Chapter 1: What mysterious event unfolds on the Jersey Shore?
It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey Shore. Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge. A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern. Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide? At this point, nobody knows. Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie plays out in real life.
I'm Juju Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio. Listen now to Bridge of Lies wherever you get your podcasts. It's a cold night in Evansville, Indiana.
Chapter 2: Who is Sarah Stern and what happened to her?
A man says he's headed out to run an errand. But the inside of his vehicle tells a much different story. He's got a gun, a police scanner, and photos of his intended target. It had been a normal day.
I had cleaned the house and done a little bit of shopping at Target and then at the neighborhood Walmart. And then I was at home cooking. I was making mac and cheese and thick cut pork chops. Becky Dorr and Robbie Dorr were married. She stayed at home while he worked multiple jobs to provide for the family. Robbie had just arrived home after working a 12-hour shift at the fire department.
I saw him pull up into the driveway. Didn't see his actual truck, just saw the headlights. Within a minute or so after that, I heard four or five pops. There were several 911 calls that came in. A lot were from neighbors reporting gunshots. Hi, I don't know what happened, but I heard a loud bang and then I looked out the door and the people across the street said, Call 9-1-1.
I heard five shots going off consecutively. Did you see a car leave area? No, we didn't. We just heard the popping.
And then Elizabeth Fox's door would be a 9-1-1 caller.
And we called 9-1-1. One of the sensors got shot. All I see is blood on the ground. Debbie, what happened? All I saw was my husband's headlights pulling to the driveway, and then I heard a bunch of popping.
When did this happen, ma'am? It's a shooting, so it would be a heavy police presence there.
Is this your husband? Yes.
I'm up here at the intersection of Colorado and Oakley.
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Chapter 3: What details emerge about the night of the shooting?
There was a lot of police officers. Crime scene tape was already up. It was a very hectic scene. I started seeing a lot of firefighters arrive. You don't usually see that at a shooting.
What the ? I didn't realize who it is.
Robbie. Robbie. Got anything? Connect electrical. Robbie. Robbie!
he's done dude damn it oh god no damn it once we found out that it was robbie dore we immediately knew this was a beloved firefighter in this community that he was a leader within the department he trained a lot of the rookies hey man let's go back this way come on let's go right now i know man i don't want to be rude or disrespectful but we got to get the fire out of here because that's one of theirs
I was kind of in a haze, like a daze.
I was doing the motions of what I needed to do. I relied a lot on my oldest son.
When I got there, I got stopped by the police, or maybe it was a fireman, I'm not sure, but said I couldn't go down the street. And I was like, what are you talking about? My parents live down here. I have to get to the house.
And I said, my dad's just been shot. She said that he died.
Dad is dead. The whole house was swarming with police officers and other people that had been notified. It was traumatic.
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Chapter 4: How does the community react to the murder of Robbie Dorr?
What was it like growing up with Becky? She was my big sister.
She was a good sister. We played. We traded stickers. We jumped on the trampoline. Swam. Not in trouble. She was the sister that comforted me. For 47 years, she was everything good and pure and wonderful. Like my mom was trying to be like Jude Cleaver, perfect stay at home wife. But my mom and Robbie, their relationship, it had problems. He started to question things. It seemed normal to you?
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Watch the new Hulu original series, The Testaments, streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Terms apply. Oh, yeah. Robbie and I were best friends for 34 years. And then didn't make any difference. We were always there for each other. We've made a lot of runs together, several fires. Robbie gave 110% on every run he ever made.
Door was shot to death outside his Oakley Street home last week.
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Chapter 5: What clues do the police uncover during the investigation?
And I thought, golly, this one's bold. So we just, we started talking. And a couple months later, he called one night and said, do you want me to bring my stuff to your house? We were together from that time on. He pulled up in his car with all of his clothes and said he was moving in. And she was thrilled beans about it. He was very, very tall. I think he was six foot something.
He has a nice smile. I will say that he was the most handsome out of the men that I've seen her date. Larry was always really gentle with my mom. He was always getting her things. He was always doing things for her. I don't think I've ever seen her happier. I just always felt loved. I came home one day and he had gone to the Goodwill and just laid out a bunch of dresses on the bed.
I was like, oh, you know, he didn't even know what size I wore. But he was able to pick them, everything fit. I felt fancy. He was really close to his family. Larry Richmond Sr. is very proud of his son, Larry Richmond Jr. They were two peas in a pod.
So you bring him to Thanksgiving, introduce him to your family, but you don't tell them about his past.
No.
Why not?
It felt like a mean thing to do to him. That's not how I wanted everybody to see him. That's not who he was to me. That's not who he was trying to be. Larry had his history. He told me when he was 17 years old, he accidentally killed a man and did 20 years for it.
Well, he actually pled guilty to knowingly killing a person. How did he explain it?
