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00:01Tim was very disoriented in front of his class.
00:06He just didn't seem himself.
00:08Um, excuse me.
00:11I'm really not with it today.
00:15The first thought that came to mind is, what the ?
00:19Shocking details are revealed tonight about how far a Bellingham woman is accused of going to kill her boyfriend.
00:25The most bizarre case in the whole state of Washington.
00:30An extremely unhealthy mother-daughter relationship.
00:35Hello. Could I have a recipe to kill your son?
00:41You go shoot him.
00:43And the mommy will be right here.
00:45Somebody's gonna die.
01:00I was home getting ready for bed.
01:06When I got called out, a college professor, Timothy Bowman, hadn't showed up for work.
01:18And they were concerned about his welfare.
01:23I was a co-worker of Tim's.
01:26He wasn't answering the phone.
01:28And it was very unlike him not to even call and tell us he was sick.
01:34We walked around and knocked on the doors.
01:39Got no response.
01:41We were trying to understand what had happened.
01:45If he had fallen and knocked himself unconscious.
01:48But something told me it was more than just somebody not showing up for work.
01:57When we arrived, the entire house was secured.
02:01A neighbor provided information that there was a window on that second floor that didn't lock.
02:08And we had to gain access through that unlocked window.
02:11It was slowly dawning on me that this was quite serious.
02:18Detectives arrive at Timothy Bowman's home.
02:22And start looking to see where he could possibly be in the home.
02:26They make their way to the bedroom.
02:30We see the victim lying on the bed.
02:34With a single gunshot wound to the back of his head.
02:39It was pretty obvious that it was a close contact wound.
02:45The bed sheets were soaked with blood.
02:50Skull fragments.
02:53Brain matter also found on the bed.
02:57The crime scene is nothing short of grisly and gruesome.
03:02When you've got something so egregious as a point blank shooting or an execution style murder.
03:07It's very deliberate, very personal.
03:11Even the most hardened law enforcement officers are not going to forget that.
03:17Huh.
03:19On Monday, March 4th, Tim Bowman was found shot to death in his own bed.
03:25Bowman did not show up for work and officers were asked to check on his welfare.
03:30You don't expect at 43 years old for your brother to get checked out.
03:45My parents were destroyed by the news.
03:49You know, no parent wants to have to bury their kid.
03:55I felt like something has just been torn out of your heart.
04:02And it left a big empty feeling.
04:08We were all so stunned that he was gone.
04:17There are six boys in the family.
04:20Tim was the oldest.
04:22We were very close as kids growing up.
04:24This one's one I like.
04:28Big smile.
04:30He was a role model in a lot of ways.
04:33He was always friendly and kind and had almost like a Labrador kind of personality.
04:38He was a great athlete.
04:41He ran two Boston marathons.
04:44He was on the wrestling team.
04:48He had to wrestle with five brothers quite a bit.
04:53Encouraging us to stand our ground.
04:56Tim had always had an interest in and was teaching Native American culture.
05:03He was a good son and a good brother.
05:06Tim had a common-law wife, Naomi Kenny, who was 31.
05:21They had two children.
05:25And at the time of the murder, Naomi was actually pregnant with their third child.
05:32When we arrived, all of the doors were locked.
05:45It would be very unusual for a killer to enter the house, shoot and kill Mr. Bowman,
05:52and then lock the door on his way out.
05:55We have to consider suicide.
05:57But when we don't find the weapon, we rule that out.
06:03We searched the remaining part of the house,
06:07looking for any additional victims.
06:11We found none, nor did we find any other occupants of the house.
06:17We do a canvas in the neighborhood.
06:20One of the neighbors said that she had seen Naomi and the kids during the weekend, but not since the weekend.
06:29It's vitally important that we talk to her.
06:32But there's a problem.
06:35No one seems to know where Naomi is.
06:37Naomi Kinney and Tim met in Oregon.
06:49She was helping on the track team that he was associated with as a coach.
06:55Naomi had a falling out with her mother, Judith.
06:58She had a tumultuous relationship with her daughter.
07:03Judith kicked her out of the home.
07:05Naomi had nowhere to go and was looking for a place to live.
07:12My brother was one of those types of people who would give the shirt off of his back.
07:17It ended up they not only shared a home, but they shared a bedroom too.
07:26Naomi was in her 20s.
07:30The age gap was 12 years.
07:33She was totally infatuated with him.
07:36He's the one for me. I know he's the one for me.
07:42She really loved the fact that she thought Tim needed her.
07:45My brothers and I and my dad went out to Washington.
