A Colorado woman was found dead in her bathroom in 2023, killed by a single bullet to the head. Her husband is accused of killing her amid ongoing divorce proceedings and framing the murder as a suicide.
Richelle Lowry, 44, never showed up to work after returning from a business trip in October 2023, according to a grand jury indictment from the 18th Judicial District. She was found dead in her Bennett home, 1120 Antelope Drive West, after her employer and soon-to-be-ex-husband each called in welfare checks to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
When deputies entered, they found Richelle Lowry’s luggage in the dining room, with the checked baggage tags from her recent trip still attached, according to the indictment.
Ronald Elton Lowry, Richelle’s husband, was indicted on Feb. 24 on charges of first-degree murder, stalking and tampering with evidence, court records show. The 52-year-old also faces two violent crime sentence enhancers.
As the investigation into his wife’s death continued, the man called friends and family to tell them Richelle Lowry had killed herself, according to the indictment.
Richelle Lowry had two life insurance policies, one worth $300,000 and another worth $200,000, investigators said in the indictment. If her death had been ruled a suicide, Ronald Lowry stood to gain more than $1.33 million, Richelle Lowry’s estate lawyer told deputies, according to the indictment.
Ronald and Richelle Lowry both lived in the Bennett home until September 2023, when the husband moved out amid divorce proceedings, according to the indictment. The wife paid him a lump sum of $400,000 to purchase a new house in Wiggins.
Richelle Lowry repeatedly told family and friends in the months leading up to her death that she was afraid for her life and that, “if anything happened to her, Ronald would be responsible,” the indictment stated. She was “very adamant” that she would not kill herself, and her friends and family members who spoke to detectives all said they did not believe she committed suicide.
She told one friend that she was afraid her husband would take her out fishing and “make it look like a drowning,” or take her hunting, shoot her and “make it look like an accident,” according to the indictment. Richelle said she was “willing to give Ronald anything,” including the house they had shared, to have him out of her life.
On the day of her suspected murder — Oct. 25, 2023 — Richelle Lowry had picked up a prescription and dinner, which investigators discovered untouched, according to the indictment. She was also looking at houses, planning trips and was slated to be part of a wedding two weeks after her death.
Ronald Lowry’s phone was offline the evening before between 4:02 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., according to the indictment.
“The phone was either in airplane mode, restricting it from sending or receiving any signal, or it was turned off,” the indictment stated. “During the time that Ronald’s phone (was) off network, a male with a similar appearance to Ronald (was) captured on Richelle’s home surveillance system.”
The woman’s friends and neighbors told investigators that she had told them about overhearing a conversation in early October 2023 between her husband and his brother about the recent suicide of the brother’s wife, according to the indictment. The men were discussing the benefits the brother received after his wife’s death and “plotting,” Richelle Lowry told several friends, according to the indictment.
Ronald Lowry claimed not to know that Richelle Lowry had started seeing someone new as their divorce proceeded, the indictment stated. However, Arapahoe County investigators discovered several videos of the woman and her new partner had been taken on Ronald Lowry’s phone and later deleted. The videos were deleted on Oct. 25, 2023, just hours after he called the sheriff’s office dispatch to request a welfare check for Richelle, according to the indictment.
“Well you know they always say the truth will set you free,” Ronald Lowry allegedly wrote in a note discovered on his phone, which was included in the indictment. “…I’m so glad I’m FREE of that NARCISSIST, MANIPULATIVE, LYING, CHEATING PERSON. … Thank GOD I sucked as much money out of her as I could.”
Neighbors spotted Ronald Lowry walking around the home on several days in October 2023, including while Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies were on scene investigating his wife’s death, according to the indictment. One neighbor said the man told him that Richelle Lowry had killed herself before pulling out his phone and offering proof of his whereabouts on specific days and at specific times.
Ronald Lowry had previously injured Richelle Lowry’s hand on a trip to Hawaii and had been seen throwing “scary” tantrums, Richelle Lowry’s associates told investigators, the indictment stated.
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He repeatedly made statements after her death, including “If she used a gun, I’m going to jail”, “I’m going down for this” and “I am going to jail”, the sister told investigators.
The Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office initially ruled Richelle Lowry’s manner of death as “undetermined,” but later classified it as a homicide and reissued the death certificate, according to the indictment.
Ronald Lowry is next scheduled to appear in Arapahoe County District Court on Thursday for a status conference, according to court records. As of Tuesday, he was being held without bail.
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