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A gunman shoots a hero fireman dead in his own driveway. Police focus their investigation on the unusual firearm used to commit the crime and an odd trail of clues left behind by the victim himself.
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00:10He was gunned down in his own driveway, execution style.
00:15This was no accident.
00:17What was the extent of his injuries?
00:19He had a gunshot wound on his back and shoulder
00:22and gunshot wound to the head.
00:25People just couldn't wrap their minds around
00:27why somebody would want a firefighter dead.
00:30Robbie! Robbie!
00:35I dropped to my knees.
00:37I lost my best friend.
00:38My world had shattered.
00:41Sorry.
00:43Total shock.
00:44The anger didn't come for a few days.
00:47That anger will eat at me the rest of my life.
00:54Ballistics experts determined that this murder weapon
00:56shot two kinds of projectiles.
01:00Definitely sent a chill down my spine.
01:02There's one gun that can do that.
01:04It's a Taurus judge.
01:05A Taurus judge revolver had been stolen from an Evansville pawn shop.
01:10This is someone who really had this calculated down to every last detail.
01:15How many levels of betrayal are there in this story?
01:20It's almost like an onion.
01:22You keep peeling back the layers and there's more betrayal.
01:48It's an economic hub that still feels like a small town.
01:52So it's not surprising that this tight-knit community values its local heroes, and that the violent murder of firefighter
02:01Robert Doerr shook everyone it touched to their core.
02:05That pain would only deepen as the disturbing details of how the savage attack unfolded came to light.
02:13And it left many wondering just how well they knew their neighbors.
02:23February 26th, 2019.
02:26It was just after 7 on a cold Tuesday night when the Evansville police got a call from a terrified
02:34Becky Doerr.
02:36My evidence just got shot. Rob! Rob!
02:40Ma'am, I need you to listen to me, okay, ma'am? I need you to listen to me. I
02:43need you to listen to me.
02:43I don't know. I just heard of the question popping.
02:47As ambulances raced to her home, first responders desperately tried to get more details.
02:55Where was your shot at?
02:57Ma'am, I don't know. It's dark. All I see is blood on the ground.
03:00When did that happen, ma'am?
03:02Just a few minutes ago, I heard popping came out. I saw my husband just laying there. Oh, my God.
03:07Please hurry.
03:12Officers arrived at the scene, and they were stunned by what they saw.
03:17I'm up at the intersection of Colorado and Oakley.
03:20Not only had the victim been shot multiple times, but he was a friend.
03:27Yeah, his name is Robert Doerr. He's a firefighter.
03:3151-year-old Robert Doerr, a longtime member of the local fire department.
03:37At what point did it become clear that it was a firefighter?
03:42When the fire station showed up, they immediately knew who he was.
03:47I didn't realize who it is.
03:50Body camera footage in this particular case is really emotional because they're working on their friend.
03:55He's starting compressions now. Stay with me. Stay with me.
03:59Describe the effort to save his life.
04:02The first responders are giving it their all.
04:06Robby! Robby!
04:07It was traumatic for them as they realized that they were not going to be able to save him.
04:12Dammit!
04:13Oh, God, no.
04:15No.
04:15Dammit!
04:20WEHT anchor Brandon Bartlett was just up the street watching emergency workers arrive.
04:27Even from a distance, he could sense the wave of sadness.
04:32First responders did not know what they were walking into.
04:35This is a small town.
04:37They arrive there and see this man lying on the ground.
04:40They rush over to him and then realize, wait, this is Robby.
04:43This is one of our own.
04:45And the magnitude of the moment really hit home after Robert Doerr was officially declared dead in his driveway.
04:55I can't imagine what it was like for them.
04:57I can still see it in my head to this day.
05:05A local legend had been murdered.
05:11His co-workers loved him.
05:14He was larger than life.
05:16Several firefighters actually led a procession of Robby's body from the scene to the coroner's office.
05:25But the homicide detectives who stayed behind had to put their emotions aside and focus on doing their jobs.
05:34What were some of the first steps that investigators on the scene took?
05:39Everyone's wondering what happened.
05:41They're trying to figure out why is this firefighter laying in his driveway with a gunshot wound.
05:46There was a theory right from the beginning was this road rage.
05:49Did someone follow him home?
05:52On the surface, there was evidence that supported that theory.
