Dr. Insanity - Evil Wife Poisons Husband To Steal $37,000,000

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

When Ina Thea Kenoyer’s fiancé, Steve Riley, was set to inherit $37 million, their lives seemed about to change forever. But just hours before the payout, Steve mysteriously fell ill and d**d. What initially seemed like a tragic accident quickly unraveled into something far more sinister. Was Ina hiding something? And how did detectives uncover the shocking truth behind Steve’s death? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He gets his inheritance this afternoon. That's why we're moving. We're gonna bear all our bills off that we need to pay off and then take a long vacation. Less than 24 hours from this footage, Aina Thea Knoir's husband, Steve Riley, was life-lighted to the hospital due to a sudden sickness that immobilized his body.

Within an hour of being at the hospital, he would pass away. I thought everybody knew, I'm sorry. Oh, my God! What the cop doesn't realize at this time is that Ayna is a very good actor, and she knows far more about Steve's sickness than she leads on. You see, Steve was less than an hour away from cashing in a $37 million inheritance payment when he became fatally ill.

And as the multi-week investigation would progress, detectives would quickly discover that Steve's death was due to poisoning. Someone had killed him, and everyone close to Steve all had dire needs to claim his newfound fortune by any means necessary. It was like 20-something million. The best thing you can do is get on the plane and don't look back. Police department, it's the police department, it's not Chad.

This body cam was recorded the night before Steve Riley's death. Steve and Ina's drunken neighbor had been harassing them and other residents of the neighborhood, so Ina called 911 to de-escalate the situation. What makes this specific footage interesting is not the situation with their drunken neighbor, but rather what Ina would tell police after, her 37 million dollar inheritance fund that she's just hours of, away from cashing in. Sorry.

You thought it was Chad? Yeah. Who was Chad on your... He tried to kick in everybody's door. Who was he on her fight? He even busted in my light. Look at the garbage cabs. Who was your...

Who was you fighting with on her? Uh, my fiancé. He went for a walk, pull down. Who was your count's like? Steve Riley. Steve Riley? Yeah. Okay.

What's your name? I'm Enah. Is your fiance hurt at all? Uh, he got Gash of my forehead. Okay. You know, we just want to talk with him too, just make sure he's all right if possible. There's flood all the way over there.

So what actually happened tonight? What were they fighting over? Chad was kind of kicking the door. Just for no reason or just... Just drunk. He does that. Where do you think your fiance would have went so we could just get inside of the story? Oh, I don't know. So you got a phone on it? No. We don't have a phone until this afternoon.

But this is where Aina reveals something. she shouldn't have, their plans to pay off all of their bills, which had over the years been racking up. And she does this for one reason, to brag. He gets his inheritance this afternoon. That's why we're moving. We're going to bear all our bills off that we need to pay off. His lawyer gets here today at two. Okay. Just on the paperwork for his money. Okay. And then he's going to go pay that and his lawyer to pay the rest of his child's for, and then take a long vacation. According to Ina, Steve is set to receive an inheritance from his late uncle tomorrow,

which supposedly is enough money to turn their lives around completely. What police don't realize at this time is how enormous this inheritance sum really is. In 2016, Steve's friend had received a call from a man named Marcus Riley, who claimed to be Steve's long-lost uncle from Ireland. It explained that he finally wanted to get in touch with his nephew, Steve. After connecting with each other, Steve had learned he was in line to receive an inheritance upon his uncle's passing, which was a sum of over $17 million at the time. This was enough to permanently fix the financial struggles he and Ina had been dealing with. A couple of years later, four months prior to the footage you just watched,

Steve would learn of his uncle's passing from a British lawyer who had contacted him. Additionally, he would learn that his $17 million inheritance had grown to over $30 million due to his uncle's successful investments over the years. That's why Ina cannot hold herself from boasting to the police. Tomorrow, they plan to meet with their lawyer to officially sign the documents and claim the $30 million inheritance fund. The two planned to take the money and lived with Steve's long-lost family, family in Ireland, quote, living in the castles.

In less than 24 hours, Ina will be rich. So his officers lead for the night, Ina would make one final statement about how her life was about to change forever. If you want to step back inside and then if Steve shows back up, we're going to try to look for him to get his side of the story as well. But if Steve shows back up, if you just want to give us a call or have him give us a call, we'll talk to him then, okay? Yeah, he's going to stop by anyways, like I said.

