{"id":1197380,"date":"2023-10-27T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197380"},"modified":"2023-10-27T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:42:28","slug":"poison-expert-allegedly-poisoned-wife-with-a-shockingly-toxic-gout-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197380","title":{"rendered":"Poison expert allegedly poisoned wife\u2014with a shockingly toxic gout drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colchicine-from-xtal-Mercury-3D-balls-800x583-1.png\" alt=\"Ball-and-stick model of the colchicine molecule.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colchicine-from-xtal-Mercury-3D-balls.png\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1398\" data-width=\"1920\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Ball-and-stick model of the colchicine molecule. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colchicine#\/media\/File:Colchicine-from-xtal-Mercury-3D-balls.png\">Wikimedia | Ben Mills<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Minnesota doctor who had worked for a poison control center was charged this week in the poisoning death of his wife, who died from a lethal dose of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/ershdb\/emergencyresponsecard_29750016.html\">highly toxic gout medication, colchicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Bowman, 30, was arrested last Friday and<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Connor-Bowman-Criminal-Complaint.pdf\"> charged Monday with second-degree murder<\/a> in the death of Betty Bowman, 32, who worked as a pharmacist at the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>In an investigation that followed her suspicious death on August 20, police learned that the two were having marital problems, including a deteriorating relationship and infidelity, and were talking about a divorce. They also learned that Connor Bowman was in debt and stood to gain $500,000 in life insurance upon his wife&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979464#p3\">Read 15 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979464&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poison expert allegedly poisoned wife\u2014with a shockingly toxic gout drug<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Ball-and-stick model of the colchicine molecule. (credit: Wikimedia | Ben Mills) A Minnesota doctor who had worked for a poison control center was charged this week in the poisoning death of his wife, who died from a lethal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1197380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}