first, her symptoms looked like food poisoning,
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  Speaker 1: so the standard approach followed— fluids, monitoring, rest. She didn't improve.
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  Speaker 1: She deteriorated rapidly, in ways that went far beyond anything ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Her heart began to show serious problems. Fluid built up
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  Speaker 1: in her lungs. Her organs started to fail. Surgeons discovered
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  Speaker 1: necrotic tissue in part of her colon, tissue that had
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  Speaker 1: simply died and removed a portion of it. Her body
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  Speaker 1: was being destroyed from within. And through all of it,
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  Speaker 1: Connor was present. He was her husband, he was a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and he kept offering explanations to the medical team. His
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  Speaker 1: suggestion was something called hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, or HLH, a rare
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  Speaker 1: and serious immune disorder. in which the body's own immune
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  Speaker 1: system turns on its tissues. An obscure diagnosis, the kind
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  Speaker 1: that fits symptoms resisting easier explanations. Tests were run. Results
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  Speaker 1: were inconclusive. Betty was never diagnosed with HLH. But Connor
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  Speaker 1: kept steering the medical narrative in that direction. Betty Jo
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  Speaker 1: Bowman died on August 20, 2023, at St. Mary's Hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Rochester, Minnesota. She was 32 years old. four days
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  Speaker 1: from hospitalization to death. Her obituary described the cause as
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  Speaker 1: a sudden-onset autoimmune and infectious illness. It named HLH. It
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  Speaker 1: also encouraged guests at her celebration of life to wear rainbow, pride,
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  Speaker 1: or corgi-themed attire, because that was the kind of woman
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  Speaker 1: Betty was, even in how she was remembered. Her family
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  Speaker 1: called her a beloved friend, sibling, corgi mom, pharmacist, and
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  Speaker 1: cherished member of their lives. To the world, it was
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  Speaker 1: a tragedy. To the medical examiner's office, it was a question.
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  Speaker 1: After Betty's death, a cremation order was placed. The Southeast
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Medical Examiner's Office halted it. According to the criminal complaint,
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  Speaker 1: Connor argued that Betty's death was natural. He said she
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  Speaker 1: should be cremated immediately, and he tried to cancel the autopsy,
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  Speaker 1: claiming Betty hadn't wanted to be a cadaver. He also
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  Speaker 1: asked whether the toxicology testing would be more thorough than
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  Speaker 1: the hospital's own testing, and he requested a list of
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  Speaker 1: which specific substances would be screened. Forensic investigators would later
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  Speaker 1: describe those questions as significant. That is not how grieving
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  Speaker 1: husbands typically engage with medical examiners. That is how someone
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  Speaker 1: manages risk. The cremation didn't happen. The autopsy did. Toxicology
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  Speaker 1: found colchicine in Betty's blood and in her urine. Her
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  Speaker 1: medical records confirmed no gout diagnosis, no colchicine prescription, no
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  Speaker 1: hospital administration of the drug. The colchicine in her body
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  Speaker 1: came from outside the hospital. The medical examiner determined the
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  Speaker 1: cause of death, toxic effects of colchicine, the manner of death, homicide.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Bowman was arrested on October 20, 2023. What investigators
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  Speaker 1: assembled was not the evidence of an impulsive crime. It was,
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  Speaker 1: they say, a trail of deliberate planning that Connor had tried,
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  Speaker 1: and failed, to fully erase. The University of Kansas search history.
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  Speaker 1: The lethal dose calculation. The good Rx searches. The true
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  Speaker 1: pill purchase made with his Mayo Clinic email. The account
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  Speaker 1: deletion request that followed. The queries about whether police track
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  Speaker 1: packages and whether browsing history can be used in court,
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  Speaker 1: all of it still there. Connor had also accessed Betty's
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  Speaker 1: electronic health record during her hospitalization and kept accessing it
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  Speaker 1: after her death. He created a documentation encounter in her record.
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  Speaker 1: No clinical content, no notes. But the act identified him
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  Speaker 1: as a member of her care team, allowing him to
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  Speaker 1: re-enter the record without re-entering credentials. He was allegedly monitoring
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  Speaker 1: what the hospital knew. Then came the Bumble allegations. Search
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  Speaker 1: warrants unsealed in May 2024 revealed that investigators say Connor
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  Speaker 1: searched is widow gender neutral two days before Betty died.
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  Speaker 1: After her death, he allegedly appeared on the dating app
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  Speaker 1: identifying himself as a widower. Multiple women who matched with
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  Speaker 1: him told investigators he gave them different stories about how
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  Speaker 1: Betty died. Listeria to one. a morphine overdose to another.
