A North Dakota woman poisoned her boyfriend after learning he planned to dump her — because he had inherited $30 million hours earlier, police said.
Ina Thea Kenoyer, 47, was charged Monday with the Sept. 5 slaying of Steven Edward Riley Jr., 51, in what police said was a gruesome act motivated by a “financial motive.”
“This case is very complex,” said Commander of the Investigation Capt. Dale Plessas of the Minot Police Department.
Riley was ill when she met with her attorney on Sept. 3 to collect a large inheritance, witnesses told investigators, according to police records.
Kenoyer didn’t call 911 until the next day — when paramedics arrived to find Riley unresponsive at her Minot home.
He died in hospital the next day.
An autopsy determined she was killed after swallowing antifreeze, which police allege was fed to her by Kenoyer.
The accused killer proclaimed his innocence in a series of nonsensical Facebook posts in the days before his arrest, claiming Riley had committed suicide.
“To Shafer who almost hit me, that’s unmarried, hello hunny, I wish I was looking for someone but no, I’m a ladies’ man, a kind person, and Steve Riley is the only man I want,” she said in a post . three days before he was charged with murder.
Ina Thea Kenoyer allegedly gave her boyfriend antifreeze after learning he was breaking up with her. Minot Police Department Kenoyer told investigators she was entitled to the $30 million fortune because she was Riley’s wife-in-law. Minot Police Department
Kenoyer told investigators he planned to split Riley’s impressive estate, estimated at about $30 million, with his son, records show.
He claimed he was entitled to the fortune because of his wife-in-law — North Dakota, however, does not recognize such a relationship.
Additionally, Riley had revealed plans to end the romance shortly after receiving the large sum, leading investigators to theorize she poisoned him to obtain the treasure.
An autopsy determined Steven Edward Riley Jr. was killed by swallowing antifreeze. Steven Riley/Facebook
“Rest dad… I think he’s the one how everything turned out, but I wish we made plans to see each other sooner,” grieving son Riley wrote on Facebook.
“May he get what he deserves for taking you from this world.”
Kenoyer faces AA felony murder, North Dakota’s most serious manslaughter charge.
He is being held without bond at the Ward County Detention Center and is representing himself, according to court records.
Kenoyer told investigators he was entitled to Riley’s fortune as his wife-in-law.Steven Riley/Facebook
The alleged murders are the latest in a string of domestic poisonings across the country by scorned partners hoping to reap their victims’ fortunes.
Last week, a poison expert and former Mayo Clinic doctor was accused of poisoning his wife amid domestic difficulties – allegedly trying to immediately cremate her body while planning to pay off a $500,000 life insurance policy.
Utah mother Kouri Richins is still awaiting trial for allegedly injecting her husband with a fatal fentanyl-laced Moscow donkey a day before foreclosing on a $2 million mansion she hoped to flip that he refused to pay for.
With Postal wire
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