The Case Against Kouri Richins
This podcast provides an in-depth examination of the case against Kouri Richins, who is accused of poisoning her husband. It explores the legal, personal, and psychological aspects of the case, including alleged poisoning attempts, life insurance policies, and a changed will. Through interviews and expert commentary, the podcast seeks to uncover the truth behind the tragedy.
Episodes
What Did Eric Richins Quietly Do When He Found Out About Kouri?
The defense wanted the jury to picture Kouri Richins as a wife trapped by a controlling husband. The paper trail in this case points somewhere else entirely — and this look back walks through what the record reveals, and the quiet, devastating thing Eric did when he discovered it.According to charging documents, court records, and forensic accounting testimony, the financial picture was staggerin
What Did Eric Richins Tell People About Kouri Before He Died?
Eighteen days before he died, Eric Richins reportedly told more than one person he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He was right. This look back at the Kouri Richins case stays close to that devastating fact — a man who saw it coming, said so out loud, and died anyway.Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud after a jur
Why Did Eric Richins Tell His Family "If Anything Happens To Me, It's Kouri Richins"?
Eric Richins told his family. He called his sister Katie from overseas years before his death and said Kouri Richins had tried to harm him. He consulted a divorce attorney. He rewrote his will. He restructured his estate so his three sons would be protected. He told the people closest to him that if anything happened to him, Kouri was responsible. And he went home every night.Katie testified at s
Why Did Eric Richins Stay With Kouri Richins When He Knew She’d Kill Him?
Eric Richins wasn’t the only person living inside the world Kouri Richins built. His friends were in it. His family was in it. The systems that might have intervened were in it. Everyone around the Richins marriage was processing a situation so far outside the template of ordinary life that nobody had the framework for what they were seeing.When Eric told a friend about the Valentine’s Day sandwi
Why Did Kouri Richins Call A Scripted Testimony Letter A Novel About A Mexican Prison?
Deputies found it during a medical episode. A six-page letter inside an LSAT prep book in Kouri Richins' jail cell. The letter scripted her brother's testimony. When they confronted her, she didn't deny writing it. She said it was part of a fictional novel about a Mexican prison.That answer is Kouri Richins in one sentence. Every threat produces a story. Not a planned lie — a reflex. Something th
How Did Kouri Richins Write A Grief Book While She Was The Reason Her Kids Were Grieving?
She wrote a children's book about grief. Went on TV to promote it. Talked about helping her boys cope with their dad's "unexpected" death. Hugged them on camera. Cried in interviews. Fourteen months of a woman the world believed was a grieving mother. Every friend who testified at trial said they never doubted her. The whole time, she was the reason those children had no father.The question isn't
Kouri Richins Told Her Sons to 'Never Apologize' — What Did She Mean?
The eye rolls came during the pain. Her children's statements. Eric's family's grief. The therapists describing what those boys endured. Kouri rolled her eyes, smirked, and mouthed objections through all of it.The tears came during the praise. Her mother. Her sister. Her brother. Telling her she was innocent. Telling her she was the center of the family. Then the sobbing started. Visible. Uncontr
A Juror Felt Sorry for Kouri Richins — Until the Evidence Started
"At first, I was thinking that Kouri was definitely feeling trapped." That was a juror's first impression. By the verdict: "Like a statue." What happened in between is the subject of this episode.Three weeks of prosecution witnesses dismantling Kouri Richins' constructed identity while she sat in mandated silence. The defense called nobody. She didn't testify. The woman who has produced stories u
Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop — Even With Every Call Recorded?
From a jail cell. On recorded lines. Through smuggled letters hidden in LSAT prep books. Through phone calls where she read other inmates' mail to her mother. Through video calls where she held up documents for her mother to photograph. Every rule broken. Every consequence ignored. And when caught, not silence — another story. A fictional novel. About a Mexican prison.The question this episode an
How Did Kouri Richins Write a Grief Book and Mean Every Word?
For fourteen months, Kouri Richins walked through a community as a grieving widow. She closed deals. She socialized. She published a children's book and went on television. Friends testified at trial that she seemed like a good mother dealing with a terrible loss. Nobody saw through it.The reason nobody saw through it is the subject of this episode — and it's more disturbing than you'd expect. Be
How Did Kouri Richins Function for 17 Days After What She Did on Valentine's Day?