08:00We didn't know what was going on in Tim's life at that time.
08:06We met Mr. Bowman's family.
08:09They had no idea who would want to harm him.
08:11We tell them that Naomi is the person that we wanted to speak with the most.
08:17The sheriff said, I'm going to have to interrupt our conversation here.
08:23We just have an incoming call.
08:26They just adjourned the meeting.
08:28We didn't know what was going on.
08:30I went to answer the phone and it was Naomi Kinney.
08:33My heart's racing. Adrenaline is going.
08:38Naomi had heard that something had happened to Tim Bowman.
08:43She asked us, is it true? Is he dead?
08:47She was at a safe house for battered women.
08:51She said that she had been the victim of abuse at the hands of Mr. Bowman.
08:59Naomi said that she left her home at about 7 a.m. the day before.
09:06We found Tim.
09:10Naomi said that she had a black eye which Tim had given her.
09:14She tells them that her relationship with Tim was very troubled.
09:20And it had been for quite a number of years.
09:23And that she had finally had the courage and strength to walk away from that relationship.
09:29This changes the way investigators view the case.
09:33But this wasn't the first time detectives have heard about the abuse.
09:37As we're looking around the house, we discover something very significant in this case.
09:50We see a note on the dining room table.
09:55A letter reportedly written by Naomi in which she talks about abuse in the home.
10:03I've taken the kids to my mom's and I'll be seeking a restraining order against you.
10:14The note also said that there was a strange man in the neighborhood.
10:21Presumably wanting to do business with the victim.
10:26It raises a lot of questions.
10:28Who was Tim?
10:29Is Tim leading a double life?
10:33Does Tim have a violent side?
10:38Does Tim have a drug problem?
10:41Is Tim involved in criminal activity?
10:45Are there any other people out there that wanted Tim Bowman dead?
10:48And we went to the safe house to interview Naomi.
11:05I'm thinking that hopefully this case will break wide open.
11:07When we meet Naomi, what she told us about the abuse was consistent with what she put in the letter.
11:18She did have a black eye, which she said was caused by Tim Bowman striking her.
11:23And she claimed a shady character lurking around the neighborhood was responsible for Tim Bowman's death.
11:34We expected her to be very distraught, crying, very upset.
11:41And she wasn't that at all.
11:42Here's a woman who's trying to escape being abused and battered for the sake of not only her life, but the life of her children.
11:51She felt she had no choice but to flee.
11:53There were times when they were happy together.
12:03But Tim and Naomi had the kids early on.
12:07And they were in disagreement about how to raise the kids.
12:12The relationship really escalated into a lot of arguing and yelling.
12:17They slowly drove each other nuts.
12:25It was at this time Tim got a job opportunity.
12:28So he left the kids and Naomi behind in Oregon and moved on to Washington.
12:34He was offered the position at Northwest Indian College.
12:39He thought that that was a new start.
12:42They realized that long-term parenting together wasn't going to work.
12:49He was making trips back to visit the kids.
12:52And he was trying to get control of the situation and make things better for both of the boys.
12:58He wanted out of the relationship.
13:01But Naomi was never going to accept that.
13:05She was going to follow him and she was going to prove to him that he loved her.
13:10She showed up on his doorstep, forced her way in, when things started all over again.
13:19Before meeting Tim, Naomi lived in Albany, Oregon with her mother, Judith.
13:35Judith was a nurse at the local hospital.
13:44I lived in Albany in a duplex next door to Judith.
13:49There was a swimming pool that was out in front of our duplex.
13:54And so we all kind of went out there and talked.
13:58Naomi and her mom, they were pretty tight.
14:09Judith was very controlling.
14:12Naomi was in her early 20s.
14:16But whatever her mom wanted Naomi to do, she did it.
14:22There was an incident that Naomi relayed where, when she was in her early teens, they had someone move in with them.
14:33She was instructed by Judith to do whatever she needed to do in order to keep them happy.
14:40It's extreme controlling behavior.
14:44If true, it could very well also be child abuse and a crime.
14:51When Naomi decided to move to Washington, her mom let her know that she was very disappointed in her.
15:06After she got together with Tim, Tim had replaced Judith.
15:11It would not surprise me if Judith felt that Tim was a threat by taking Naomi away from her.
15:22A lot of us neighbors anticipated there's going to be problems.
15:27I would not.
15:29I would not cross her at a wall.
15:31Over a period of time, Tim became very concerned about the health and the welfare of the kids.
15:46Tim said Naomi didn't have those nurturing instincts.
15:51The younger of the two, he was underweight.
15:55He said he was not being cared for at night.
