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Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie appeared to be heavily pregnant before she was mysteriously found dead this week at her Florida home, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned.
The former track and field world champion also had a long history of erratic and troubling behavior, according to friends and neighbors living beside her in Winter Garden, a smart Orlando suburb.
One recalled encountering 32-year-old Bowie in the street clutching a knife and screaming at a boyfriend.
In another unsettling incident, the celebrated sprinter – who won gold in the women's 4 x 100m relay at the 2016 Olympic Games – is said to have pelted eggs at the house opposite.
Olympic track and field star Tori Bowie, 32, who last competed on the world stage at the 2019 World Championships held in Qatar, was found dead at her Florida home on Tuesday
Neighbors say Bowie, who earned gold medals at the 2016 Olympic games, had appeared to be 'seven to eight-months' pregnant' before her unexpected death
Police were called to perform a welfare check at her home in Winter Garden, Florida earlier this week, when they discovered her body. No further details about the cause and manner of death have been released
At least two neighbors separately told DailyMail.com that Bowie appeared to be around seven or eight months pregnant when Orange County deputies carried out a welfare check at 1pm Tuesday and found her body.
'She was a thin woman and it looked like she had half a basketball under her shirt,' said one.
Investigators have ruled out foul play but are yet to release a cause of death.
'I came out of my house one time, and she was standing there in the street clutching a knife and shouting at a man,' recalled next-door neighbor Zehra Ugurlu, 52.
'A family friend of mine managed to talk to her and calm her down but it was scary, it made my daughters uncomfortable.
'Her life was erratic and unhealthy but I'm very sorry about what happened to her. She was so young. Why didn't her friends help her?'
Bowie won a bronze medal in the 200m in the Rio 2016 Olympic games – her only career medal in that event
Bowie's $500,000 home had been on the verge of being repossessed over the past two years because she owed more than $22,000 to her homeowners' association, according to court filings seen by DailyMail.com.
The garage door had been left wide open for the past three months and the front door and windows were frequently left ajar, prompting locals to wonder whether the two-bed property had been taken over by squatters.
Drying laundry was sometimes seen draped over the front balcony railing.
'We've heard shouting and screaming, loud music in the middle of the night. But what shocked me was that she appeared to have gotten much better lately,' said another neighbor and friend, who declined to be named.
'Having a baby seemed like it had made her happier. That's what makes it so sad – we are talking about two lost lives.
'It goes to show that you can have fame, success, everything in the world but it won't fix what's going wrong on the inside. She had personal demons but she was a good person.'
Bowie's $500,000 home had been on the verge of being repossessed over the past two years because she owed more than $22,000 to her homeowners' association, according to court filings seen by DailyMail.com
As seen in DailyMail.com photos, her garage door had been left wide open for the past three months
The garage, front door and windows were frequently left ajar, prompting locals to wonder whether the property had been taken over by squatters
Orange County Court Records reveal Bowie, a standout track star and two-time NCAA long-jump champion at the University of Southern Mississippi, had chalked up 16 traffic infractions since 2019.
The Overlook at Hamlin Homeowners Association sued Bowie and an 'unnamed spouse' in April 2021 for non-payment of assessments on her property, which she bought for $299,000 in March 2017.
It was scheduled for foreclosure in 2022 but the auction was cancelled and the case was voluntarily dismissed last July.
Bowie last competed on the world stage in 2019 at the Qatar World Championships but has spent the
