
Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group/TNS
SAN JOSE, Calif. — She grew up in a lovely home in the Almaden Valley. She was a cheerleader at West Valley College and a fan of the San Jose Sharks. She rescued kittens for a nonprofit agency. But when police arrested Kelly Richardson a day before Thanksgiving, they found her with the drugs that had turned her life to tragedy. On Monday, Richardson, 28, walked into the Santa Clara County courtroom in shackles next to her boyfriend Derek Rayo, 27. It was the San Jose couple’s first court appearance to face murder charges in the fentanyl overdose death of their 19-month-old daughter Winter — th...