15:57And there were other concerns.
16:01The living conditions, they were just, it was a mess.
16:07There wasn't even a table.
16:10There wasn't a place for the kids to play.
16:13The refrigerator was full of rotten food.
16:18There's no way for anybody to live.
16:20During the investigation, we canvassed the neighborhood.
16:32Nobody saw a strange looking man lurking around.
16:37We could find nobody that could validate that this guy even existed.
16:41There was also no evidence to suggest that Tim was into any illegal activity.
16:49Or that he was abusive on his part.
16:52So when her story starts falling apart and not really adding up to what she's saying,
17:00they start to become suspicious.
17:02And detectives asked Naomi to come in.
17:04She told us that she had studied criminal justice in college and that if she had committed a murder,
17:24she would be smart enough that she would never get caught.
17:26Hearing that comment from her was very suspicious because we hadn't accused her of having committed that crime.
17:36Detectives asked Naomi if she'd be willing to take a polygraph test.
17:41I told Naomi that if she had anything to do with Tim's death, she should not take the polygraph.
17:49But she immediately, without any thought or pause, said, I want to take one right now.
17:58I'm a little under the weather today, but that'd be helpful, wouldn't it?
18:21The university would have classes recorded.
18:24And from one of Tim's final classes, there was video of him very disoriented in front of his class.
18:35He just didn't seem himself.
18:37I don't know how much I will say.
18:40Tim was weak and shaky.
18:45And I slurred, kind of disoriented.
18:51I have some questions that I've been asked.
18:56He was definitely confused.
18:59Political systems.
19:01It wasn't his sharp, light sense of humor.
19:06And, uh, excuse me.
19:08It wasn't the way my brother would normally act.
19:11That there are many concepts.
19:13He told my coworker he thought he'd been poisoned.
19:17Um, excuse me.
19:21I'm really not with it today.
19:23And so my colleague took him to the hospital.
19:26Unfortunately, they couldn't find anything in his body that was making him sick.
19:32So they sent him away.
19:33I genuinely did not know he was in danger.
19:39I wish that I had been able to protect him.
19:43Naomi comes in.
19:54She's wired up.
19:56We asked if she had anything to do with Tim's murder.
20:00She said no.
20:02But the polygraph machine said deception.
20:05Naomi ends up failing the polygraph test, which indicates to detectives that she's clearly lying.
20:13But that wasn't the end of it.
20:16When the autopsy results come in, that's when detectives strike gold.
20:22The results of the autopsy show he died from a single 9mm shell.
20:27The vital piece of evidence, now we know the caliber of the weapon that was used to kill him.
20:34I asked her if she owned a firearm.
20:37Naomi confirmed that she did have a gun and that it was a 9mm.
20:43Naomi is now investigator's prime suspect in a homicide.
20:55When Naomi moved up to move in with Tim and Washington, they would be on kind of a roller coaster.
21:02She was pushing for marriage in their relationship, and Tim was not.
21:08Naomi had a pretty hot temper.
21:10She had a pretty violent streak, you know.
21:14There was a time when she tried to grab him by the testicles.
21:20Tried to strangle him down there or do some kind of harm to him.
21:25He had bruises and ended up with a double hernia and was in the hospital for a while.
21:33There was some domestic violence, but Mr. Bowman was the victim and not the perpetrator.
21:40And we all told him, you need to end this and get out of it.
21:45And then talk about utter shock.
21:48That moment of madness.
21:50I'd be pissed too if I was hurt.
21:52Tim did make a bad mistake.
21:54Tim actually gave Naomi an engagement ring.
22:10That was a mistake.
22:12Six months later, he asked for that engagement ring to be returned.
22:22Probably not the wisest thing that he could have done because it made her mad, angry.
22:28Tim became very focused on trying to get custody.
22:38Everything changed when Tim got an attorney and she found out about it.
22:42She didn't want to lose Tim and she didn't want to lose her children.
22:48That was a big fear.
22:53Naomi and I went to school together.
22:55We got reacquainted when she was an adult.
23:05She came to our house and my husband rented a movie, a suspense thriller.
23:12When we first started getting into the movie, Naomi got up and she went to the room she was staying in her house and grabbed a stuffed animal.
23:22She said that the movie scared her.
23:24And so she sat on the couch in a ball holding a stuffed animal at 22.
23:37It was not a scary movie.
23:40But her body language was that of a scared child.
23:45She had fear in her a lot.
23:49Things that she couldn't control scared her.
23:51That's because of her relationship with her mom.
24:05Dysfunctional is too light a word to describe the relationship between Judith and Naomi.
