WEST HAVEN, Vt. -
To some, Vermont's known as the dairy capital of the world, but one woman got quite creative with what to do with all that manure! She allegedly smeared it all over the inside of another woman's car. Laura Richards says it was her husband's mistress. Well, Richards was the one who got caught and was in court today.
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Mud and cow manure on the dash, the seats, even the air conditioning vents were filled.
"Everything is dirty," said one witness on the farm.
And police say 39 year old Laura Richards is responsible. She pleaded not guilty to simple assault and unlawful mischief in court Wednesday.
"She was a mistress of my first husband's as well," Defendant Laura Richards said.
She's referring to Jessica Drake. Richards believes Drake is having an affair with her current husband Joshua Richards.
"I don't know how they know each other or what this story is, something in the past, but I don't know," Joshua Richards said.
Police say Laura Richards showed up to the farm on Route 22A in West Haven, where her husband and Drake work.
"She was right in my face," Jessica Drake said.
Police say a fight between the two women started and ended with Drake hitting her head on a pipe.
"It's just bruised," Drake said.
I stopped by the farm to get Jessica's side of the story, she says she has no idea how this all got started.
She told me, "I have a finance."
But for Richards, it was revenge. "I don't deserve to be abused, spit on, cut, punched, kicked," she said.
In the battle of she said, she said... the mud and cow manure went flying! No doubt it's an unusual story, but Richards could face serious consequences if convicted. Technically a year and a half behind bars.
By the time police caught up with Richards, she claimed manure and mud had been flung on her car too. But police say, based on evidence, it looks like she smeared it on herself.