He said he was trying to get the guy to show him his ID because he believed that the guy had done something inappropriate to one of his friend's brothers. And he said that in the process of trying to see the guy's ID, the gun went off. At first, I was like, oh, that's not great. But then slowly, like, I mean, my mom convinced us. She was like, he's a changed man. It was an accident.
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Chapter 6: What role does Larry Richmond Jr. play in the case?
Okay. Due to my past, I have been incarcerated. I'm on probation. I don't need any problems.
Sure. No, I understand. If I'm not under arrest, please get a hold of him. I will come back down here and fully cooperate. No problems at all.
All we're trying to do is find out if you guys know anything that could help us find this killer.
I don't know nothing. We go out with him. We go out and drink. Outside of that there, I don't know nothing.
They brought us down there and immediately I realized it's like I am awful close to whatever the crap is happening. I don't know what... We're gonna explain it to you. We'll get to all that. Whatever's going on in your mind, I can guarantee you it's not a big deal at all, okay? Where were you at when Robbie was murdered? Do you remember? When I don't know exactly...
Otherwise, can you tell me when it was? It was Tuesday, last Tuesday.
Around 7 o'clock.
You're home? You're home? Okay.
Were your kids there? Was Larry there? Yeah, we were all there.
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Chapter 7: How does the trial of Elizabeth Fox Dorr unfold?
That moment was... a moment of... Could she? Would she? Why would she? It was a whole gamut of emotion. Elizabeth was originally charged with the obstruction of justice. She soon was out on bond.
Larry. Junior. What's up, dude?
Larry Jr. was walking a fine line between going to prison for a very long time and not. And it wasn't until much later in the same evening that he knocked on the door and said, hey, I need to talk to investigators again because I need to tell them something. He tells investigators, my dad has guns at Mandy's house.
My dad said if anything was to go down, he would bury the gun.
It is said that Larry Richmond Sr. had buried a tote full of guns in the backyard of Mandy's house where he was living at the time. He's even caught on video doing this. The detectives came across a surveillance system from the house just directly to Mandy's, Larry's fiancee's house.
It shows Larry coming out of the house in the evening with his box under his arm and grabbing some type of utensil and going behind the garage and then coming back empty handed.
One morning, I wake up, I'm sitting in the living room, and all of a sudden, there are police cars everywhere. That whole block, this whole block of Sheffield was full of police cars. And I'm like, get up here, see what's going on. And they searched the whole grounds, and when they got to that fire pit, they started digging. And they almost dug every square inch back here.
I mean, they dug everywhere. I'm over the fence and I said, what's going on? He says, well, we're hunting for stuff. And then I saw some guns in the other policeman's hand. I said, oh, that's what you're looking for. And he goes, yeah, we found several where the fire pit was. That box was taken to headquarters and you could have heard a pin drop. They did it right.
Our crime scene detective came in and then slowly started processing that box. And we're all like, please take out a tourist judge or tourist judge ammunition.
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Chapter 8: What is the final verdict in the case of Robbie Dorr’s murder?
It's heartbreaking. It feels like an eternity.
7-8-2-8-5-2-6-1-0-5-2-7. Here, I'll go. You're going to leave your hand. Yes, sir. Put your hand behind your back.
When Larry Richmond Sr. was taken into custody on March 4th of 2019, we seized two phones from him. We got search warrants for those phones, but what ultimately slowed us down was we didn't have a passcode for Larry's iPhone.
I'm John Carter. I'm a criminal investigator with the High Tech Crime Unit out of the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor's Office.
The equipment that the Evansville Police Department had at the time, you had to have a passcode in order to get the information from the phone, which is where we took over with our new tools and techniques to acquire that passcode. The computer system just runs an algorithm of passwords and we have no say in how long that is. Those algorithms can take seconds.
We've had phones that have taken up to two years. I believe in this particular case, it was anywhere between six to eight months. I remember that day well that John called me and said, hey, we got into Larry Sr. 's phone. We have the content. Utilizing the digital evidence that we discovered from his phone, we were able to build a bigger picture of what had occurred that night.
In the 6 o'clock hour, Larry Richmond Sr. 's phone is all within that area of the door residence, as if he's just slithering, snaking around. There's foot traffic and then eventually in the alley from 631 to 639. This guy is able to be in the alley at the exact time a fireman comes home. Shortly after, he's talking to Elizabeth on the phone at 646 to 651.
In the interview with Becky Foxdor, we got her to admit that, yes, I told him he would be home shortly. We don't know where Larry's location was between 652 and 714 because his phone is powered off. It's not until you actually came to this alley and saw it with your own eyes that you can really understand now where he was. This is the path that Robbie took the last moments of his life.
He would have turned north here on Oakley to get to his house. This was not a normal time for Robbie to be coming home.
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