Sounds good. I've only been able to put like $5 on his fines, but at least it was something. Okay. Sounds good. We're going to pay it all off all at once. Perfect. Thank you. Steve would return to his and Ina's apartment that night, and the two would patiently wait,

not being able to sleep, as they counted down the hours until they would receive their millions. The plan to receive the funds was simple. At 2 p.m., the group would go to the airport to meet their lawyer, who was flying in with their inheritance paperwork. Ina and Steve obliged and would arrive at the airport alongside their two friends, Billy and Wes, before patiently waiting. However, while they were waiting for the lawyer's arrival, Steve would become extremely sick. He would claim feeling drunk, even throwing up in the airport bathrooms.

His heart rate was rapidly increasing and his condition worsened to the point where Wes decided to take him home to help him treat his sickness. Ina would wait at the airport for the lawyer to arrive, however, he would never show up. And after a couple of hours, with no lawyer, no money, and a sick fiancé, she would return home as well. Everyone believed that Steve had suffered from a heat stroke as a result of working on his truck for hours that morning. But Steve's symptoms were far more fatal than the heat strokes he had received in the past. even experiencing fatal signs of kidney failure throughout the night. And in the morning, Steve would become completely unresponsive,

forcing Aina to call 911. 911. What? My husband's really sick. He got heat throat yesterday, and now he's not waking up. Come on, wake up. What's the phone number you're calling from? I don't have a phone number.

It's a phone that never got finished getting set up. Come on, babe! I've been trying everything. Ice, water. Okay, but he is breathing? Yes. He's snoring. He won't talk to me anymore. He won't look at me. He won't open his eyes.

Okay. I've got help on the line. Just keep an eye on his breathing, and if anything changes with his breathing, tell me immediately. Hello? Yeah. It's Officer Sullivan, mine on PD. Yeah, hang on. Inside the home, officers would find Steve fully unresponsive. They would drag him out of the house through piles of trash and filth.

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consciousness. This is Billy Burkehead, Steve and Ina's neighbor, and he was with Steve and Ina the entire day of his sudden sickness, even working on the truck with Steve and traveling with him to the airport. Billy simply refused to believe that Steve's death was caused by heatstroke, especially since Steve seemed perfectly fine all day until they reached the airport. Instead, Billy suspected something far more sinister and wanted to share his theory with a detective. So, the day after Steve's death, Billy would call officers back to apartment 912A to detail his side of the story. We think she poisoned me.

Oh, I'm almost sure she poisoned it. So what's your plan right now? We're making sure nothing goes. Because you know what they go jail as it does. How long are you going to stay here? Stay here until the son gets here. When's the son supposed to get here? I'm not dead!

I told you! Stop! He's dead. And he was poisoned. Billy's explanation for Steve's death is, well, horrifying. If Ina truly did poison Steve, then his symptoms would make sense, and would add up far more than the idea of him having a heat stroke. However, why would Ina want to poison her husband if they were about to live such a good life?

Well, Billy seems to have the exact answer to that question. We came to the other day, she threw all this stuff out, out of the yard. From his house? Yeah, and he'd come out and he was holding his head down. And then we're supposed to go up to the airport and meet this guy because he's supposed to get quite a bit of money. Come back, we had to help him out of the car, had to help him in the house. And everything was ran.

Billy come home and then the next morning and she's throwing all his stuff out. If she was supposed to call the ambulance, she never called him. Billy thinks that Ina was secretly planning to split with Steve after the inheritance was received, even going so far as to throw his belongings out of the house after they returned from the airport. Even worse is that Ina lied about getting help for Steve after they returned from the airport, pretending to take him to get treated when in reality they never left the house. Unfortunately, Ina overheard all of this talk and decided to give Billy a piece of her own mind. I'm taking off. I'm not worth him.

Stay here, stay here. Hey, stay here. I need to take a picture. Picture of what? Billy. Why is it? Why did it? Oh, you can sit over here.

Steve collapsed yesterday. Mm-hmm. Look to the hospital. I found out he was pointed. How'd you find that out? I thought you told me. I'm just telling your son, don't ever stop after that. They're nasty people.

They're nasty. Ina coincidentally seemed to put the blame on the neighbors, calling them evil people. It's become more clear that Steve's death was far more sinister than officers had first expected. officers had first expected. Officers now had a potential homicide case to investigate. But as they went to leave, one officer accidentally broke the news to Ina that her fiance had passed away. I thought everybody in doing, I'm sorry. Don't know.

