April 2, 2026
Florida Politician Found Dead, Police Charge Husband With Premeditated Murder
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RSS Feed 40-year-old Stephen Brown was denied bail today after police say he killed his wife and fled the scene. 38-year-old Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was found dead in her home after a friend asked police for a wellness check. Bowen was a beloved politician who was reportedly about to announce a run for higher office. Her family is mourning her loss, months after her own brother took his life after suffering from the trauma of being a Parkland mass shooting survivor.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, April second, and the husband of a South Florida mayor is in jail and charged with premeditated murder after her body was found at their home just yesterday. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ wrohats a shocking story with some of the headlines we saw, they're starting to fill in some details, but we have a mug shot and I'll start there with you. I know this isn't the biggest deal with something about his mug shot even you noticed at least jumped out headsh.
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Speaker 2: It sends chills down your spine.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about forty year old Stephen Bowen, and yes, he is charged with premeditated murder of his beloved wife. And he has a slight smile, maybe even a smirk on his face in the mugshot. Now, look, he could have just it could have just been coincidental when they shot the picture. He didn't realize what the look was on his face. But there's something about it that makes you actually feel sick to your stomach when you see it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what was your reaction when you saw the mugshot.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what he looked pleasant. I mean, he looked like he was a day at the beach. Was I don't know. I don't know what I expect somebody to look like after they've been charged with the premeditated murder of your own wife. But it was it was worth noting. Right, It's not usually the biggest deal, but it was worth noting at least. But robe you said of a beloved mayor. We didn't know anything about her, We're not familiar with her name. You've been doing a little bit of a deep dive about her. People aren't just sending up hopes and prayers, and they are sending they are writing long letters essentially talking about just how wonderful this woman was.
00:01:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about thirty eight year old Nancy Mettayer Bowen. She was the Coral Springs vice mayor. And that's a town just outside of Fort Lauderdale, South Florida, Broward County. And Yeah, usually when you see something tragic and someone's life cut short, you'll see a lot of people pouring out their thoughts and well wishes and condolences.
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Speaker 2: But I noticed it's usually a line or two.
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Speaker 3: It is remarkable to see how many people have rushed to say the most glowing, incredibly kind, wonderful things about this woman, from politicians to family members. And they're not just writing a couple of lines, paragraphs upon paragraphs about how this bright woman.
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Speaker 2: I mean she has.
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Speaker 3: Her master's degree in what was in science, right, environmental health sciences? A master's degree. This is a smart woman with a bright future. And you said we might not know her name, but by all accounts, we might have known her name soon enough.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is a woman who had made an impression, yes, by getting elected to a council, that's one thing by the public. But then she ends up vice mayor because her own peers voted her into that position. But then rope, you keep going along. And then Kamala Harris had tapped her to be a part of her campaign to work in that area for her. And this is a woman now who had her site set on other things and other offices and possibly yes, even Washington, DC at the age of what again thirty eight?
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight?
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Speaker 1: Week, Yes, this is just such a young young woman who just from all accounts, bro she was building the exact type of resume and partnerships that you have in connections to a community that propel you to hire office. This didn't know her name, but this is just a shame.
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Speaker 2: But it is a shame. It is incredibly said.
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Speaker 3: I told you when we woke up this morning and I was looking at the story at six am.
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Speaker 2: She has two different.
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Speaker 3: Social media accounts on Instagram, she had a personal one and a professional one, and throughout it all you'll see pictures on a personal one of her and her husband smiling, looking very much in love.
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Speaker 2: They were only in their third year.
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Speaker 3: Of marriage and it looked to be a happy one on Instagram. But I noticed she had just posted at six am it said twenty one hours earlier, she had posted a beautiful shot of her giving back over the weekend at an Easter event honoring children in her area. So I just thought to myself, I know, it's we do this kind of story sadly all the time. We've covered so many stories unfortunately similar to this, for the past three decades. But it's something to see, my God. Less than twenty four hours ago, she was on social media posting pictures and talking about an event, and this morning she's she's not here, And what a huge hole that's left in her community and in her family.
