09-07-2025
Cybersecurity engineer who injected his dying fiancé with meth to 'balance her out' after a heroin overdose goes MIA after cutting off his ankle monitor
An I.T. worker who injected his dying girlfriend with meth to 'save her' from a heroin overdose instead of paying $800 for an ambulance has gone on the run.
Amy Bowden, 26, was found dead at her Redwood Park home in Adelaide 's north-east on February 8, 2024.
Ethan Ross, now 29, pleaded guilty to one count of supplying/administering a controlled drug, namely methamphetamine, earlier this year.
He was released on home detention bail to a Salisbury address in January.
Ms Bowden's parents received an email on Tuesday informing them Mr Ross had fled his bail address.
The Victim Support Unit of the Department for Correctional Services told Ms Bowden's mother, Michelle Sposito, her daughter's ex-boyfriend had cut off his ankle monitor, which had been used to track him after his release on bail.
'Please be advised that Ethan Ross has removed his electronic monitoring device and his location is unknown,' the email, seen by The Advertiser, said.
'We will advise you when we hear of further updates.'
Ms Sposito said she and her husband Bryan Bowden are frustrated that they were only told about Mr Ross going on the run days after he cut off his ankle monitor on Friday.
'What more can we take? We have no idea where he is or what he's capable of doing,' she said.
'Now he's on the run. It was hard enough hearing he'd even been released on bail in the first place but now this? It's only adding to our anxiety.'
Mr Ross disappeared just days after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching his bail conditions in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court.
It's not clear what those breaches were, but for each count he was released without further penalty and ordered to pay court costs and the victims of crime levy.
He was then released back onto home detention bail on Thursday.
A day later he removed his ankle monitor and went on the run.
After Ms Bowden's death, it was revealed her boyfriend injected her with methamphetamine after she overdosed on heroin to 'balance her out'.
Ross (left), now 29, pleaded guilty to one count of supplying/administering a controlled drug, following his girlfriend's (right) death
Last year, the court heard that Mr Ross messaged a drug dealer to drop off meth after Ms Bowden overdosed on heroin.
'On the afternoon of the 7th of February, he messaged a person asking for meth so he could 'shoot her with it' and 'pick her up',' prosecutors told the court.
'He makes references to the deceased taking smack, and reversing a downer with an upper. He asked for a point of meth.'
Originally from Victoria, Ms Bowden had recently moved to Adelaide from Melbourne, where she was studying pharmaceutical sciences at RMIT University.
She was about to start the third year of her degree in biochemistry and pharmacology.