Oh my god. I guess the son is on his way here. Okay? Apparently the son is on the way here. So. Ina's reaction to her husband's passing is one of the strangest I've ever seen. She starts bawling her eyes out, then suddenly jumps right back to her normal self, as if she hadn't even heard the terrible news to begin with.

It's becoming more and more clear that something is not adding up. Billy was not the only person to initially put the blame on Ina. In fact, he was only one of many who would come forward with their concerns. In fact, Billy's wife, Lynn, had stated that Ina had made horrifying statements in the past, alluding that if she was to ever kill her partner, she would poison him, using an anti-freeze. To add to the pile of already incriminating information, Steve would be tested for ethylene glycol in his bloodstream, a key ingredient in antifreeze. To nobody's surprise, the results show toxic levels of ethylene glycol in his system.

This information would serve as the catalyst for initiating a formal homicide investigation into the death of Steve Riley. Following the commencement of the investigation, a series of intensive interrogations would be conducted with all parties connected to the incident, including Ina, to ultimately solve Steve's murder. However, before that, Ina would launch a plan of her own. It must have been made apparent to her that she was in hot water, as the day after this encounter with the police,

she would call them back to Apartment 912A to explain theories of her own. Hi. Hi. Came up. Okay. What's going on? I don't know. We've been here.

He keeps trying to take Steve's truck. Where's the truck at? In the garage. Is this the paperwork on this there? No, no, no. This is a property that Steve was buying after his inheritance got here. I think he left it to his son, but I had to Google where to go to get his inheritance switched over to the people he left it to.

I don't know. Today he was supposed to meet his lawyer, apparently I thought it was he's true. Apparently he was poison. I'm fighting out with Anna Fries. Alright. And I don't know how to get a hold of the guy in London with an inheritance. He should be here in town. He never should have been to airport, of course.

Yeah. How to figure out why. Ina seems to conspire to the idea that Steve may have drawn to may have drank the antifreeze himself, or that someone may have poisoned him. However, despite all the suspicion being thrown her way, she can only stay on track for minutes before going back on tangents about her inheritance fund. It was clear at this point that somebody had poisoned Steve. The idea of this being self-inflicted was unlikely,

as Steve had a life-changing amount of money waiting for him and would have had to drink the antifreeze just hours before going to claim the cash. Clearly, Ina can be made out as the lead suspect due to the amount of fingers being pointed her way, but the other potential suspects should not be ruled out either. With this in mind, officers would bring their first suspect in for questioning, Rebecca. Rebecca was another neighbor of Ina and Steve's, who was very involved with the entire case so far, pitching her opinion to police whenever she could. Rebecca was brought in primarily to add to the pile of evidence to confront Ina with later. But as the interview would continue,

strange red flags would arise from Rebecca's odd personality. You guys know my daughter. Yeah, how's she doing? Yesterday, God works on Mr. Ruthways. She was arrested, released. She said, this is the demons that are in her, the spirits that follow her, was able to change her butt cheeks.

So maybe they'll stop following her now, she said. Oh, she's dead. Yeah, well, hopefully she missed hope she needs. I pray she does. Starting off a homicide interview, explaining how demons left your daughter's butt is an interesting way of proving your innocence. But the detective isn't here to judge, rather, to get to the bottom of Steve's death, so he'll ignore these strange remarks. I'm a nosey neighbor. It's good.

I like it. Well, I know what cause belong, what cause don't. Who lives in my neighborhood, who doesn't? So yes. That's good. We're investigating Steve's passing just because it sounds like maybe there's something suspicious about what I know. Whatever I know.

How long have Steve and Ena lived there that you know of? Approximately. Two years. Okay. How is there a relationship that you know? The first year was, Steve was looking great. doing great. The past year, I don't know if she suffers for mental illness at times, but her mental state went downhill the past year. When you lose weight, when you're not acting

right, shady stuff going on, you're not working, yes, he was, and it got worse the past couple months. It seems as though Steve's life wasn't as straightforward as initially thought, having drug issues, weight loss, and possibly depression. Whether or not Ina was a large contributor to these deteriorating issues is something they will soon learn, as this interview would become a pivotal piece of evidence, laying the groundwork to dismantle her defense entirely during the interrogation. You said it got worse the past couple months.