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Speaker 1: And there's something about why you look at Instagram pages. This is how we get to know people oftentimes that you don't know. But Rose, it seemed like everything is going along just great in life. It did, I know it often does on Instagram, but to the point that she was still posting what was the last post it was?
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Speaker 3: It was a post about her weekend giving back to a bunch of kids, an Easter event, a pre Easter event in her in her district.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, there's something poetic and sad about that, even as we get to learn more and more about But yeah, Robes knowing and thinking that this is not, at least anywhere where she thought her life was or was going to be. Her life was continuing along her work and then all of a sudden it got cut off Robes while she was in the middle of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is shocking.
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Speaker 3: She had an unbelievable present that she had built her life towards, and she had an incredible future waiting for her, but unfortunately it happened. At ten am yesterday morning, police responded to a welfare check from local reports. A friend of hers was looking for her and she wasn't responding to her, so that friend called the husband. That's a very natural next step, Hey do you know where Nancy is? And the friend told police that his responses were suspicious enough that they then hung up the phone after talking to the husband Stephen Bowen and called police and said, can you please check on my friend? And that is when police found her life lifeless body there in her home and her husband was nowhere to be found initially.
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Speaker 1: And we'll get more details about that phone call, but that's obviously something happened in that call. You don't just send police immediately. That's chilling to think. But we'll get those details later. But that I'm very curious to know. And in Rome, if a friend hurts something out of the ordinary enough to call police, was this maybe the first time? You would have to say? Probably not. There had to be some concern prior. There's no friend of yours that anybody you would the first thing you would think was to call.
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Speaker 2: Police right after talking to you, the.
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Speaker 1: First thing, with no history or anything like that. We don't know that. And there's nothing I've seen indicated anything right that you say they were picture perfect?
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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, if you can go right now onto Nancy Mettiar Bowen's personal and on her professional Instagram page, and you will see nothing but joy and service and love and friendship and what looks to be a very happy marriage. In fact, I looked at this post from her two year wedding anniversary. It had a picture of the two of them with Coral Springs the logo behind them. I'm guessing it was their wedding day. It looked like it was right outside of city Hall. And she said two years with the amazing Stephen Bowen, cheers to love, growth and building a beautiful life together. That was November twenty second, twenty twenty four, So a year and a half later and she's dead and he's charged with her murder.
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Speaker 1: And like you said, after they did the welfare check to pick back up and found her body, you said, he was nowhere to be found. Now he ends up. How far out of town was it, did you catch? But I didn't.
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Speaker 2: They used the plantation Florida.
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Speaker 3: I don't know where that is in relation to Coral Springs, but it was out of the city.
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Speaker 1: And they use right, we were doing this earlier, doing this story, and they use the word.
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Speaker 3: Fled, Yes, fled and Afri handed at a friend's apartment complex.
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Speaker 2: Was the way police worded it, hanging.
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Speaker 1: Out with a friend. I mean that suggests a lot or looks bad. Is that what we say?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 3: And to that point, police made it very clear that this They didn't give details as to how she was killed, but they did make a point to say it was a domestic violent violence situation and that no other suspects or threats to the community exist following the arrest of Stephen Bowen, so they're fairly certain.
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Speaker 2: They're saying they are certain they got their guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they always have to put that out and they usually are pretty good or pretty careful about telling the community there is no further risk. They feel like they got the guy. And I didn't understand the premeditated he's been charged with premeditated murder and the domestic violence situation. I'm curious to hear when we do get detailed at some point what that's about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, because that's a quick usually to go to that extreme or to get that specific. A lot of times a great and jury will have looked at the evidence and then make it a determination as to exactly what type of murder charge.
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Speaker 2: Somebody's facing.
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Speaker 3: So to immediately face a first degree premeditated murder charge, there must have been something there that led them to that. Also tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. So they're saying through the charges that it looks like he tried to cover it up in some way.
