Hubby's 'PROS & CONS' LIST TO 'KEEP' PREGNANT WIFE Found After She is Found Dead
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Missouri husband Beau Rothwell, 29, reports his pregnant wife missing. Her car is found abandoned just a mile from home. Rothwell tells police he last saw Jennifer Rothwell, 28, that morning as she left for work.
Days later, Jennifer Rothwell's body is found in a wooded area along Highway 61 near Troy.
An autopsy stated that she suffered blunt force trauma to the head. The day after Jennifer Rothwell went missing, Beau Rothwell is arrested. Police believe he killed his wife — who was six weeks pregnant — sometime on November 11.
Search warrants alleged that Jennifer Rothwell used the internet to search, “What to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant.” The same documents also stated that Beau Rothwell cleaned up some blood and left a small window to the garage open, despite freezing temperatures, to “dissipate the odor.”
Beau Rothwell reportedly told authorities where his pregnant wife’s remains were located. Turns out Beau Rothwell was having an affair and made a pro/con list on whether to stay in the marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | this is Crime stories. |
| 0:14.9 | A gorgeous 28 year old mom to be. |
| 0:18.4 | Vanishes seemingly into thin air. |
| 0:22.0 | What happened to Jennifer? |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:25.5 | This is Crime stories. |
| 0:26.6 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series X. |
| 0:29.8 | 111. First of all, take a listen to this. |
| 0:32.8 | Bow and Jennifer's romance begins while they are both studying engineering at the University |
| 0:37.6 | of Missouri, Columbia. In 2015, they say I do and move to St. Louis for work. |
| 0:43.8 | Jennifer Rothwell is a chemical engineer at MECS Inc. in Chesterfield. |
| 0:48.6 | Bow Rothwell works at Ambitec, now called Zachary Engineering in the St. Louis area. |
| 0:53.8 | Soon, the couple turns their eyes on becoming parents. And just one year later, they get |
| 0:58.1 | the good news, a baby is on the way. |
| 1:00.1 | It sounds like a dream come true. And it is. It's what everyone wants. The American dream, |
| 1:07.1 | a beautiful home, a lovely family, a baby finally on the way, awesome careers in front of |
| 1:14.1 | them, and then somehow in the midst of all this happiness, she disappears. |
| 1:21.1 | Her family, her parents, her husband devastated. Take a listen to Robert Townsend, KSDK. |
| 1:29.1 | I talked to Jennifer Rothwell's parents on the phone. Now they didn't want to go on camera. |
| 1:33.1 | They're big concern. It's just hearing from their daughter. I'm going to step back and you can see right now, |
| 1:37.1 | St. Louis County police, they are here sitting in two vehicles on Rothwell Street. |
| 1:42.1 | They blocked off this street. And the background there where that light is on on the porch, |
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