05:59Robby had been just steps from his truck when he was hit with a hail of gunfire.
06:06What was the extent of his injuries?
06:09He had a through-and-through gunshot wound on his back and shoulder.
06:13And then he also had a gunshot wound to the head.
06:20Robert's wife, Becky, was certain the attack had begun seconds after her husband had arrived home.
06:27What did she tell investigators?
06:29She really didn't have much information to give them.
06:32She was making dinner and heard him pull up in the driveway and then heard popping sounds.
06:37Becky said, I heard three to four shots outside.
06:43Did she see the shooter?
06:45She did not.
06:47Could investigators find any witnesses?
06:50Nobody saw the killer and nobody saw the shooting.
06:54And no one had even seen nor heard a car fleeing the crime scene.
07:00It was very dark that night.
07:02This was definitely done in the cover of darkness.
07:08Crime scene analysts scoured the area looking for any evidence the shooter may have left behind.
07:15But all they found was the bag Robert carried his lunch in.
07:21Then officers made a critical discovery.
07:25They're canvassing the area, seeing if there's any witnesses.
07:27They're knocking on neighbors' doors.
07:29And they did notice across the street there was bullet holes.
07:34One through an awning.
07:35And then there was one left inside of the wood of one of the homes.
07:40Investigators were stunned.
07:41The bullet damage meant that the shots had come from the opposite direction they had originally thought.
07:49That was very helpful to investigators because with the bullets at homes across the street,
07:54they knew that they were traveling from the direction of Robbie Doerr's house.
08:01That discovery eliminated the possibility of a road rage incident.
08:06Because of the trajectory of the bullets, the road rage incident wouldn't make any sense.
08:11Whoever shot those particular bullets would have had to be standing directly across from those homes.
08:18In fact, the ballistics team now believed that the door's driveway was the shooter's likely position.
08:27Investigators noted an area of disturbed dust on the side of Robert's truck
08:31that helped them piece together the terrifying chain of events.
08:36Walk me through what you think happened after he got out of his truck.
08:39I think he sees the shooter in the driveway.
08:42Gets out of his truck.
08:44He's probably wondering, why is this person standing in my driveway?
08:48He sees the firearm.
08:50As Robert tried to take cover, he bumped into his truck, leaving the brush mark in the dust.
08:58The shots start.
09:01He drops his lunch sack.
09:03As he realizes what's happening, I think he kind of turned against his truck,
09:07tried to run away, but didn't make it very far.
09:10He was shot in the back of the head.
09:13The details changed the direction of the investigation.
09:16It now appeared that the shooting was not a random act of violence.
09:23Robert had been murdered during a targeted attack.
09:29That must have made his murder even more unthinkable.
09:36Yeah, the fact that this is a truly innocent victim is ambushed in his own driveway,
09:42it was really just unthinkable.
09:45People just couldn't wrap their minds around why somebody would want a firefighter dead.
09:50And that question was about to become even harder to answer,
09:54as police discovered a flurry of clues that seemed to point in every direction.
10:13As investigators continued to collect evidence at the murder scene,
10:19Robert Doerr's daughter Lindsay got the call that would change her life forever.
10:30How did you get the news that tragedy had struck?
10:34Getting a phone call, and he said, Lindsay, Dad's dead.
10:41And I was like, what?
10:43All I noticed, he had been shot.
10:45My husband took the phone from me, and we rushed to his house.
10:52When Lindsay arrived at the crime scene, she was still in a fog.
10:58We had to park down the street, and all I kept saying was,
11:00I need to be with my dad.
11:01And I got maneuvered into the house, and I just, I dropped to my knees.
11:06I realized I lost my best friend.
11:10My world had shattered.
11:12Sorry.
11:18Emergency workers managed to shield the young woman from seeing the bloody crime scene.
11:24But police had some difficult questions for loved ones about a potential motive for the murder.
11:31Could you think of any reason why anyone would hurt your father?
11:36No.
11:36I had no idea why anybody would want to hurt him.
11:38He would do anything for anyone.
11:41He was a great guy.
11:43He would give you the shirt off his back, the last dollar in his pocket.
11:48Robbie had no enemies in this world.
11:51He aimed to please everybody.
11:58Robert was a role model and a hero in the community.
12:03He had worked at the Evansville Fire Department for 28 years.
12:07He was a guy that, when he went to a scene, he would rush into a building.