Using, you think, likely, is that theme like, whatever? Yes. Do you think she was using? Yeah. Okay. And alcohol used to. Okay. Yes.

Both of them with alcohol? Okay. So Steve had mentioned before, like in the past, about getting money. Yes. How many, like? Two million. The amount Steve had planned to receive was something he kept very secret. Often lying to people like Rebecca on how much he was actually getting.

As we'll soon find out, this number was much. much larger than two million. One of them. His uncle passed away. Um, yes. First, he said he was going to leave it to Ena, and then they were fighting. And a couple months later, he said he went back and changed the will.

He told me, he was like, don't tell Ena, but I changed it. This statement from Rebecca would explain what Ina was talking about last time she spoke to police, and how she was trying to switch the will over from Steve's son to herself. If Ina discovered his plan, it would have given her a strong incentive to do whatever it took to change the will back in her favor, possibly by any means necessary. Because it started five months and he told me, yeah, I got a will. I'm leaving everything to Ena if something happened. And then it seemed like two months after that, he's like, that can get nothing because she's a bitch.

Okay. So that was your thing. Yeah, that's how he, but yeah. Was he ever talking about leaving Ena? Yes. Okay. You know, I'm going to get this money and leave her, get my own place, so I go back to California. Okay. I met her son last night.

Oh, okay. Her son came? No, I'm sorry, his son. These son, I'm all. That's okay. He flew in. He came up to my apartment. Um, but as he's leaving, she came up knocked on my door.

When he was up to get him. I think she was nervous. It was like she was pissed. He was up there. And then she's like, I just. want to let you know I found the willpapers. So she said in front of you though that she found willpapes? Yes. Yep. Ina clearly had become obsessed with the idea that she was about to live the life of her dreams with Steve's inheritance. But after rumors of Steve leaving her,

it seems Ina became terrified that she might not receive the funds and would be stuck with her depressive living conditions. It's now become obvious how these events and Steve's strange death could be correlated to one another. However, as Rebecca had stated herself, she was a nosy neighbor, looking for any rumors or conspiracy theories to help solve the neighborhood drama. I've also cut out over 40 minutes of completely false information Rebecca gave to detectives, which certainly doesn't add to her authenticity. In order to further confirm the accuracy of these claims, two more reliable sources would be brought in the following day, Steve's son, Ryan and Billy Burke had. If anyone would be able to give proper

insight into Steve's life, it would be these two, as they were by far the closest people to Steve. We're assigned the case of your dad's passing. You're really the only next of Ken that's maybe had a relationship with your dad, it sounds like? Yeah. Okay. Did he ever talk to you about Eno when you guys talked in the last year? Yeah. He was talking about how he was getting a large some of money and he kind of just wanted to leave her because she didn't really have a job and was like weeching off the phone did Steve ever talk about leaving you know all the time every day she was she talked about poison and Steve and me because we're always together and she didn't like that and I don't know how much it was it's supposed to be it's way up there in the money

It was like 20-something million. Best thing you can do is get on the plane and don't look back. Yeah. I said that's the best thing you can do. Almost every piece of information the detectives receive leads straight to Ina as the killer. It also makes sense why Ina hated Billy and Steve's son so much, as they knew far more information than she would have liked about the inheritance

and her schemes to obtain it. These interviews wouldn't last long, as detectives got all the information they needed from the two and could directly confront Ina with it. But before leaving, they would break disturbing news to Ryan, which would make this case even more of a terrible tragedy. So this inheritance now, I'm thinking that's the same thing we're thinking, which, I mean, I don't, obviously don't mean for sure, but by all, comes of looking at it, it looks like it's a scam. Looks like it's a, I mean, the letter has different fonts in it and things. And so, and the fact that your dad had been going there several times to me look similar, it never showed up to the airport.

