The Murder of Beverley Rowbotham
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In 2000, Beverley Rowbotham moved her family from Saskatchewan to Manitoba after her husband Mark Stobbe was offered a high-profile job there. But as they started settling into their new house, the problems started…. and it was one thing after another.
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| 0:00.0 | Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production, funded through advertising and direct donations. |
| 0:04.9 | The podcast contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature. |
| 0:10.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:13.1 | It was October of 2000, and Beverly Robotham had a job interview to prepare for. |
| 0:20.0 | The 42-year-old mother of two had just moved her |
| 0:23.1 | family from Regina, Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It wasn't her idea. Her husband, Mark |
| 0:31.1 | Stobee, had built a successful career working for the Saskatchewan government and had received |
| 0:36.7 | a new job offer too good to pass up. |
| 0:40.3 | When Beverly and Mark met in Regina nine years beforehand in 1991, she worked in the |
| 0:47.0 | human resources field for the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission. She valued her work |
| 0:52.4 | and was known to be very good at her job, just as Mark was. |
| 0:57.6 | Beverly and Mark got on well and were known to be very affectionate as a couple. Two years after |
| 1:03.8 | meeting, they got married and in the years that followed, they had two sons. Mark's career |
| 1:10.7 | continued to take off and he ended up as a senior advisor to then Saskatchewan |
| 1:15.5 | Premier Roy Romano. |
| 1:17.6 | It was a high profile role that saw him quoted often by the media as a government spokesperson. |
| 1:24.8 | But Mark was ready for his next challenge and was taking his time looking for the right next position. |
| 1:30.3 | In April of 2000, he was offered a new job in the next province over, Manitoba. |
| 1:37.3 | He would be a senior communications advisor to Premier Gary Doer, a prestigious, high-profile role that required the family to move. |
| 1:48.1 | For Beverly, this would work out well. She already had family that lived out that way, |
| 1:53.3 | including her older sister and mother. It would be good to be closer to them. So, they packed up |
| 2:00.5 | and moved. Beverly and they packed up and moved. |
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