12:13He would do whatever necessary to rescue anyone.
12:18No one could understand why anyone would want him dead.
12:25Robert Doerr and his second wife, Becky, lived a quiet life.
12:30He was a doting father to his only daughter, Lindsay.
12:34And she made him a grandfather shortly before his death.
12:39What was your dad like as a father?
12:41He was my best friend.
12:43Someone I called when I needed anything.
12:45He had the funniest personality.
12:48He was a jokester.
12:49He was never afraid of anything.
12:50Where was he in his life when this tragedy hit?
12:53He had just gotten married.
12:55He loved her.
12:56I know that he felt like he had no care in the world.
13:05The picture Robert's family painted of a hardworking community pillar
13:10offered few leads for police to follow.
13:15But his autopsy did provide one.
13:18The report revealed that two different types of ammunition
13:22had been used in the murder.
13:24Robert Doerr was killed with both .410 shotgun ammunition
13:29as well as .45 long-hole ammunition.
13:33We did have some fragments of bullets and shotgun shell wadding.
13:39The clue was puzzling.
13:43Was there any belief that Robert Doerr could have been shot
13:47by two different assailants?
13:49It would be natural to assume that when they're investigating something,
13:52it always starts out with a really broad brush.
13:55You can even have one shooter use two different firearms.
14:01But after careful analysis of the ammunition,
14:05the ballistics team posed a different idea.
14:09We had a great ballistics expert from the Indiana State Police
14:12that took a look.
14:13She was able to determine that this particular murder weapon
14:16shot two kinds of projectiles.
14:19There's one gun on the market that can do that,
14:21and that's a Taurus Judge.
14:25Taurus Judge is a revolver-style pistol.
14:28It shoots a .410 shotgun shell as well as a .45 long-hole.
14:32That really helped us narrow down the murder weapon in this case.
14:38Police went to work trying to connect the unusual-style pistol to an owner.
14:45How did knowing what weapon was used accelerate the investigation?
14:50They were looking to see if there was any reported missing firearms,
14:54and in fact, a Taurus Judge was reported stolen from a pawn shop.
14:59How surprised were they that one of these guns had recently been stolen?
15:04I think it was a big break in the case.
15:07They knew, and they got that information that they needed to follow up on it.
15:13Police became even more intrigued when they discovered
15:16that the pawn shop was located just a few miles away from the crime scene.
15:22They talked to the pawn shop owner and went from there.
15:27While police began seriously investigating the possible connections
15:32between the pawn shop robbery and Robert Doerr's murder,
15:36it was a deep dive into the victim's personal life
15:40that provided the next big break on the case.
15:56While investigators continued to piece together
15:59the odd clues found in the wake of Robert Doerr's murder,
16:04it was the firefighter himself
16:06that gave the investigation a new focus.
16:10A search of his personal items revealed an unsent note
16:15he had written to his wife, Becky.
16:17In it, Robert sounded deeply frustrated and vulnerable.
16:22He said he was someone who was really hardworking for his family,
16:26was doing everything he could to keep Becky happy,
16:30and it seemed that he felt he was putting a lot of work
16:34into the relationship, and she was not.
16:39How long had they been married?
16:42They were married not even a year before this happened.
16:46Most of the details in the letter
16:48were about the couple's financial struggles.
16:51But there was also a more troubling issue raised.
16:56He said he knew that she wasn't faithful to him.
17:00Robert feared that his wife was involved with another man.
17:06He wrote that ever since he came back into your life,
17:10we have been drifting apart.
17:13How did that information change the direction of the investigation?
17:17It just tipped investigators off
17:19that potentially there were some marital issues with infidelity,
17:23but no one was specifically named in the letter.
17:26Still, that possibility raised a major red flag.
17:31Police believed if Becky Doerr was having an affair,
17:35her lover was a prime suspect in her husband's murder.
17:40It's an obvious other person.
17:43We're looking for a motive who would do this,
17:45and there was no motive for anyone else
17:47to do something like this to Robert Doerr.
17:57Investigators spoke with Robert's co-worker, Larry Wilt,
18:01who confirmed that his best friend
18:03was worried about his marriage.
18:06Did he believe that Becky loved him?
18:09I think he hoped more than believed.
18:12Robbie was very insecure
18:13because he'd been cheated on several times
18:15before with previous relationships.
