Murder in the Family

On the Sunday evening of the 7th February 1999, Colman Bowers entered a bedroom in his family home in California and stabbed his wife Georgina to death. In the summer of 2000, after a six-week trial, he was found guilty of first-degree murder by a Californian jury. moved in 1990 from Ireland, then a country in recession, to Santa Clara, California, with hopes for a better life. As Colman pursued a career in electronics and frequented the gambling meccas of Las Vegas and Reno, Georgina longed to return with her family to live again in Ireland. personal perspective - that of Colman's younger brother. Fergal Bowers recounts Colman's early experiences, and the life of the family in Ireland and California. He chronicles the events leading up to the trial and the jury's decision that Colman should spend 25 years in a federal prison.