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[–] markz@suppo.fi 110 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Not that weird. Usually these types can't shut the fuck about it.

The internet search history from Richins's phone included "what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl" and "luxury prisons for the rich America"

Lmao

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 53 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As a defense attorney I would've immediately declared my client mentally disabled and listed the search history as proof.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 51 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Good Lord. Pic of internet searches shown in court.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

This is why you should always google really funny shit before committing a crime.

"How to not incriminate myself but make the query so funny that it shows up in the court docs"

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 60 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

"how to tell the police that you totally did it and leave every trace imaginable, for ipohen"

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That would almost be as bad as writing a six page letter detailing all of your attempted witness tampering and accidentally having it found in your jail cell.

Which is a thing she did.

It could only be worse if that letter included instructions to make threats against someone's children.

Oh. It did.

Look up the "Walk the dog" letter. It is one of the most unbelievably damning pieces of evidence you will ever see. The prosecution literally built their entire closing argument around it because it's so bad that they can just discard the rest of their case and still win on that alone.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

Do you mean an iphkne? Common mistake tbf.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 12 points 7 hours ago

Big "Can u get pregante" vibes.

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Lmao I followed this trial start to finish but mainly listened to it in the background podcast-style so I didn't see most of the closing slides. Didn't realize how many typos were in those searches haha.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 41 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

She also searched for her own net worth, which is super embarrassing.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's interesting. On the surface one might assume she's just dumb and doesn't understand how to assess her finances, but I wonder if there's more to it; maybe she already knew her net worth (or didn't particularly care), but wanted to know what other people say her net worth is.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ngl, if I had "people googling my net worth" money, I'd check at least once lol

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

She didn't. She was in the hole $1.5M. There's a whole series of fraud cases which are basically her singled-handed personal ponzi scheme of bad loans that are still pending trial.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

What is it with these people? One thing is just never enough. If she had just killed her husband that's fine, if he was just scamming people that's fine, but if you can't stick to one crime at a time honey you're gonna get caught 👁️👄👁️💅🏾