18:16Is it true he suspected that Becky wasn't faithful to him?
18:21He had serious questions about it,
18:23and I believe he knew more
18:24than he was letting anybody else know.
18:26Did he ever confront her?
18:28That I can't answer.
18:29I don't know if he confronted her or not.
18:36But police were ready to ask Becky
18:39about the problems in the couple's marriage.
18:43They did end up interviewing her at length.
18:46We know that she was inside the home
18:48when this happened,
18:49so it wasn't suspected that she was the shooter,
18:51but they were trying to figure out any possible motive.
18:55Becky admitted that she and Robert
18:58often argued about money,
19:00but denied she was unfaithful to him.
19:05Investigators remained skeptical.
19:09Police searched her phone.
19:11What did they find out?
19:12The police did take her phone,
19:13and they could see every text message that you send
19:16and every call that you make.
19:18The search revealed nothing
19:20that indicated that Becky had been seeing another man.
19:24Was there anything else you got off her phone?
19:27No, nothing of evidential value.
19:30The once-promising lead appeared to be a dead end.
19:38And while investigators were struggling to find a new one,
19:43Lindsay and the city of Evansville wanted answers.
19:46So far, all they had were whispers and innuendo.
19:54We were hearing a lot of different things.
19:57The rumors spread like wildfire within the community.
20:00A lot of speculation.
20:02People just couldn't imagine
20:03why something like this would happen to somebody so good.
20:07It was like torture.
20:10Someone just took my dad away from me for the rest of my life.
20:13It wasn't fair.
20:16And as the day slipped by without a suspect,
20:20the pressure on police continued to mount.
20:24The community was up in arms over this.
20:27A lot of people were pushing for answers to the case.
20:31It's very frustrating for families to sit and watch
20:34as evidence doesn't come together.
20:36Police were working around the clock
20:38to connect the complex set of clues.
20:41And those pieces were about to come together
20:44in a way no one expected.
21:01Detectives trying to solve the murder of Robert Doerr
21:04were looking for a clue
21:06that would jumpstart the investigation.
21:10And for those that love the local hero,
21:13it was a time of confusion and pain.
21:17Getting over the initial shock took a while.
21:20The anger part didn't come for a few days.
21:23That anger will never go away.
21:25That anger will eat at me the rest of my life.
21:27But Larry and his fellow firefighters
21:29concentrated on supporting Robert's daughter, Lindsay,
21:33as she struggled with her deep sense of loss.
21:37The fire department really rallied around Lindsay.
21:41You become a family.
21:42And that's the way they've treated Lindsay.
21:45And that'll never change.
21:49How did you work through your grief?
21:51I still struggle with it.
21:53I had nightmares.
21:55I was terrified to do anything.
21:56Because I don't know why my dad got shot.
22:01I was terrified to leave my house.
22:09But despite those fears, Lindsay was prepared to do whatever it took to see her father's killer brought to justice.
22:22How much did investigators end up telling you about the details of the case?
22:27They told me as much as they could, which wasn't a lot.
22:30They don't want to get your hopes up.
22:32They don't want to say, hey, we have a lead, and then be like, well, that lead failed.
22:41Unbeknownst to Lindsay, investigators were making progress.
22:46The advance came with a major break in another case they believe to be connected to Robert's murder.
22:53One involving a tourist judge pistol stolen from a nearby pawn shop.
23:01They followed up with the owner of that pawn shop and tied that theft to a person by the name
23:08of Larry Richmond, Jr.
23:09Did Larry Richmond, Jr. admit that he had stolen the weapon?
23:13Yes.
23:14He ended up pleading guilty to stealing that firearm.
23:18Police were surprised that Richmond, Jr., a 23-year-old with no criminal history, was involved in the theft.
23:26And their suspect seemed stunned that police were asking him about the attack on Robert Doerr.
23:33He was pretty disturbed that this potential murder weapon was now being tied back to him.
23:39Where did the investigation go from there?
23:41He was very cooperative in giving information on his stealing of this firearm from the pawn shop.
23:50In fact, Richmond, Jr. told police a fascinating story about how he became involved in the crime.
23:59Why did he say he stole the gun?
24:01He stole it for his father, Larry Richmond, Sr.
24:04His father was not eligible to own a firearm.
24:08So he told police that his father asked him to steal that gun because he couldn't legally own one himself.