The Valentine's Day attempt failed. Eric survived. And over the next seventeen days, something happened inside Kouri Richins' psychology that separates this case from almost any other.She didn't stop. She didn't panic. She didn't wonder if she'd been caught. She spent those seventeen days acquiring more fentanyl, adjusting her method, and planning a second attempt with five times the lethal dose.
Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead?
Kouri Richins owed $7.5 million. Her forensic accountant used one word: imploding. Two hundred thirty-six bounced checks. Fifteen failed renovation projects. A house-flipping business hemorrhaging cash. Eric was quietly meeting with divorce attorneys, removing Kouri from his will, cutting her from his life insurance, and building a trust she didn't know about to protect their three sons. Her pren
Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead?
Kouri Richins owed $7.5 million. Her forensic accountant used one word: imploding. Two hundred thirty-six bounced checks. Fifteen failed renovation projects. A house-flipping business hemorrhaging cash. Eric was quietly meeting with divorce attorneys, removing Kouri from his will, cutting her from his life insurance, and building a trust she didn't know about to protect their three sons. Her pren
Who Was Investigating Kouri Richins Before Law Enforcement Even Got There?
Eric Richins' family made a phone call that changed this case. Todd Gabler had spent 34 years as a private investigator — every single case for the defense. He'd never crossed to the other side. The family hired him on a civil matter. What he found in the phone records made it impossible to stay there.Kouri Richins was in constant contact with a housekeeper who had a criminal record and was faili
What Did Todd Gabler See in the Kouri Richins Case That Nobody Else Could?
The jury needed under three hours. Guilty on all counts. Aggravated murder. Attempted aggravated murder. Forgery. Insurance fraud. Judge Mrazik sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without parole and said a person who commits those acts "is simply too dangerous to ever be free."Behind that verdict was an investigation that started with a phone call about a civil matter and became the case th
Does a Case Like Kouri Richins Ever Let Go of the Investigator Who Cracked It?
Todd Gabler has closed a lot of case files in 34 years. Over a hundred homicide investigations. Testimony in more than a dozen murder trials. He knows what it feels like to finish the work and move on. But the Kouri Richins case wasn't like the others.This was the investigation that put him on the prosecution's side of a courtroom for the first time in his career. The one where he showed up on a
What Did Todd Gabler Hand Over to Prosecutors That Changed the Kouri Richins Case?
Two hard drives. That's what Todd Gabler delivered to the Summit County Attorney's Office. One contained audio recordings, video footage, and photographs from over a year of independent investigation. The other held computer forensics, including a cloned copy of Eric Richins' phone. Taken together, those drives contained evidence that helped transform a stalled investigation into an arrest.Gabler
How Did Todd Gabler Go From Civil Case to Building the Case Against Kouri Richins?
Kouri Richins' third most frequent phone contact in the months her husband died wasn't a friend, a colleague, or a family member. It was her housekeeper — a woman with a drug-related criminal history who was testing positive in drug court. Todd Gabler found that in the billing records before anyone with a badge did.Then he pulled the phone records. Between January and May 2022, Kouri Richins was
Why Is Kouri Richins' Own Son Afraid She'll Come For Him?
Her thirteen-year-old told the court he's afraid she'll come for him if she ever gets out. That statement sits at the center of everything happening in the Kouri Richins case right now — because even with life without parole, the question of whether she's done isn't settled.Before she was sentenced, Kouri wrote a message that prosecutors put in their filing. She promised to "expose this county, t
What Was Kouri Richins Doing From Her Jail Cell This Entire Time?
Kouri Richins told her sons to forgive. Prosecutors say she spent every day before that speech attacking the people around this case from inside her jail cell — and the sentencing memo has all of it.A fake dating profile made for the lead detective and posted online. What prosecutors call false reports filed against the family raising her boys. Hired a lawyer to go after her sister-in-law. Federa
Did Kouri Richins Just Warn Her Kids' New Family In Court?