24:11It was a dark, very dark relationship.
24:14Naomi said that her mother was verbally and physically abusive to her as a child.
24:21She said there was an incident where her mom knocked her down, sat on her chest and slammed her against the floor.
24:33Judith scares Naomi to her core.
24:37Judith, for all intents and purposes, is the monster you read about.
24:42Judith was trying to encourage Naomi to get custody of the kids on her own.
24:58She really didn't want the kids to be with Tim.
25:04Don't let him get away with it.
25:07She was telling her, if there's a problem, take care of it.
25:11Something has to give.
25:17It's a powder keg situation and it's about to blow.
25:22We asked Naomi, how could it be that somebody would enter their house, shoot Tim Bowman and lock the door as they were leaving?
25:42And she didn't have an answer for that.
25:44Naomi's house of cards folds quickly.
25:50Naomi confesses that the black eye that she said Tim gave to her was something she did to herself.
25:57She had taken a phone and slammed it against her eye to make it look like she had been assaulted by Tim.
26:05It had to have hurt, but that was just the start of Naomi's confession and that's a heck of a way to start.
26:16Naomi decides she wants to tell detectives the truth and writes the most chilling statement.
26:22It was like opening the floodgates.
26:24In her shocking written statement, Naomi details that on Valentine's Day, she baked him cookies, peanut butter and chocolate with the side of poison.
26:46She ended up grounding up quite a number of sleeping pills and then sprinkling them into the recipe.
26:55She essentially poisoned him.
26:59She got a chocolate recipe from my mom to surprise him as though it was a love gift.
27:07That was off the charts to me.
27:10Hello, can I have a recipe to kill your son?
27:14Absolutely bizarre.
27:16But here's the twist.
27:18The pills didn't kill him.
27:19They just knocked him out.
27:21It was like, yes, we have her.
27:27We have the true story.
27:29There's no suspicious man lurking in the neighborhood.
27:34We've caught the killer.
27:35But what came next was even more astonishing.
27:40Naomi reveals to detectives that she wasn't doing this alone.
27:44During our interview with Naomi, she said this wasn't entirely her idea.
28:02There was an accomplice.
28:06The entire time she had someone in her ear.
28:10Her mother, Judas.
28:15In her shocking written statement, Naomi confesses to the plot to conspire and kill Tim with her mother, Judas.
28:23Her mom convinced her that Tim was going to get custody of the kids and they couldn't let that happen.
28:33These two women really wanted to keep control of the children.
28:37Tim was in the way.
28:38So Tim had to go.
28:39From the patio, I heard Judas make a point to say that he wasn't going to get away with it.
28:49You've got to stick with the plan.
28:52My youngest daughter was there with me, too, and she said that somebody's going to die.
28:58Naomi's valentine's confession was just the start.
29:11The attempt to kill him with the sleeping pill in the valentine cookie was attempt number one.
29:17Naomi told us the second attempt to kill Mr. Bowman was while he was under the influence of sleeping pills.
29:36Her mother suggested smother him with a pillow.
29:39On quote, I put a pillow on his face and leaned on it.
29:46He put his hand up and pushed it off.
29:49He went back to sleep.
29:50I called mom back again.
29:53Naomi told her mom, I don't think I'm strong enough.
29:58But Judith was like, no, you just need to do it.
30:02Her mom would encourage her, you need to do this.
30:05And then a third attempt on Valentine's Day, she put a plastic bag over his head.
30:16And he just brushed that off.
30:19Tim was very disoriented.
30:23I think he realized that something was going on.
30:27He had to know that things were escalating.
30:29The interview was very intense.
30:35Seven hours is a long time.
30:42That's mentally exhausting.
30:45But she wanted to talk about the different ways that she tried to kill him.
30:51Her mom would suggest another method, attempt number four, while he was drowsy with drugs.
31:05Naomi lured him to the top of the stairs with the intent to push him down.
31:10She started to push him and had a change of heart.
31:15Apparently she grabbed him, preventing him from falling.
31:19She fails because she says she feels sorry for him.
31:24Then she called her mother.
31:27Now what do I do?
31:29The next attempt occurred while he is still asleep.
31:33Her mother suggests that Naomi take a sock, put a very heavy soap in it, and strike him on the head with it.
31:46The bar of soap in the sock, it didn't work.
31:51It didn't work.
31:55Tim said that he'd woken up on the floor and he didn't know what had happened.
32:04Naomi just wasn't trying to kill him.
32:06It was pure torture.
32:08You can see in the video of his last lecture the toll that it was all taking on him.