24:17Yes.
24:17He said his father expressed he wanted a firearm for personal protection.
24:21Investigators believe that Richmond, Jr. was telling them the truth.
24:25But the reason his father couldn't own a firearm was alarming.
24:32What was Larry Richmond, Sr.'s criminal record?
24:36Larry Richmond, Sr. was found guilty of murder in 1996.
24:43He had spent a number of years in prison and was out just shortly before this happened.
24:52A convicted killer illegally in the possession of the unusual type of pistol that killed Robert Doerr seemed like more
25:00than just a coincidence.
25:04Still, investigators wanted to have stronger evidence when they confronted the hardened criminal.
25:12And while police searched for something to link him to the murder, another critical clue came on their radar during
25:20a routine follow-up on Becky Doerr's cell phone data.
25:26What did they find out?
25:27So there's what's on your phone, which we can see.
25:29But they also ordered her cell phone records from her company.
25:36Detectives expected the two sets of call logs to be identical, but they weren't.
25:43And one of the detectives realized that she had deleted a call.
25:49What stood out about the fact that she deleted that one call?
25:53Detectives had asked her at length, who did you talk to on this night?
25:56She never mentions that phone call.
25:59Detective suspicions were raised even further when they looked at when the deleted call had been made.
26:07Less than 30 minutes before Robert's murder.
26:11When confronted with it, they were asking her, okay, on the night of the murder for 4 minutes and 18
26:17seconds,
26:18who's this phone number belong to?
26:20Becky claimed she didn't remember the call.
26:24She mentions every other detail about that night.
26:27So things are not adding up at this point.
26:35And police believe they knew why Becky wasn't telling them the truth.
26:41They had already obtained the name of the man who owned the cell phone.
26:46It is Larry Richman Sr.'s phone number.
26:51We know that she's been talking to him on the night of the murder.
26:57She at first denies that she knows him at all.
27:00And then she tells many lies.
27:05Suddenly, a grim picture was coming into focus.
27:09Larry Richman Sr. was now the prime suspect in Robert Doerr's murder.
27:16But there was still one question looming over the entire investigation.
27:23What made Richman Sr. want to shoot Robert Doerr in his driveway?
27:33And every potential answer to that question pointed in the same direction.
27:38Robert's wife, Becky Doerr.
27:41It's almost like an onion.
27:43You keep peeling back the layers and there's more betrayal.
27:59Investigators had found crucial links between an ex-con named Larry Richman Sr.
28:06and the murder of Robert Doerr.
28:08But the most shocking connections were about to be revealed.
28:13The first came when detectives pressed Robert's wife, Becky,
28:18about the mysterious deleted call on her cell phone.
28:24So who did you talk to five minutes before your husband was coming down on the driveway?
28:30She had some information that she wasn't giving to detectives.
28:34Becky, we know the answer.
28:36The deleted phone call came from a contact in Becky's phone as Larry Ali
28:42with a phone number that was known by police as belonging to Larry Richman Sr.
28:47Police wanted Becky to explain how she knew Richman.
28:51Her answer was stunning.
28:54When confronted with Larry Richman Sr.'s phone number, she says,
28:58well, that's my sister's fiancé.
29:00I don't know him really.
29:02Tell us the truth.
29:03I didn't know anything about that.
29:05Tell us the truth.
29:07Investigators continued to turn up the heat
29:10and found out that Becky and Robert Doerr both knew Larry Richman Sr. well.
29:17They've been out to eat together.
29:18They've spent holidays together.
29:20We have a photo of Becky Fox Doerr.
29:23Robbie Doerr is there.
29:25And so is Mandy, her sister, and Larry Richman Sr.
29:28So her story to investigators that she doesn't know him well at all was a lie.
29:38Police were now convinced the only reason Becky Doerr would try to mislead them
29:44was to hide her role in her husband's murder.
29:52Investigators believe the next conversation should be with Becky's sister.
29:58When police brought in Becky's sister, Mandy, for questioning,
30:01what was their plan to get out the truth?
30:05At this point, we know a lot of information,
30:07so we're bringing in witnesses to see what stories they're going to tell.
30:14What did Mandy reveal?
30:16She was not aware of much.
30:17She knows her fiancé is on parole for murder,
30:20but she didn't have any other knowledge as to anything else that had happened.
30:26Police switched gears.
