Cheating Wife Wanted Her Husband Dead — and Her Lover Was a Convicted Killer. A Court Just Ruled on Her Fate

A female serving situation clip successful Indiana for plotting her husband’s execution — allegedly pinch a convicted slayer pinch whom she was having an matter — has been denied an appeal.

The section Evansville Courier & Press newspaper reported that Elizabeth Fox-Doerr had her conspiracy to perpetrate execution complaint upheld earlier this period by nan Indiana Court of Appeals. According to nan outlet, Fox-Doerr’s defense attorneys had based on for her merchandise based connected nan truth constabulary ne'er recovered grounds of a written aliases verbal statement betwixt her and her person Larry Ali Richmond Sr., who is accused of shooting and sidesplitting her hubby Robert F. Doerr II successful 2019.

Robert was a 28-year seasoned pinch nan Evansville Fire Department and had conscionable gotten location from a 12-hour other displacement erstwhile Richmond Sr. allegedly approached him successful nan Doerrs’ driveway and allegedly fatally changeable him, authorities said, PEOPLE antecedently reported.

Police alleged astatine nan clip they connected Richmond Sr. to nan execution lawsuit early connected aft his boy told investigators his begetter had bragged astir nan murder. Richmond Sr. had been released from situation nan twelvemonth anterior aft serving 22 years for a abstracted murder, PEOPLE reported.

Investigators began to look into Fox-Doerr’s engagement successful her husband’s decease aft discovering she had deleted an outgoing telephone to Richmond Sr. minutes earlier calling 911 to study uncovering her hubby had been changeable 3 times successful nan couple’s driveway.

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She was sentenced to 90 years successful situation past twelvemonth for her domiciled successful nan conspiracy to execution Robert, according to section WEVV, WFIE, and nan Courier & Press. The determination earlier this period to uphold nan condemnation was unanimous among a three-judge panel, according to nan newspaper, which reported that Fox-Doerr’s defense attorneys based on nan only grounds tying her to Richmond Sr. was nan erased telephone call.

"The grounds supports nan conclusion that Richmond and Fox-Doerr had conspired to termination Robert (Doerr)," Judge Cale J. Bradford wrote astir nan panel’s decision. "In challenging nan sufficiency of nan evidence, Fox-Doerr efficaciously requests this tribunal to reweigh nan evidence, which we will not do."

Afterwards, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers celebrated nan upheld conviction, according to the Courier & Press. "We are very happy successful nan court's swift ruling,” Moers said, adding, “This determination intends that nan family and friends of Robert Doerr tin remainder easy that justness was served.”

Richmond Sr. is scheduled to spell connected proceedings successful December, according to nan Courier & Press. He has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of execution and conspiracy to perpetrate murder.