That and all the emails that they tried to send back to the sender of those emails, it always came back on deliverable. The inheritance was a scam. Steve had lived for the past seven years under the impression that if he just patiently waited, living through his terrible living conditions, he would come out with more money than he could dream of and finally enjoy life. Even worse, was that this very scam that stagnated his life for years may have been the cause of his very own death. With such a pity of a case, detectives would go on to interview a handful of other suspects in order to get as much

information as they possibly could to help break down Ina's defense. And after multiple days of interviews, the day finally came to confront Ina with everything they've gathered. But despite all this evidence against her, officers knew they would have a hard time prosecuting Ina without a confession or incriminating statements, and that's exactly what they were determined to get. Inside this cut down, one-and-a-half-hour interview, you'll see some of the most clever interrogation tactics I've ever shown on this channel slowly dismantling Ina's story until all she has left is an incoherent string of lies so like i said we have been just talking to everyone like Billy Wes everybody that kind of just knew Steve just to get an idea like what was going on in life

so you and Steve were in a relationship yep okay how long had you guys been together 13 years. Okay. Where did you guys meet? Home and shelter. In... Buffet, dinner. In North Dakota?

Washington. In Washington. Okay. The detectives would go on to get more information about Ina and Steve's early relationship. But it wouldn't last long before Ina would start conspiring against Billy and others she wanted to paint as suspects. And I begged him to, you know, stay away from... We've even gotten into fights. To stay away from...

Billy and Lynn and I don't like calling people nasty and I've seen they've seen them worse than Steve because he's tall and re-looking people were intimidated by him okay just by his look so what why would you want him to stay with him Billy and Lynn because they're really really nasty people felonies breaking into places I knew they did more of the pot you know smoking more of them Did Steve smoke more than marijuana? No, he's allergic to marijuana. Okay. Like me. Did he use other drugs? Uh, not for the longest time.

Was he using, was using that? No. Okay. No, after that, after he got the max the last time. Yep. He's like, screw this. I'm gonna just do what I want and want what I want. Okay.

So that's when he started using? I think so. Okay. This would be the first of Ina's lies during this interrogation. She knew Steve had been using long before the incident she described, but in order to make Billy seem like the villain in their lives, she wanted to make it seem as though he was the reason for Steve's drug use. Take note of Ina's body language while she clearly lies.

She glances up and avoids eye contact, constantly fidgets and scratches her skin, and most notably stutters and slurs on her speech as she tries to make up a story. Keep this in mind for the rest of the interrogation, and you'll be able to accurately point out when Ina isn't telling the truth. But now, the police would ask her perhaps the most intriguing question. What exactly did she plan to do with the inheritance money? So how, when did he find out about this inheritance?

I want to say three months ago, four months ago. So what is the inheritance? I know you had shown that first day, Lieutenant Dakinet came, you showed us kind of that letter that was on Steve's phone. Mm-hmm. Is that, that's the inheritance, that was the letter? Okay. And he was talking to an actual lawyer, I guess, from London.

So this lawyer reached out to him and said he's... I guess, I don't even know how he found out about it. He just, it just appeared. And he was reading that the money wasn't cursed or whatever. Every single person that went for the Riley money over there. Yeah. Even this 21-year-old, I passed away. Clearly, Aynah is running out of resources to take suspicion off herself, and the detectives

won't take long before making her abundantly aware of how horrible of a liar she is. But for now, they'd like to get some more information on this inheritance, and if Aina would admit to trying to claim it all for herself. How much money was it? It ended up, it was supposed to be 17 million, $1,500,000. So with all the properties sold off, it ended up being 37 million. So there is cash and then properties were sold out. Okay.

So I gave all the information that's supposed to be coming from. Who was the family member? Marcus, something Riley. Was that a brother or uncle? That was an uncle. Okay. Did he live? In Ireland?

Okay. How did they get to, is it starting to be that the lawyer is starting to give him like a time that he's coming to my not? Yeah. That's pretty much when he kept saying, I'm going to show up at this time. And Steve would write down there and he wasn't there. And then you get the email afterwards that he was going to come until later and then later. Okay. The detectives would spend the next 25 minutes trying to understand Ina's timeline for the day they plan to receive the inheritance.

Whenever she gave a time for when the group went to the airport, she would conveniently change that time entirely, just a few minutes later. But one detail would stay the same. Unlike her original claims to officers on the day of the murder, she would insist that Steve had never gone to the airport, but rather Wes had gone instead to represent Steve. This was confusing, but Ina's reason as to why Steve couldn't make it to the airport would make just as little sense. Because he was drinking beer all day, he was working in the garage, he was spray painting his truck, you know, with the doors and the windows closed, barely drinking any water. So he consumed almost a case of beer and...

Oh, he didn't drink more than that. Pay attention to Ina here. She's carefully crafting a story. crafting a story to deflect suspicion, but the detectives came prepared. I've seen him bring a couple of cases. But on that day... Yeah, it was a case beer. From probably six or seven in the morning, until two in the afternoon, so five to six hours?