00:09:22
Speaker 1: Well, again, curious to hear what all that's about. They finally got him, and again I just looked up. It's only eleven miles half hour drive it posts between those two places. So he didn't get far.
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Speaker 3: He didn't go far, but he distanced himself from the scene. And look, this was a woman, as we mentioned to his love, she had a lot of First, she became the first black and Haitian American female commissioner in the city of Correl Springs in twenty twenty, and then she was re elected again. And as you pointed out, I think it's so interesting that she was appointed to serve as vice mayor by her fellow commissioners. Everyone spoke so highly of this woman and her actual care and concern for the people she served. I mentioned she was an environmental scientist and she got her master's degree from Johns Hopkins. I mean this was a smart, accomplished woman who had her sight set on a bigger political career career, and it just it makes me so sad to think about. I mean, obviously the value of a human life is the same, but to think about what she still had left to contribute and what good she still had left to do in this world, it's beyond tragic to have that cut short.
00:10:32
Speaker 1: No, you're right, there are a lot of her life is more valuable than any other. And there's so many of these stories we won't hear about today. There will be women who will be hit, abused and killed by their partners today. All those stories, Yes, we always worth pointing that all those lives are just as much of value. But this is the one who was out there whose story we do know, the story we do connect to in a lot of ways. She was an American dream, yeah, in a lot of ways, and this, unfortunately Rome's becomes a part of the American nightmare. With when domestic violence has talked about and how we talk about it. We've been talking about it recently, we have it's who knows what they'll start talking about signs? Is this really the first time? The first time?
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Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine, but we hopefully will get more details because this is something, This is a cautionary tale. This is something and could serve as a wake up call to other women.
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Speaker 2: But it is tragic, nonetheless.
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Speaker 3: And when we come back just speaking about how much this woman was loved, we have her family statement, but some incredible statements from the city of Coral Springs, from local politicians, from people who knew her and loved her, so you can remember just how special Nancy truly was. Welcome back, everyone to the episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about a tragic situation out of Coral Springs, Florida, where the mayor there was murdered, police say by her husband of just three years, thirty eight year old Nancy Metti R.
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Speaker 2: Bowen.
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Speaker 3: She was the vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, and was beloved by so many and is now being remembered for just what a special person she was by so many people in the community. Her family released a statement talking about how yes, her public office was a lot of how she was known and how she was regarded through her many years there, but they wanted to just talk about her as a sister, as a daughter as just a dedicated woman whose warmth and laughter filled every room.
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Speaker 2: They said her legacy.
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Speaker 3: Will live on not only in the policies she helped shape, but in the countless lives she touched. The condolences are just remarkable in their length and in what they say and by whom.
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Speaker 2: Just so many people love this woman.
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Speaker 1: That's really cool. I mean, I mean, who knows what was she had or sight set on. What would the country have come to know her name had she been allowed to continue her work and on the path she was on. I hate to know her name this.
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Speaker 2: Way, Yeah, I do you know, that's the one way to put it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we hear directly from Congressman Jared Moskowitz, who is the US congressman who represents this district. He said, I'm in shock. I was just with her on Saturday. She just buried her brother. She was about to announce she was running for congress. He said she was one of the nicest people he's ever worked with, and that she was always fighting for her community, always pushing to help, and that reminds us this family, this meta Yar family, has been through an unthinkable amount of sorrow and tragedy in the past several months.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe this story. But frankly, so much of what happened at Parkland, didn't it touch so many people in so many communities ways, I guess this isn't a surprise that she would have a connection to that awful tragedy. Yes, her brother survived, survived that high school shooting, but then just a few months ago took his own life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is just it's unthinkably difficult. I just I'm imagining being a member of the Mediar family. I don't know how you bear this much. But in December of last year of medi Air, Bowen's twenty six year old brother, Joshua died by suicide. They say that he basically just couldn't get over the depression. They said that the trauma of that massacre that happened February fourteenth, I forgot it was on Valentine's Day of twenty eighteen. They say that the trauma from that massacre quote lingered long after graduation and profoundly altered the course of his life. And so finally, they say, depression, guilt, emotion, instability, and long periods of isolation replaced the vibrant young man we once knew. We don't think about that. We think about, oh, you survived the school shooting. Or we think about, of course the people, the students, the teachers who died in these school shootings. But the people who survived live with survivor's guilt and terror and trauma. You wouldn't trust anyone. How comfortable would you ever feel again in a public space. I mean, all of those things we don't really think about what so many people live with each and every day after experiencing something that has become unfortunately commonplace now in this country.