Kouri Richins' boys couldn't stand in that courtroom and say what they needed to say. They wrote it down and gave it to their therapists. What those therapists read out loud described locked doors, animals dying because nobody cared for them, a brother sneaking food to a sibling shut away in his bedroom, and a childhood where fear was the only constant. Every one of them asked the judge for the s
What Are Kouri Richins' Children So Afraid Of?
Kouri Richins' boys couldn't stand up in that courtroom and say what they needed to say. They're too young and too scared. So they wrote it down and asked their therapists to read it for them.What they wrote is devastating. One boy talked about waking up to sirens and not being able to do anything. Another described becoming a parent to his younger brother — feeding him, walking him to the bus —
Kouri Richins Wrote "They Picked The Wrong One" — Who Should Be Worried?
Before the judge even handed down life without parole, Kouri Richins was already making promises from inside her jail cell. She wrote that she'd "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She wrote "they picked the wrong one." She wrote "they haven't seen anything yet."Then she stood in a courtroom and told her sons — children she hasn't seen or spoken to si
Is Kouri Richins' Promise To Her Sons Just Courtroom Theater?
Kouri Richins looked at her three boys during sentencing and told them she'd fight her conviction "no matter how long it takes." She called the verdict an "absolute lie." She said "we're going to make this right." But her own children had already told the judge exactly what they wanted — their mother locked away forever. The oldest, now thirteen, said he's afraid she'd come after him and his brot
What Did Kouri Richins' Body Language Really Say at Her Sentencing?
She didn't have to speak to tell the room who she is. Kouri Richins' face told the story before she ever opened her mouth — and a psychotherapist with thirty years of experience is here to translate.Shavaun Scott joins this three-part deep dive into every behavioral moment of the Kouri Richins sentencing. The contempt visible during victim impact statements from Eric's family and the children who
Why Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Children She's Coming Home?
Three boys just told a judge they're afraid of their mother. They asked for life without parole. They described a childhood they don't miss. And then Kouri Richins stood up and promised those same boys she'd be back.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the 45-minute sentencing speech that told three traumatized children their reality is wrong, their feelings have been manufactured by the fam
Why Did Kouri Richins Only Show Grief When the Room Was on Her Side?
The split happened in plain view. While Eric's family described devastation — and while her own sons described survival — Kouri showed contempt. The instant the defense stepped in with praise, loyalty, and proclamations of innocence, the tears started flowing.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the behavioral flip and what it reveals about Kouri's psychological wiring. She breaks down the clin
Why Did Kouri Richins Show Disgust While Her Own Children Asked the Judge for Help?
Her youngest wants her in prison forever. Her middle child said she never apologized for anything. Her oldest said he doesn't miss her and fears what she'd do if she got out. All three wrote statements that were read by their therapists because they cannot be in the same room with her. And Kouri Richins sat at the defense table making faces.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the behavioral
Why Did Kouri Richins Go After Every Person Connected to This Case From Behind Bars?
The sentencing memo in the Kouri Richins case doesn’t just recommend life without parole. It documents a campaign. According to prosecutors, every person who stood between Kouri and what she wanted got a file opened on them — from her jail cell, through proxies, while she prepared a courtroom speech about love.The detective who investigated her got a fake dating profile posted in his name. The si
How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Kids Asked the Court To Keep Her Away?
Every one of those boys said the same thing: keep her away. Their words were read by therapists because the children couldn’t stand in that courtroom. They described locked doors, animals left to die, a brother smuggling food to a sibling isolated in his own bedroom, and years of being afraid.Kouri Richins heard all of that and then delivered a forty-minute speech that didn’t acknowledge a single
How Did Kouri Richins Ignore The Pleas Of Her Chidlren?
Kouri Richins had forty minutes. She used every one of them. She talked about herself. She talked about her innocence. She told her sons to "be like your dad" and to "ignore the noise." She told them their memories were "an absolute lie" and to distrust the people keeping them safe. In forty minutes, she never once acknowledged what her children had just told the court through three therapists wh
Did Kouri Richins Just Tell Her Scared Kids She’s Coming to Get Them?
Every one of Kouri Richins’ children asked a judge for the same thing: keep her away from us. Her response was to look into that courtroom and promise she’s on her way back.The boys’ statements described a house where bedroom doors were locked from the outside, where a brother had to smuggle meals to a sibling shut away in his room, where animals starved and froze because the only adult present c
Why Are Kouri Richins’ Own Kids Begging the Judge to Never Let Her Out?
