In 2012 a huge explosion rocked Richmond Hill, Indiana, killing two people and injuring thirteen others. The explosion was caused by a woman who plotted with others to blow up her home for the insurance money. In cahoots with three other people, including her boyfriend and his brother, the defendant increased the personal insurance on her home mere days before the explosion occurred.

The couple boarded their cat, sent their daughter to a friend's house, and spent the weekend at the casino. Before they left for the casino, they filled the house with natural gas and set the microwave to spark at a later time in order to detonate the house.

A week prior to the explosion, the boyfriend told a friend about the explosion in great detail, an act that would serve to condemn him later in court. Each member of the conspiracy was charged with two counts of murder and arson, in the deaths of their neighbors.

Although Indiana does have the death penalty, the prosecutors chose to go with a life sentence as a jury would be unlikely to impose the death penalty when there was no evidence that the defendants meant to cause the deaths. On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, the woman was sentenced to fifty years in prison, and the man was convicted on fifty-one counts including murder and conspiracy to commit arson, and sentenced to two life sentences without parole as well as seventy years from other charges.