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Speaker 1: I'm going back to look what year that shooting was done? Eight years ago?
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Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen?
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Speaker 1: Were that eight years ago? And to think, yes, a lot of them in that high school still living with this, To think that something that did happen that long ago, and when they go, oh they're getting help and they need to get time and Spae, this was now his life. Yeah, that's how I think about their family right from Houston Haiti, right, Yes, family originally, I mean, that's that's awful. They're here. The dream is being lived, right, the dream is being lived.
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Speaker 3: The dream is being lived, and they have one son who survives a school shooting, only to end up dying by suicide because of the grief and trauma he felt, and then having another child die at the hands of her husband, according to police, through domestic violence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what if you're a family member in Haiti, you're looking over and you've had this violence, like headline making, violence has happened to your family, not.
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Speaker 2: Once, but twice. It's unreal.
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Speaker 3: It really is just one of those moments where you just have to take a beat and you have to remember to hug the people you love, to tell the people you love that that.
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Speaker 2: They matter, that their life matters.
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Speaker 3: I think we just go through who our day and don't recognize how fragile life is and how quickly things can change. And unfortunately this family is learning that in more ways than one. And this is just an incredibly sad situation. Look, we're hoping to get more information, more details about what happened to Nancy, how it happened, why it happened, Not that there's ever a good explanation, but certainly there are a lot of questions still left in this case that need to be answered for family members and for the community who loved her, for the community who she served, but we just wanted to jump on and let you all know who this incredible woman was. Nancy Metti or Bowen, A life cut far too short, and we will certainly continue to follow the development surrounding the justice that we know her family so desperately hopes to get in this case. In the meantime, though, thank you for listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, April second, and the husband of a South Florida mayor is in jail and charged with premeditated murder after her body was found at their home just yesterday. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ wrohats a shocking story with some of the headlines we saw, they're starting to fill in some details, but we have a mug shot and I'll start there with you. I know this isn't the biggest deal with something about his mug shot even you noticed at least jumped out headsh.
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Speaker 2: It sends chills down your spine.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about forty year old Stephen Bowen, and yes, he is charged with premeditated murder of his beloved wife. And he has a slight smile, maybe even a smirk on his face in the mugshot. Now, look, he could have just it could have just been coincidental when they shot the picture. He didn't realize what the look was on his face. But there's something about it that makes you actually feel sick to your stomach when you see it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what was your reaction when you saw the mugshot.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what he looked pleasant. I mean, he looked like he was a day at the beach. Was I don't know. I don't know what I expect somebody to look like after they've been charged with the premeditated murder of your own wife. But it was it was worth noting. Right, It's not usually the biggest deal, but it was worth noting at least. But robe you said of a beloved mayor. We didn't know anything about her, We're not familiar with her name. You've been doing a little bit of a deep dive about her. People aren't just sending up hopes and prayers, and they are sending they are writing long letters essentially talking about just how wonderful this woman was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about thirty eight year old Nancy Mettayer Bowen. She was the Coral Springs vice mayor. And that's a town just outside of Fort Lauderdale, South Florida, Broward County. And Yeah, usually when you see something tragic and someone's life cut short, you'll see a lot of people pouring out their thoughts and well wishes and condolences.
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Speaker 2: But I noticed it's usually a line or two.
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Speaker 3: It is remarkable to see how many people have rushed to say the most glowing, incredibly kind, wonderful things about this woman, from politicians to family members. And they're not just writing a couple of lines, paragraphs upon paragraphs about how this bright woman.