Is that it found right? Probably, okay. Do you drink anything else? Just a glass of water and his tea. I made iced tea because he begged for ice tea. Steve had no traces of alcohol in his system the day of his death, proven by a blood test, and toxicology. So detectives know, clearly, Ina, is lying through her teeth. So I just have a lot of concerns here, okay, and I'm just going to be honest with you.

You told the paramedics when they were there that morning or afternoon that he had been drinking till 5 in the morning, that he had been consuming alcohol. That's on body cam. Okay, you said he was drinking all day the day before and that he drank his last drink at 5 a.m. Okay, and now you're telling me... now you're telling me that's not what you say on this video okay I want to see this video okay well I'm not going to show you the body cam I'm just telling you that that's what's on there there's reports that West came to the house

that morning and you said that Steve was at the walking clinic he wasn't because that's what Steve didn't want to see Wes anymore okay but Steve wasn't at the walking clinic he was at the hospital he wasn't at the hospital we just left with the ambulance when Wes showed up there there, that's no, it's been reported to us. What was there prior to? Yeah, the time to say, I'll just prove that. I want a lawyer.

Okay, that's fine. Realizing she's running out of options to defend herself, and with the detectives closing in, Ina resorts to something surprisingly clever as a last-ditch effort, asking for a lawyer. Am I being arrested? Nope, you're not being arrested. We're just talking, so, but if you want a lawyer,

we can stop talking right now. That's fine. But I'm telling you, the God honest truth. I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. I wish I was there. I wish I was with him every second of the day that day. I wish I watched every single, but I'm not his goddamn mom.

You asked for a lawyer, you know, so we're just going to end this now. Okay, I'm not going to talk anymore. All right. You guys are so unbelievable. The second Ina realized the detective saw right through her story, she folded under the pressure and insisted on a lawyer. Ina had finally realized her game was over. Following this interrogation, Ina would roam free while detectives scrambled for concrete evidence that she had poisoned Steve. Ina would continue fighting for her innocence, making more deranged theories, such as Steve

drinking the antifreeze out of shame that the lawyer was a fraud, or that she had too been poisoned just months prior. Unfortunately for her, police managed to file a search warrant on Apartment 912 , finding multiple alarming items. An old Windex bottle without a cap containing a bright green liquid suspected to be antifreeze, as well as a Coors Light bottle containing antifreeze found in the garage Steve had been working in that morning. This exact Coors Light bottle was what Ina used to poison Steve with.

Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol, an ingredient that makes the liquid taste sweet. By mixing this with tea, Steve was fully unable to tell this fatal substance apart from his typical morning tea. Additionally, by hiding the liquids in the dark Coors Light bottle, Steve was unable to see the bright green color of this drink. With all of this newfound, completely incriminating evidence, as well as the numerous lies and false claims Ina had told law enforcement, she would finally be arrested on October 30, 2004.

Good God! I know. Please lock up my house. Yeah, we'll lock up the house for you. I'll give me the keys, but... We'll lock your house up for you. Why me? It's alright.

Who? Who? Do you let you smoke a cigarette? You're gonna be decent? Oh, I'll be so... I've never dealt with you, so... I've never been arrested before like this. I've never done anything. I haven't done anything.

It seems like I'm an easy stick goat. You know? All I am is an easy stick up. I was gonna kill him. I would have killed up the day he lied to me and I found out you were doing drugs. I just may grab me on and say don't fall, right? And I would have done it physically not. Physically?

Yeah. I'm a pretty woman now, no. Nobody out here to watch the dogs, just you? No friends or anything? You have any friends at work that would take them? We just don't want them to die in there, right? Why? How old are you holding them? how old are you holding you?

We don't know. So we'll have our officers grab the dog, so we'll put a hold on them, all right? Six months following Ina's arrest, she would sit down in the courtroom for one final time, accepting a plea deal for the murder of Steve Riley. It had been a matter of principle for Ina throughout this entire investigation, staying true to her word no matter how delusional it sounded. But in this courtroom, Ina was left with no choice. to finally confess.

Ina Thea Knoir was charged with murder, intentional, knowing, or with extreme indifference of an adult victim. She was sentenced to life in prison. Her first chance at probation will come in 2050.