Connor Bowman has now officially been charged with the first degree premeditated murder of his wife, per court docs obtained by KARE 11 — and the latest details are as dramatic as they are disturbing.
The former Mayo Clinic doctor was initially arrested last October for the killing of his wife. Betty Jo Bowman was checked into the hospital last August with stomach distress and died just four days later.
While she was there, her doctor husband suggested she was suffering from hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, or HLH. Tests came back inconclusive, but Connor told people that’s how she died anyway.
However, police were given a tip that Connor might have been involved. One friend of Betty Jo’s recalled having tried a smoothie Connor had made for her — and joking at the time her husband “must be trying to poison her.” Betty said she didn’t think so but also refused to drink the rest of the smoothie. Related: Dentist’s Wife Almost Solved Her Own Poisoning Murder And suspicion only heated up when he tried to stop her autopsy, demanding she be cremated right away.