Posted on 10/25/2023 7:33:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress.
Authorities say Connor Bowman, 30, tried to stop the autopsy on his wife, Betty Bowman — arguing she should be cremated immediately and claiming she had a rare illness, which hospital tests did not confirm. The medical examiner's office halted the order for cremation, citing suspicious circumstances, according to a criminal complaint, and an autopsy showed Betty Bowman died from toxic effects of colchicine, a medicine used to treat gout.
Medical records indicate she was not diagnosed with gout and had not been prescribed the medicine, the complaint states, adding that Connor Bowman had been researching the drug prior to his wife's death. Six days before she was hospitalized, he had also converted his wife's weight to kilograms and multiplied that by 0.8 — with 0.8 mg/kg considered to be the lethal dosage rate for colchicine, according to the complaint.
Connor Bowman was charged Monday with second-degree murder. He was arrested Friday and was still in custody as of Tuesday. His attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Mayo Clinic spokesperson Amanda Dyslin released a statement Tuesday that did not identify Bowman by name, but indicated he was a resident at the hospital.
“We are aware of the recent arrest of a former Mayo Clinic resident on charges unrelated to his Mayo Clinic responsibilities. The resident’s training at Mayo Clinic ended earlier this month," the statement said. Dyslin did not say why Connor Bowman’s training at Mayo Clinic ended.
Betty Bowman was also a pharmacist at Mayo Clinic.
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Stupid moron used Google to do the calculations and thought himself smart?!
“the complaint states, adding that Connor Bowman had been researching the drug prior to his wife’s death. Six days before she was hospitalized, he had also converted his wife’s weight to kilograms and multiplied that by 0.8 — with 0.8 mg/kg considered to be the lethal dosage rate for colchicine, according to the complaint.”
Second-degree murder is typically murder with malicious intent but not premeditated.
Ummm. Given all the research he had supposedly done - wouldn't it be 1st degree? *scratches head*
There’s still time for an upgrade!
Seriously. How does ANYONE think they can get away with stuff like this? I’m sure there’s ‘another woman’ at the crux of this.
Seemingly normal people can be at their core evil and bizarre. Always beware and be alert.
RIP
https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/will-former-mayo-doctor-face-first-degree-murder-charges
First thought after seeing his front and side view.....
What was his name BEFORE?
Detective: “All right, give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo poison specialist.”
Pharmacology is toxicology.
This lady is better off …. never mind.
Or a life insurance policy.
Traditionally its the wife that poisons the husband. But most don’t cook anymore, so...
Secondly, this is a joke its charged as 2nd degree. Its clearly 1st degree, intentional. Ridiculous insultive.
Now that's entirely plausible!
Yeah, I’m sure the Google search “How much poison will it take to murder my wife?” may have set off a few alarms...
The idiot failed to use a poison that wouldn’t be detected.
Apparently, the ancient poison experts were smarter.
Locusta of Gaul worked for Nero to bump off emperor Claudius and rival Britannicus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locusta
Somehow I think the poison curriculum that this idiot took was highly inadequate. A routine veterinary class on toxicology is far more thorough than what this physician exhibited. I know of a couple of veterinarians that killed someone with a poison and were only caught because they confessed.
I wasn't curriculum that this murder used but Colchicine.
Overdosage-related Mortality Cumulative IV doses >4 mg (e.g., 7 mg administered acutely) have resulted in irreversible multiple organ failure and death. Oral ingestion of as little as 7 mg has resulted in death, although larger oral doses have been survived. - https://www.drugs.com/monograph/colchicine.html
Colchicine is a medication used to treat gout[2][3] and Behçet's disease.[4] In gout, it is less preferred to NSAIDs or steroids.[2] Other uses for colchicine include the management of pericarditis and familial Mediterranean fever.[2][5] Colchicine is taken by mouth.[2]
Colchicine has a narrow therapeutic index, so overdosing is a significant risk. Common side effects of colchicine include gastrointestinal upset, particularly at high doses.[6] Severe side effects may include pancytopenia (low blood cell counts) and rhabdomyolysis, and the medication can be deadly in overdose.[2] Whether colchicine is safe for use during pregnancy is unclear, but its use during breastfeeding appears to be safe.[2][7] Colchicine works by decreasing inflammation via multiple mechanisms.[8]
Colchicine, in the form of the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale), has been used as early as 1500 BC to treat joint swelling.[9] It was approved for medical use in the United States in 1961.[1] It is available as a generic medication.[7] In 2020, it was the 241st most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 1 million prescriptions.[10][11]
Colchicine is widely used in plant breeding for inducing polyploidy, where the number of chromosomes in plant cells are doubled. This frequently results in larger, hardier, faster-growing, and in general more desirable plants than the normally diploid parents.[12]
An unintended consequence of the 2006 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety program called the Unapproved Drugs Initiative—through which the FDA sought more rigorous testing of efficacy and safety of colchicine and other unapproved drugs[47]—was a price increase of 2000 percent [48] for "a gout remedy so old that the ancient Greeks knew about its effects".[48] Under Unapproved Drugs Initiative small companies such as URL Pharma, a Philadelphia drugmaker, were rewarded with licenses for testing of medicines like colchicine. In 2009, the FDA reviewed a New Drug Application for colchicine submitted by URL Pharma. URL Pharma did the testing, gained FDA formal approval, and was granted rights over colchicine. With this monopoly pricing power, the price of colchicine increased. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicine
Ever use colchicine on a plant? Amazing results.
No, never used it. Would it be considered to be organic? Colchicine is one of the oldest remedies still in use today. It is derived from the bulb-like corms of the Colchicum autumnale plant, also known as autumn crocus. Its history as an herbal remedy for joint pain goes back at least to the 1500 BCE Egyptian manuscript, the Ebers Papyrus (Figure 1). The active ingredient, colchicine (Figure 2), was isolated in the early 1800’s and remains in use today as a purified natural product.1 In view of the long history of colchicine’s use in medicine, it is perhaps surprising that it was not until 2009 that colchicine was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration.2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5812812/
No, I do not find that surprising.
As reported in the USA Today, EPA reached out to state agencies in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere in recent months to make clear that federal guidelines prohibit the use of dry ice for rat abatement because the deadly treatment is not registered with the federal agency as required. Nov 30, 2016. - https://www.pctonline.com/news/epa-dry-ice-control-rodents/
“State and local governments were clamoring for the EPA to find a way to approve dry ice, through a special, local need; emergency; or traditional registration,” Dr. Fredericks says. “The NPMA strongly encouraged the EPA to register the product. The registration was approved relatively quickly, most likely due to having an innovative, willing registrant, coupled with a well understood, effective, low-toxicity product.” It’s also important to note that dry ice is not registered for use on any other pests, with one exception: CO2 gas is registered for use against stored product pests as a fumigant. - https://www.mypmp.net/2017/08/23/epa-clarifies-use-of-dry-ice-on-rats/
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