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  Speaker 1: One woman said he mentioned a large life insurance payout
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  Speaker 1: within days of their first conversation, saying he'd used it
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  Speaker 1: to pay off student loan debt. In January 2024, an
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  Speaker 1: Olmstead County grand jury indicted Connor Bowman on first-degree premeditated
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  Speaker 1: murder and second-degree murder. In Minnesota, a conviction on the
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  Speaker 1: first charge carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison
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  Speaker 1: without the possibility of release. Connor has pleaded not guilty
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  Speaker 1: to both charges. The pretrial stage has been extensive. In
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  Speaker 1: April 2025, a judge ruled that some evidence from home
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  Speaker 1: electronic devices was suppressed as unconstitutionally obtained. In October 2025,
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  Speaker 1: multiple other suppression motions were denied, covering Mayo Clinic records,
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  Speaker 1: University of Kansas materials, Bumble and social media accounts, pharmacy records,
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  Speaker 1: and financial data. In March 2026, the judge ruled that
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  Speaker 1: evidence from Conner's Mayo Clinic laptop, including the true pill
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  Speaker 1: purchase records, could be used at trial. And in June 2026,
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  Speaker 1: the same judge refused to dismiss the indictment after the
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  Speaker 1: defense argued grand jury misconduct. As of this recording, no
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  Speaker 1: trial date has been set. So let's talk about why
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  Speaker 1: this case is so unsettling from a forensic point of view.
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  Speaker 1: Colchicine is a naturally occurring compound derived from the autumn
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  Speaker 1: crocus plant. At therapeutic doses, it works by interfering with
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  Speaker 1: a protein that cells need in order to divide, and
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  Speaker 1: by reducing the movement of inflammatory white blood cells into
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  Speaker 1: damaged tissue. Useful for gout. Useful for certain cardiac conditions.
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  Speaker 1: At toxic doses, that same mechanism turns catastrophic. When cells
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  Speaker 1: throughout the body can't divide normally... tissues begin breaking down
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  Speaker 1: in sequence. The digestive tract is hit first. Nausea, vomiting,
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  Speaker 1: severe diarrhea, mimicking food poisoning almost exactly. Then, over the
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  Speaker 1: following days, bone marrow fails. Blood cell production collapses. The
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  Speaker 1: heart muscle weakens. Organs begin shutting down. Death arrives as
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  Speaker 1: multi-organ failure, the kind that, without toxicology, can look like
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  Speaker 1: the result of a dozen different diagnoses. There is no antidote.
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  Speaker 1: Treatment is purely supportive. And because the progression from ingestion
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  Speaker 1: to collapse takes days rather than hours, the window for
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  Speaker 1: identifying the cause is dangerously narrow, especially when the attending
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  Speaker 1: physician on the case is is already offering an alternative explanation.
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  Speaker 1: The calculation prosecutors describe was not a rough guess. It
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  Speaker 1: was specific toxicological knowledge applied to a person of Betty's size,
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  Speaker 1: and the outcome would be highly probable without immediate targeted intervention,
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  Speaker 1: which is nearly impossible to deliver when no one in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital has been told to look for colchicine. And
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  Speaker 1: what about the mind behind it, if the prosecution's theory
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  Speaker 1: is correct? Poisoning is the most premeditated of all murder methods.
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  Speaker 1: It requires research, acquisition, patience, and the sustained ability to
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  Speaker 1: remain calm and present near the person you are killing
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  Speaker 1: over days, even weeks. There's no impulse, no heat of
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  Speaker 1: the moment, only planning and then waiting. Forensic researchers describe
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  Speaker 1: this as controlled aggression, violence channeled entirely into covert action,
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  Speaker 1: while a composed, even caring exterior is maintained. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: if the prosecution is right, the alleged perpetrator wasn't lurking
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  Speaker 1: at a distance. He was in the hospital room, suggesting diagnoses,
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  Speaker 1: consulting with the care team, positioning himself as a concerned,
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  Speaker 1: knowledgeable husband, while the substance he allegedly administered was already
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  Speaker 1: working inside her. That level of sustained performance under pressure
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen by accident. It reflects a deliberate decision to
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  Speaker 1: manage appearances at the moment they matter most. The behavior
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  Speaker 1: around the autopsy fits the same pattern. Pushing for immediate cremation.
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  Speaker 1: Questioning the scope of toxicology. Asking which substances would be screened.
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  Speaker 1: Forensic psychologists call this impression management under pressure. The attempt
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  Speaker 1: to shape how a situation is perceived when the underlying
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  Speaker 1: reality is beginning to surface. not grief processing, risk assessment.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to be clear again, Connor Bowman has
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  Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty. These are the prosecution's allegations, and a
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  Speaker 1: jury has not yet weighed them. The psychological pattern they describe, premeditation,
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  Speaker 1: impression management, emotional detachment, is one forensic researchers recognize, whether
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  Speaker 1: it describes this man as a question for a courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: Betty Jo Sponsel Bowman was 32 years old. A pharmacist.
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  Speaker 1: A Mayo Clinic professional. A Wichita girl who remembered your
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  Speaker 1: favorite color. A traveler. A corgi mom. A friend who
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  Speaker 1: showed up. The kind of person who made you feel
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  Speaker 1: seen just by being in the same room. The first
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  Speaker 1: mystery was why she died. The second was why her
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  Speaker 1: husband seemed so ready to explain it. The cremation never happened.
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  Speaker 1: The autopsy broke the story open. And a digital trail
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  Speaker 1: of searches, purchases, and deletions may be what a jury
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  Speaker 1: ultimately decides. If this case stayed with you, subscribe and
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