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Speaker 2: I mean she has.
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Speaker 3: Her master's degree in what was in science, right, environmental health sciences? A master's degree. This is a smart woman with a bright future. And you said we might not know her name, but by all accounts, we might have known her name soon enough.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this is a woman who had made an impression, yes, by getting elected to a council, that's one thing by the public. But then she ends up vice mayor because her own peers voted her into that position. But then rope, you keep going along. And then Kamala Harris had tapped her to be a part of her campaign to work in that area for her. And this is a woman now who had her site set on other things and other offices and possibly yes, even Washington, DC at the age of what again thirty eight?
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight?
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Speaker 1: Week, Yes, this is just such a young young woman who just from all accounts, bro she was building the exact type of resume and partnerships that you have in connections to a community that propel you to hire office. This didn't know her name, but this is just a shame.
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Speaker 2: But it is a shame. It is incredibly said.
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Speaker 3: I told you when we woke up this morning and I was looking at the story at six am.
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Speaker 2: She has two different.
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Speaker 3: Social media accounts on Instagram, she had a personal one and a professional one, and throughout it all you'll see pictures on a personal one of her and her husband smiling, looking very much in love.
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Speaker 2: They were only in their third year.
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Speaker 3: Of marriage and it looked to be a happy one on Instagram. But I noticed she had just posted at six am it said twenty one hours earlier, she had posted a beautiful shot of her giving back over the weekend at an Easter event honoring children in her area. So I just thought to myself, I know, it's we do this kind of story sadly all the time. We've covered so many stories unfortunately similar to this, for the past three decades. But it's something to see, my God. Less than twenty four hours ago, she was on social media posting pictures and talking about an event, and this morning she's she's not here, And what a huge hole that's left in her community and in her family.
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Speaker 1: And there's something about why you look at Instagram pages. This is how we get to know people oftentimes that you don't know. But Rose, it seemed like everything is going along just great in life. It did, I know it often does on Instagram, but to the point that she was still posting what was the last post it was?
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Speaker 3: It was a post about her weekend giving back to a bunch of kids, an Easter event, a pre Easter event in her in her district.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, there's something poetic and sad about that, even as we get to learn more and more about But yeah, Robes knowing and thinking that this is not, at least anywhere where she thought her life was or was going to be. Her life was continuing along her work and then all of a sudden it got cut off Robes while she was in the middle of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is shocking.
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Speaker 3: She had an unbelievable present that she had built her life towards, and she had an incredible future waiting for her, but unfortunately it happened. At ten am yesterday morning, police responded to a welfare check from local reports. A friend of hers was looking for her and she wasn't responding to her, so that friend called the husband. That's a very natural next step, Hey do you know where Nancy is? And the friend told police that his responses were suspicious enough that they then hung up the phone after talking to the husband Stephen Bowen and called police and said, can you please check on my friend? And that is when police found her life lifeless body there in her home and her husband was nowhere to be found initially.
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Speaker 1: And we'll get more details about that phone call, but that's obviously something happened in that call. You don't just send police immediately. That's chilling to think. But we'll get those details later. But that I'm very curious to know. And in Rome, if a friend hurts something out of the ordinary enough to call police, was this maybe the first time? You would have to say? Probably not. There had to be some concern prior. There's no friend of yours that anybody you would the first thing you would think was to call.
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Speaker 2: Police right after talking to you, the.
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Speaker 1: First thing, with no history or anything like that. We don't know that. And there's nothing I've seen indicated anything right that you say they were picture perfect?
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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, if you can go right now onto Nancy Mettiar Bowen's personal and on her professional Instagram page, and you will see nothing but joy and service and love and friendship and what looks to be a very happy marriage. In fact, I looked at this post from her two year wedding anniversary. It had a picture of the two of them with Coral Springs the logo behind them. I'm guessing it was their wedding day. It looked like it was right outside of city Hall. And she said two years with the amazing Stephen Bowen, cheers to love, growth and building a beautiful life together. That was November twenty second, twenty twenty four, So a year and a half later and she's dead and he's charged with her murder.
