[1][2] His crime was dramatised in the TV movie Bloodlines, with Bouwer being portrayed by Mark Mitchinson.
[1] After moving to New Zealand, he became the head of the Department of Psychological Medicine of the University of Otago's medical school at Dunedin Hospital.
He claimed that his wife was Jewish and therefore had to be buried within 48 hours of dying, but her funeral was conducted in an Anglican church.
[11] Significant levels of sedatives and insulin were found in her blood, and a further investigation showed they had been obtained via 11 forged prescriptions.
The police found a string of email inquiries he had sent to hypoglycaemia experts, claiming he was a forensic psychiatrist.
[13] The prosecution argued that Bouwer killed his wife to obtain her life insurance and presented over 150 witnesses.
[14] His sister-in-law revealed that he claimed New Zealand was an ideal place to commit the perfect murder.
It was also revealed that Bouwer had told medical students that injecting someone between the toes with insulin was the perfect way to commit a murder.