30:28They asked Mandy where Richman was during the hours leading up to the attack.
30:33Her story was intriguing.
30:36The night of the murder, they got in an argument about his infidelity.
30:41And following those heated words about cheating,
30:45her fiancé stormed out of the house.
30:49He said he was going to go to his parents' house.
30:51They live close by.
30:52Police were puzzled.
30:55That timeline seemed to place Richman at his parents' home
31:00instead of the crime scene.
31:02But there was more to Mandy's account.
31:05She went by his parents' house and didn't see his vehicle.
31:09She drives around for a little bit, but she could not find him.
31:15In fact, it wasn't until 30 minutes after Robert Doerr was killed that Mandy finally ran into Richmond.
31:25Eventually, she meets up with him back at his parents' house where he's outside.
31:30Based on Mandy's story, her fiancé was unaccounted for at the time of the shooting.
31:39Police hoped that his cell phone data would pinpoint his location.
31:44But Richman Sr. refused to cooperate.
31:48Prosecutors then got a warrant that allowed them to crack his phone.
31:56We received Larry Richman Sr.'s phone, and we placed it on one of our extraction tools, which gave us full,
32:03unfeathered access to the phone.
32:06Once inside, digital forensic examiner John Carter began mining it for information.
32:13But at first, it seemed as if Richman was a step ahead of him.
32:17There was no record of the phone having been used prior to the day of the murder.
32:23If you were to look at this phone, it would literally look like the first phone call that he made
32:28was on February the 26th of 2019.
32:33He had deleted all call history, all text history, prior to the date of the shots fired.
32:45But there were things that Richman couldn't delete.
32:50What would you say was the first important evidence you found?
32:57Geographical location data that put Larry Richman Sr. at a gas station.
33:01A stone's throw from Robbie Dorr's residence about 30 minutes prior to the shooting.
33:08And then what happened in the next 30 minutes?
33:11It goes dead.
33:12And I don't mean that the battery died.
33:14It was purposely turned off.
33:17There's no signal coming in.
33:19There's no signal going out.
33:20Then miraculously, after the shot's fired, the phone turns back on.
33:25Why do you think Richman turned his phone off?
33:27I believe that Larry seriously thought that if he were to turn his phone off,
33:31that he would be incognito for those 30 or so minutes.
33:34And that we think he was always at the location where his phone went off and then back on.
33:40He actually gave us more information than he was trying to hide.
33:47That's because the gas station's security cameras told a different story.
33:52It showed Richman pulling in, leave, and then return a half hour later.
33:58And there was more data discovered inside the apps on Richman's phone.
34:05Investigators found evidence that he had been obsessively monitoring a police scanner.
34:10He was listening to it for the majority of the day when the murder occurred.
34:14What do you think he was listening for?
34:16Firefighters and police officers, when they clock in and clock out, they call into dispatch.
34:21I believe that he was listening for Robbie to sign off from work so that he would know
34:25when to look for Robbie at his house.
34:31That is so chilling.
34:34What went through your mind when you put these pieces together?
34:37This is someone who really thought that they had planned out all the steps
34:41and had this calculated down to every last detail,
34:45trying to ensure that all of his tracks were covered.
34:48And ultimately, the way that he went about doing it was his downfall.
34:54And more elements of the murder plot took shape
34:57when Richman's own son told police about a potential motive for the brutal attack,
35:04a secret romance between Becky Doerr and his father.
35:10His son had seen them kissing.
35:16While there was no proof of the affair on Richman Sr.'s phone,
35:21Becky Doerr provided a treasure trove of information.
35:27That allowed police to retrieve records that documented the affair had been going on for some time.
35:34They had talked since December.
35:36They're having some sort of relationship and she's concealing it all.
35:44Was Becky's sister Mandy aware
35:47that Becky had been seeing Larry Richman Sr.?
35:51No, Mandy is not aware of this at all.
35:53It was a shock to her.
35:55Detectives believe there was more than a sordid romance
35:58behind the deadly plot to kill Robert.
36:01Our theory is the motivation to do it was money.
36:04Elizabeth Fox Doerr, as a surviving spouse of a firefighter,
36:08stood to get 70% of his pension
36:10and an initial lump sum payout as well for his death.
36:15But it was another miscalculation.
36:18She thought she was the beneficiary on Robbie's insurance policies
36:21and she was also going to be the beneficiary of his pension.
