A fraud it seems was the inheritance of 30 million dollars that 51-year-old Steven Edward Riley Jr., who was poisoned by his 47-year-old partner in the US, was to receive.

According to the New York Post, the 51-year-old’s son said that his father had received an e-mail by a person claiming to be a lawyer for an unknown distant relative who asked them to meet at an airport in order to sign the papers of the alleged inheritance.

The 51-year-old’s son

“He didn’t suspect anything before going to the airport but he was sure he had inherited the money which he would get from the supposed lawyer,” said the victim’s 21-year-old son. “But the ‘lawyer’ never showed up. It was a scam. He was someone who convinced my father that everything was real,” he added.

According to the young man, his father planned to buy plots of land, some of which he would give to his two childrenand then wanted to open an auto parts store.

The 21-year-old’s assessment is that his partner Tina Kenoyer had also believed the fraud and this was her motive for murdering him. “They weren’t too happy either my father had been thinking of giving her up for a long time. He had never worked and was like a leech. He was always bored and did nothing.”

He poisoned him with antifreeze

Riley breathed his last at the hospital he was taken to a day after being poisoned, with the initial assessment being that his death was caused by cardiac arrest but an autopsy showing that he had fallen victim to poisoning.

Officers who searched the couple’s home found a bottle containing the antifreeze with which the poisoning took place while traces of the substance were found in a beer bottle and a plastic cup discovered in the garage.