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Speaker 1: And like you said, after they did the welfare check to pick back up and found her body, you said, he was nowhere to be found. Now he ends up. How far out of town was it, did you catch? But I didn't.
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Speaker 2: They used the plantation Florida.
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Speaker 3: I don't know where that is in relation to Coral Springs, but it was out of the city.
00:07:53
Speaker 1: And they use right, we were doing this earlier, doing this story, and they use the word.
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Speaker 3: Fled, Yes, fled and Afri handed at a friend's apartment complex.
00:08:02
Speaker 2: Was the way police worded it, hanging.
00:08:05
Speaker 1: Out with a friend. I mean that suggests a lot or looks bad. Is that what we say?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 3: And to that point, police made it very clear that this They didn't give details as to how she was killed, but they did make a point to say it was a domestic violent violence situation and that no other suspects or threats to the community exist following the arrest of Stephen Bowen, so they're fairly certain.
00:08:31
Speaker 2: They're saying they are certain they got their guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they always have to put that out and they usually are pretty good or pretty careful about telling the community there is no further risk. They feel like they got the guy. And I didn't understand the premeditated he's been charged with premeditated murder and the domestic violence situation. I'm curious to hear when we do get detailed at some point what that's about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, because that's a quick usually to go to that extreme or to get that specific. A lot of times a great and jury will have looked at the evidence and then make it a determination as to exactly what type of murder charge.
00:09:05
Speaker 2: Somebody's facing.
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Speaker 3: So to immediately face a first degree premeditated murder charge, there must have been something there that led them to that. Also tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. So they're saying through the charges that it looks like he tried to cover it up in some way.
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Speaker 1: Well, again, curious to hear what all that's about. They finally got him, and again I just looked up. It's only eleven miles half hour drive it posts between those two places. So he didn't get far.
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Speaker 3: He didn't go far, but he distanced himself from the scene. And look, this was a woman, as we mentioned to his love, she had a lot of First, she became the first black and Haitian American female commissioner in the city of Correl Springs in twenty twenty, and then she was re elected again. And as you pointed out, I think it's so interesting that she was appointed to serve as vice mayor by her fellow commissioners. Everyone spoke so highly of this woman and her actual care and concern for the people she served. I mentioned she was an environmental scientist and she got her master's degree from Johns Hopkins. I mean this was a smart, accomplished woman who had her sight set on a bigger political career career, and it just it makes me so sad to think about. I mean, obviously the value of a human life is the same, but to think about what she still had left to contribute and what good she still had left to do in this world, it's beyond tragic to have that cut short.
00:10:32
Speaker 1: No, you're right, there are a lot of her life is more valuable than any other. And there's so many of these stories we won't hear about today. There will be women who will be hit, abused and killed by their partners today. All those stories, Yes, we always worth pointing that all those lives are just as much of value. But this is the one who was out there whose story we do know, the story we do connect to in a lot of ways. She was an American dream, yeah, in a lot of ways, and this, unfortunately Rome's becomes a part of the American nightmare. With when domestic violence has talked about and how we talk about it. We've been talking about it recently, we have it's who knows what they'll start talking about signs? Is this really the first time? The first time?
00:11:21
Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine, but we hopefully will get more details because this is something, This is a cautionary tale. This is something and could serve as a wake up call to other women.
00:11:31
Speaker 2: But it is tragic, nonetheless.
00:11:33
Speaker 3: And when we come back just speaking about how much this woman was loved, we have her family statement, but some incredible statements from the city of Coral Springs, from local politicians, from people who knew her and loved her, so you can remember just how special Nancy truly was. Welcome back, everyone to the episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about a tragic situation out of Coral Springs, Florida, where the mayor there was murdered, police say by her husband of just three years, thirty eight year old Nancy Metti R.
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Speaker 2: Bowen.