Three children wrote down what living with Kouri Richins was actually like — and then asked their therapists to say it out loud because they still cannot face her themselves.What came out in that courtroom wasn’t legal argument. It wasn’t prosecution theory. It was the unfiltered testimony of boys who described locked bedroom doors, starving animals, a brother smuggling food to a sibling who’d be
Why Did Kouri Richins Spend 40 Minutes Talking to Sons Who Don't Want to Hear From Her?
Kouri Richins stood at a podium in a lime-green jail uniform and handcuffs and delivered a forty-minute prepared statement addressed to three boys who weren't in the courtroom — and who, through their therapists, had just told a judge they're scared of her and want her locked up forever.She didn't use those forty minutes to address what her children described. Not the locked rooms. Not the dead a
Kouri Richins Sentenced After Guilty Verdict | Kouri Richins Case
Kouri Richins has been sentenced to Life Without Parole after being convicted in the murder of her husband, Eric Richins, who died from fentanyl poisoning inside the couple’s Kamas, Utah home in March 2022.She faces consecutive sentences for the other four charges.The trial centered on prosecutors’ claims that Richins poisoned Eric after secretly taking out life insurance policies, facing severe
Kouri Richins Defense Finally Exposed — What They Said Before the Sentence Dropped
By the time you reach a sentencing hearing, the jury has already spoken. The defense knows that. Which makes what Kouri Richins' attorneys said in that courtroom even more worth paying attention to.Attorney Wendy Lewis led the charge, and she didn't soften a single word. Her argument on remorse was blunt: you cannot ask someone to be sorry for something they insist they didn't do. Lewis told the
After the Verdict, Eric Richins' Family Speaks
Courts deal in evidence. Families deal in loss. Sentencing is where those two things finally share a room.Kouri Richins has been sentenced to [INSERT SENTENCE] for the murder of her husband Eric — killed, prosecutors argued, with a deliberate overdose of fentanyl slipped to him in March 2022 while their children were in the house. A jury agreed. A judge has now put a number on it.But before that
What Eric Richins Secretly Built to Protect His Sons — Without Kouri Knowing
Eric Richins knew. He knew his marriage was dangerous. He knew his wife's business was collapsing. He knew she needed him dead more than she needed him alive. So he went to divorce attorneys. He went to estate planners. He removed Kouri from his will. He cut her from his life insurance. He built a trust she didn't know about — designed specifically to protect their three sons from the woman he'd
Kouri Richins: Guilty on Every Count. The Mask Is Off.
She bowed her head when the verdict was read. Five charges. Five guilty. A juror was wiping his eyes. Another stared directly at her. Three hours of deliberation after thirteen days of trial. In the final episode of our definitive five-part Kouri Richins series, we cover the reckoning — the trial, the zero-witness defense, Bloodworth’s devastating closing, and the three-hour verdict that ended th
Kouri Richins Couldn’t Spell Fentanyl But Used It to Kill
She searched “if someone is poisned what does it go down on the death certificate as.” Not overdosed. Poisoned. Her own word. In part four of our five-part definitive series, we lay out the digital evidence and public performances that sealed Kouri Richins’ conviction. Over 800 deleted text messages. A new phone loaded with searches about fentanyl dosages, prison conditions, and whether the FBI w
Kouri Richins Hired a Locksmith Two Days After Eric Died
Unlock at 3:06 a.m. Speaker at 3:08. The 911 call two minutes later. That’s the timeline. No frantic calls to family. No calls to friends. Just a precise, measured sequence that suggests a woman who knew exactly what she was about to report. In part three of our five-part definitive series, we walk through the night Kouri Richins killed her husband with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule and the first
Kouri Richins Bought Fentanyl at a Gas Station. Twice.
