True Crime with Kendall Rae
Poison Expert Allegedly Spikes Wife’s Smoothie?! The Case of Betty Bowman
24 Apr 2025
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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