32:15Um, and uh, excuse me.
32:20In retrospect, I know he'd been poisoned.
32:23I wish I'd known how serious it was and I'd have him insist he go to the police.
32:31I'm really not with it today.
32:32The last phone call I got from Naomi, what she told me, it stayed with me forever.
32:51She had put a rag in his gas tank and lit the rag on fire.
32:57And I asked her, why would you do that?
33:02And she says, well, he was sleeping at his car.
33:05The first thought that came to mind is, what the ?
33:11But once again, it was a failed attempt.
33:18We had six tents on Mr. Bowman's life. Six.
33:22You're almost in disbelief.
33:28To target one individual and try to kill them multiple times is unheard of.
33:35It gives me the chills.
33:36Our mother's involvement was a continuation of the control that Judith has had on Naomi since she was a child.
33:55Naomi was her puppet.
33:57Whatever Judith wanted, Naomi had to bow down to.
34:01Naomi told us that she felt so relieved and finally telling the truth.
34:17The very last act of murder, Judith was absolutely hell bent on seeing this through.
34:23And when all six attempts failed, Mom says, you're just going to have to shoot it.
34:31Judith tells Naomi to give Tim oral sex as a means to entice him to the bedroom and lure him to his death.
34:42He'll be relaxed. He'll be nice and sleepy. He'll be off guard.
34:48Who does that? I mean, it's absurd. It really is absurd.
34:52They did engage in sex and he fell asleep.
35:00But she calls her mother to tell her that she cannot bring herself to actually shoot this man.
35:09Her mother tells her, you are strong.
35:12You can do this and asks her to stay on the line while Naomi does this act.
35:21And she picked up the gun and walked into the bedroom.
35:26You go shoot him and Mom, you'll be right here.
35:29Shocking details are revealed tonight about how far a Bellingham woman is accused of going to kill her boyfriend.
35:44Judith said, you go do it and come back.
35:57Mommy will be right here on the phone.
36:06I'm sure Judith could have heard the bang over the phone.
36:09Being on the phone with her and saying, I'll be right here, forcing her to shoot.
36:17I think evil is too light a word for Judith.
36:22We have the true story.
36:24Both of them got arrested and charged.
36:26A plea agreement was made between the prosecutor and her defense attorney.
36:45Under the agreement, Kenny will be required to testify against any other person charged.
36:50She had to provide testimony against her co-conspirator, in this case, her mother.
36:58But then there was a twist.
37:03Naomi changed her mind.
37:05She protected her mother.
37:08She decides not to testify against Judith,
37:12which goes to show just how far she was willing to go to protect her mother.
37:17Judith.
37:19She was the mastermind behind the entire crime, so to speak.
37:23She's the one that pushed Naomi towards murdering Tim.
37:27If Naomi was, in fact, abused all those years by her mother, this is a way to get back at her.
37:33But she decides to protect her instead.
37:35It really doesn't make any sense.
37:36Emotionally, I don't believe Naomi ever grew up.
37:42She always kind of did just what her mom said to do.
37:47She was a servant to her mother's every wish.
37:51When in the end, Tim paid the price.
37:54The charging documents read like a movie script.
38:10You could feel the tension in the room.
38:14Several times, we made eye contact.
38:18There was nothing but hatred in her eyes.
38:27No remorse.
38:29And no accountability.
38:35How do you plead to murder in the first degree?
38:38OK, I'm familiar with the facts.
38:40And I will make a finding of guilty of that offense.
38:45She was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
38:51Does she deserve to live when she took my brother's wife?
38:57I don't think so.
38:59Naomi's mother, Judith Kinney, helped to hide the gun near her home in Oregon.
39:09Now Oregon officials are deciding what charges to file against Judith Kinney, who's in her 70s.
39:14Naomi, she said her mom instructed her to pack up the kids and the gun, put the gun back in the safe, and bring the safe down to her in Oregon.
39:26They bought a bag of cement and put the safe carrying the gun in this cement filled garbage can.
39:37Judith took us to where the gun had been disposed of.
39:41It was a ballistic match from the gun to the shell casing that we found.
39:45We charged Judith Kinney with conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to commit murder, and tampering with physical evidence.
39:58Judith, the narcissism within this woman and the ego, she was adamant that she would let Naomi take the fall.
40:09We always felt like he would out live us.
40:10We always felt like he would outlive us.
40:39But that didn't happen.
40:44Being the one raising the kids after all of this and seeing the impact on these kids, removed
40:53from both parents, and that there's no winning in a situation like that, you know?
41:09I don't even think the devil would be that evil.
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