By Roberto Bustamante
Jun 19, 2024, 1:45 PM EDT
A judge sentenced Elizabeth Fox-Doerr to serve 90 years in an Indiana prison, for the 2019 murder of her husband, the veteran Evansville firefighter, Robert F. Doerr II.
Vanderburgh County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Pigman, who presided over Fox-Doerr’s trial in May, handed down the ruling and declared that the 52-year-old defendant would serve consecutive, decades-long sentences.
This came as a relief to Doerr’s family, friends and colleagues, who had fought for years to have his attackers brought to justice.
During the trial in May, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers told jurors that Fox-Doerr He recruited his “lover,” Larry Richmond Sr., 45, to carry out the murder. shot by her husband, in February 2019.
Evansville police determined she told her lover when her husband would return from the fire station, Indiana court records show.
Firefighter Robert “Robbie” Doerr was shot to death in his Indiana home in 2019. His wife, Elizabeth “Becky” Fox-Doerr, and her alleged lover Larry Richmond Sr., who is Becky’s sister’s boyfriend, are accused of Robbie’s murder.# CourtTV – IN v Elizabeth Doerr ⚖️ pic.twitter.com/36s42hZTHQ
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The victim was found dead in the entrance of his house. The police said that Richmond shot Doerr at least three times when the firefighter exited his truck after working a 12-hour shift, according to probable cause affidavits obtained by Courier & Press.
For aiding, inducing or causing murder, a Level 1 felony, Pigman sentenced Fox-Doerr to 60 years in prison. For conspiracy to commit murder, also a Level 1 felony, the judge sentenced her to 30 years in prison.
Since the court considered the two crimes to be separate acts, the sentences will be served one after the other.
Fox-Doerr’s lead defense attorney told Pigman that, given his client’s age, any sentence would be “effectively a life sentence“.
Richmond Sr., who was convicted of an earlier murder and released shortly before Doerr’s murder, is accused of firing the fatal shots. According to court records, he pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He is scheduled to appear before a jury in November.
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