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

A woman serving prison time in Indiana for plotting her husband’s murder — allegedly with a convicted killer with whom she was having an affair — has been denied an appeal.

The local Evansville Courier & Press newspaper reported that Elizabeth Fox-Doerr had her conspiracy to commit murder charge upheld earlier this month by the Indiana Court of Appeals. According to the outlet, Fox-Doerr’s defense attorneys had argued for her release based on the fact police never found evidence of a written or verbal agreement between her and her lover Larry Ali Richmond Sr., who is accused of shooting and killing her husband Robert F. Doerr II in 2019.

Robert was a 28-year veteran with the Evansville Fire Department and had just gotten home from a 12-hour extra shift when Richmond Sr. allegedly approached him in the Doerrs’ driveway and allegedly fatally shot him, authorities said, PEOPLE previously reported.

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Police alleged at the time they connected Richmond Sr. to the murder case early on after his son told investigators his father had bragged about the murder. Richmond Sr. had been released from prison the year prior after serving 22 years for a separate murder, PEOPLE reported.

Investigators began to look into Fox-Doerr’s involvement in her husband’s death after discovering she had deleted an outgoing call to Richmond Sr. minutes before calling 911 to report finding her husband had been shot three times in the couple’s driveway.

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She was sentenced to 90 years in prison last year for her role in the conspiracy to murder Robert, according to local WEVV, WFIE, and the Courier & Press. The decision earlier this month to uphold the conviction was unanimous among a three-judge panel, according to the newspaper, which reported that Fox-Doerr’s defense attorneys argued the only evidence tying her to Richmond Sr. was the erased phone call.

“The evidence supports the inference that Richmond and Fox-Doerr had conspired to kill Robert (Doerr),” Judge Cale J. Bradford wrote about the panel’s decision. “In challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, Fox-Doerr effectively requests this court to reweigh the evidence, which we will not do.”

Afterwards, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers celebrated the upheld conviction, according to the Courier & Press. “We are very happy in the court’s swift ruling,” Moers said, adding, “This decision means that the family and friends of Robert Doerr can rest easy that justice was served.”

Richmond Sr. is scheduled to go on trial in December, according to the Courier & Press. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.