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Speaker 3: She was the vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, and was beloved by so many and is now being remembered for just what a special person she was by so many people in the community. Her family released a statement talking about how yes, her public office was a lot of how she was known and how she was regarded through her many years there, but they wanted to just talk about her as a sister, as a daughter as just a dedicated woman whose warmth and laughter filled every room.
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Speaker 2: They said her legacy.
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Speaker 3: Will live on not only in the policies she helped shape, but in the countless lives she touched. The condolences are just remarkable in their length and in what they say and by whom.
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Speaker 2: Just so many people love this woman.
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Speaker 1: That's really cool. I mean, I mean, who knows what was she had or sight set on. What would the country have come to know her name had she been allowed to continue her work and on the path she was on. I hate to know her name this.
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Speaker 2: Way, Yeah, I do you know, that's the one way to put it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we hear directly from Congressman Jared Moskowitz, who is the US congressman who represents this district. He said, I'm in shock. I was just with her on Saturday. She just buried her brother. She was about to announce she was running for congress. He said she was one of the nicest people he's ever worked with, and that she was always fighting for her community, always pushing to help, and that reminds us this family, this meta Yar family, has been through an unthinkable amount of sorrow and tragedy in the past several months.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe this story. But frankly, so much of what happened at Parkland, didn't it touch so many people in so many communities ways, I guess this isn't a surprise that she would have a connection to that awful tragedy. Yes, her brother survived, survived that high school shooting, but then just a few months ago took his own life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is just it's unthinkably difficult. I just I'm imagining being a member of the Mediar family. I don't know how you bear this much. But in December of last year of medi Air, Bowen's twenty six year old brother, Joshua died by suicide. They say that he basically just couldn't get over the depression. They said that the trauma of that massacre that happened February fourteenth, I forgot it was on Valentine's Day of twenty eighteen. They say that the trauma from that massacre quote lingered long after graduation and profoundly altered the course of his life. And so finally, they say, depression, guilt, emotion, instability, and long periods of isolation replaced the vibrant young man we once knew. We don't think about that. We think about, oh, you survived the school shooting. Or we think about, of course the people, the students, the teachers who died in these school shootings. But the people who survived live with survivor's guilt and terror and trauma. You wouldn't trust anyone. How comfortable would you ever feel again in a public space. I mean, all of those things we don't really think about what so many people live with each and every day after experiencing something that has become unfortunately commonplace now in this country.
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Speaker 1: I'm going back to look what year that shooting was done? Eight years ago?
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Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen?
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Speaker 1: Were that eight years ago? And to think, yes, a lot of them in that high school still living with this, To think that something that did happen that long ago, and when they go, oh they're getting help and they need to get time and Spae, this was now his life. Yeah, that's how I think about their family right from Houston Haiti, right, Yes, family originally, I mean, that's that's awful. They're here. The dream is being lived, right, the dream is being lived.
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Speaker 3: The dream is being lived, and they have one son who survives a school shooting, only to end up dying by suicide because of the grief and trauma he felt, and then having another child die at the hands of her husband, according to police, through domestic violence.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what if you're a family member in Haiti, you're looking over and you've had this violence, like headline making, violence has happened to your family, not.
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Speaker 2: Once, but twice. It's unreal.
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Speaker 3: It really is just one of those moments where you just have to take a beat and you have to remember to hug the people you love, to tell the people you love that that.
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Speaker 2: They matter, that their life matters.
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Speaker 3: I think we just go through who our day and don't recognize how fragile life is and how quickly things can change. And unfortunately this family is learning that in more ways than one. And this is just an incredibly sad situation. Look, we're hoping to get more information, more details about what happened to Nancy, how it happened, why it happened, Not that there's ever a good explanation, but certainly there are a lot of questions still left in this case that need to be answered for family members and for the community who loved her, for the community who she served, but we just wanted to jump on and let you all know who this incredible woman was. Nancy Metti or Bowen, A life cut far too short, and we will certainly continue to follow the development surrounding the justice that we know her family so desperately hopes to get in this case. In the meantime, though, thank you for listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.