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Lori Isenberg entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder in February 2021 in the poisoning death of her husband, Larry Isenberg, and was sentenced on May 24, 2021, to life in prison with a fixed minimum of 30 years.

Larry Isenberg, 68, and Lori Isenberg, whose legal name is Laurcene Isenberg, lived in the Coeur d'Alene area of Kootenai County in north Idaho. She was 66 when arrested and 67 when sentenced. She had run the North Idaho Housing Coalition and embezzled 579,495 dollars from the organization. She pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of wire fraud in January 2019 and began a five year federal prison sentence in May 2019. Four of her daughters were convicted in 2019 of conspiracy to commit federal program theft in connection with the money. Prosecutors said she killed her husband to keep him from learning what she had done.

Early on February 13, 2018, the couple took a boat from Sun Up Bay onto Lake Coeur d'Alene to watch the sunrise. About two hours after launching, Lori Isenberg called for help and reported that her husband had gone over the side while dealing with a stalled motor. A search that day did not find him. His body was recovered on March 1, 2018. An autopsy found that he had not drowned but died of diphenhydramine toxicity, the active ingredient in Benadryl. His blood contained about 7,100 nanograms of the drug, compared with a reported therapeutic range of 100 to 1,000 nanograms.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office investigated. Lori Isenberg told investigators the motor stalled and Larry Isenberg leaned over to inspect it before falling into the lake. She said she tripped over a space heater and struck her head while trying to reach him, and suggested he may have suffered a medical episode. She said she waited about two hours to call for help because she wanted to remain near where he entered the water. She also said she had left her phone behind and believed his phone was in his pocket, then called after locating it on the boat.

The recording contains two police interviews with Lori Isenberg. The first captures her shoreline account on the morning her husband disappeared, including the stalled motor, his fall and her delay in calling for help. The second is a later custodial interview conducted after she was imprisoned on the federal fraud sentence. Detectives confront her one item at a time with the toxicology finding, the recovered phone and her internet activity. The date and the facility of that second interview are not established.

Prosecutors said Lori Isenberg had searched online for drowning related material before the killing. The method by which the drug was given to Larry Isenberg was never established. A Kootenai County grand jury indicted her on January 31, 2020. She was arrested on February 24, 2020, and charged with first-degree murder, with bond set at 2 million dollars. The charging document cited poison, lying in wait or torture.

An Alford plea allows a defendant to deny guilt while acknowledging that the state has enough evidence to obtain a conviction at trial. At sentencing, Judge Scott Wayman imposed the life term. Lori Isenberg said she was responsible for her husband's death and had known it from the first day, but maintained that she put Benadryl in a drink intending to take her own life and that Larry Isenberg drank it.

The video is a police interview-room recording running about 71 minutes. It presents the interview itself and opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.