36:25But Robbie had told me several times that that money was for Lindsay
36:29and was not going anywhere but to Lindsay.
36:34The evidence spelled out a dark, calculated plan
36:39filled with greed and lust.
36:42One that ultimately crumbled when it was exposed to the light.
36:47The technology tells the story of everything
36:50that Larry Richman Sr. did that night.
36:53We placed him at the scene of the crime
36:56right before it happened.
36:58We know he's talking to Elizabeth Fox Doerr,
37:01the wife of the victim.
37:03We have evidence that they're having this secret affair.
37:06We know that his son gave him a weapon
37:10that was exactly like the one used in this murder.
37:13We knew we had enough to make an arrest.
37:17In this particular case, it took lots of smaller pieces
37:21and seeing how they connected with one another
37:24to affirmatively go in and say
37:27that this is what we believed happened.
37:29Larry Richman Sr. and Elizabeth Fox Doerr
37:33were arrested and charged with murder
37:36and conspiracy to commit murder.
37:41Elizabeth was tried first.
37:46How concerned were you that this was a largely circumstantial case?
37:51Because those are very difficult to win.
37:53It's always a concern when you go to trial.
37:54And this trial was the first one
37:56that was televised from Vandenberg County.
37:58And so quite literally, the world was watching.
38:01The pressure was on.
38:02The defendant in this case, Elizabeth Fox Doerr,
38:06thought she could delete a phone call
38:07and get away with murder.
38:09But what she didn't count on
38:10was the Evansville Police Department.
38:12Have you ever been involved in any other murder case
38:16where you could vividly paint a picture
38:19about what unfolded?
38:22Nothing as involved as this.
38:23We're trying to paint that bigger picture for the jury,
38:26trying to get them to understand
38:27all of the little nuances.
38:30In this particular case,
38:32that was something that was very crucial.
38:34The phone belonging to Larry Richman Sr.
38:37contacted Elizabeth Fox Doerr's number 15 times.
38:43Robert's daughter, Lindsay,
38:45was in the courtroom listening to every word.
38:49What was the hardest part of the trial for you?
38:52They showed pictures.
38:56They played the interrogation video.
38:59And it just is thrown at you all at once.
39:03He was in love.
39:05And his love ended his life.
39:11Perhaps the most chilling evidence
39:13was surveillance video
39:15that showed Richman Sr. at the gas station
39:18shortly after the shooting.
39:21If you take a listen,
39:22you can hear sirens in the background
39:24as he enters the gas station at 7.12 p.m.,
39:26just minutes after the murder took place.
39:31After a week of emotional testimony,
39:34the case went to the jury.
39:36They hooked all the links together in the chain,
39:39and by the end of the trial,
39:40there wasn't any doubt
39:42that she was involved in it.
39:45Elizabeth Becky Doerr
39:47was found guilty
39:48and sentenced to 90 years.
39:54We finally knew exactly what happened,
39:57and 12 people found you guilty.
39:59You weren't supposed to show emotion,
40:02but I burst into tears.
40:09But nothing about the verdict
40:11can give back Robert's family and friends
40:14what they have lost.
40:16Robbie's still a huge part of my life.
40:18There's not a day that goes by
40:19that I don't think about him.
40:21These shirts were made
40:23after Robbie was murdered.
40:26It's got his badge number
40:28covered by the traditional
40:29mourning black band.
40:30There's hundreds of these
40:31running around Evansville.
40:33It's a fitting tribute
40:35to a fallen hero.
40:37Everything I do
40:39revolves around just
40:41making my dad proud.
40:43I miss him like crazy.
40:46He just wanted to be loved.
40:48That's all he wanted,
40:49and it's not fair.
40:55Lindsay and Robert's loved ones
40:57have another legal battle to face.
41:00Larry Richmond Sr.'s trial
41:01will keep you posted on the verdict.
41:04I'm Paula Zahn.
41:06Please join us again next time
41:08when we're back on the case.
41:10On the next
41:11On the case
41:13Have you ever heard
41:14a more callous murder?
41:17No.
41:18Inez woke up
41:19in a decrepit trailer
41:21feels a gunshot
41:23to her face.
41:24It's chilling.
41:26I just started banging the wall.
41:29It was just horrible.
41:30in love,
41:30are going to be able
41:30to find out
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