North Dakota woman poisons boyfriend hours after he inherits $30M

A North Dakota woman fatally poisoned her boyfriend after learning about his plans to dump her because he had inherited $30 million just hours earlier, police said.

Ina Thea Kenoyer, 47, was charged Monday with the Sept. 5 murder of Steven Edward Riley Jr., 51, a gruesome act that cops said was driven by financial motives.

This case was extremely complex, said investigations commander Capt. Dale Plessas of the Minot Police Department.

Riley became ill when he met with his lawyer Sept. 3 to collect the massive inheritance sum, witnesses told investigators, according to police records.

Kenoyer didn t call 911 until the next day when paramedics arrived to find Riley unresponsive in his Minot home.

He died at the hospital the following day.

An autopsy determined he was killed after ingesting antifreeze, which police allege Kenoyer fed him.

The accused killer proclaimed her innocence in a series of nonsensical Facebook posts in the days leading up to her arrest, claiming Riley had killed himself.

To the Shafer that almost hit me, that s not married hello hunny I wish I was looking for someone but no I m a one man woman, kind person, and Steve Riley the only man I ever wanted, she said in a post three days before she was charged with murder.

via nypost.com

This must have been an unexpected windfall.