Colby Trickle had said Kristen Trickle had kept the .357 revolver by her side of the bed, but that didn't seem to line up with what Burkholder saw at the scene.

After Kristen Trickle died at her home in Kansas, her husband Colby Trickle received over $120,000 in life insurance benefits and spent nearly $2,000 on a sex doll supposedly to help him sleep.