She bought the pills. She asked for stronger ones. She asked for the strongest thing available. And then she put them in her husband’s drink. In part two of our definitive five-part Kouri Richins series, we follow the fentanyl from a gas station in Draper, Utah, to Eric Richins’ bloodstream. The procurement chain ran through Carmen Lauber, Kouri’s housekeeper, who testified she bought drugs at Ko
Kouri Richins: The Prenup Clause That Made Murder Pay
A prenuptial agreement. One clause. If Eric Richins died while they were married, Kouri would inherit everything. Divorce meant walking away with nothing. Death meant millions. That single clause in a document signed on their wedding day became the engine of a murder that a jury needed less than three hours to see through. In this first installment of our five-part definitive series, we examine t
Three Innocent Children that the Kouri Richins’ Verdict Can't Fix
The verdict is in. Kouri Richins is guilty of charges that she poisoned her husband with fentanyl. But this part that still lands like a gut punch — She wrote a children's book about his death and went on television to promote it. The jury took three hours. Three hours to convict her on all counts. Apparently, they didn't need much time.But verdicts don't raise kids.Her three sons were 9, 7, and
Kouri Richins: What Eric Knew — and What It Cost Him
Eric Richins knew something was wrong. He documented it. He restructured his estate, told his attorney he was protecting his children from his wife, and took legal steps to put his fear on the record. And then he died in that house anyway.This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke examine the human story underne
Eric Richins' 44th Birthday, a Sentencing Date, and the Verdict His Family Fought For
Eric Richins restructured his estate roughly eighteen months before he died. He told his attorney exactly why: to protect his children from his wife. He knew something was wrong. He documented it. He took legal steps to protect the people he loved. And then he died in that house anyway.A jury just said his wife killed him.This week on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down the full weight of wh
Eric Richins' Family, the Children's Book, and the Questions That Survive the Verdict
The jury came back guilty. For the family of Eric Richins, that word carries everything they fought for over four years of investigation, hearings, and trial. And yet the questions that settle into a family after a verdict like this — they don't disappear when the gavel comes down.This week on Hidden Killers, we look at what the conviction of Kouri Richins means for the people who were closest to
Kouri Richins Convicted: The Appeal, The Psychology, and What Happens to the Story Now
This channel has covered every turn of the Kouri Richins case — from the night Eric died to the arrest, the pretrial hearings, and the three-week trial that just ended with a unanimous guilty verdict on all five counts.Now we're looking at what comes after.If you've followed this case from the beginning, you already know the facts. What this episode digs into is the question the facts keep pointi
Eric Richins Got Justice — What Kouri's Conviction Means for His Kids and What Comes Next
Eric Richins knew. He restructured his estate. He sat across from his attorney and said, explicitly, that he needed to protect his children from their mother. He put that fear into legal documents. He took every step available to him. And then he died in that house anyway.A Summit County jury just told the world what happened to him.Kouri Richins has been found guilty of his murder. Fentanyl. No
Kouri Richins Guilty: Eric Saw It Coming — So Did Bobby Curley. Neither One Survived It.
Eric Richins told people after Valentine's Day 2022 that he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He had been violently ill. He said it out loud to people he trusted. Prosecutors say Kouri made him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl approximately a month later. He was dead by morning.Bobby Curley grabbed a nurse's arm in a hospital on September 22, 1991. Weak, barely
Kouri Richins Convicted: What the Appeal Could Argue — and What Eric Never Knew Was Happening
Eric Richins signed mortgage papers with his wife. He called his friends to tell them about the new house. He had no idea what she was allegedly planning. That's the Melanie McGuire case — but the behavioral pattern it documents sits at the center of what prosecutors argued was happening inside the Richins marriage, and it's where this week's Hidden Killers' Week in Review begins.Kouri Richins al
Kouri Richins Guilty: Eric Saw the Pattern First — The Financial Record That Explains Everything
Eric Richins saw it before anyone else did. Eighteen months before he died, he quietly visited an estate attorney. He didn't file charges. He didn't go public. He simply had his estate restructured to protect his children — and he specifically told that attorney about recently discovered and ongoing abuse and misuse of finances. He stayed in the marriage. He said nothing. According to prosecutors
Kouri Richins Guilty: Eric's Warning, the Forged Signature, and the Verdict His Family Deserved
Eric Richins told multiple people he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He said it eighteen days before he died. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the expert analysis that surrounded the final days of the Kouri Richins trial tells the story of how that warning — and everything that came after it — became the foundation of a guilty verdict on all counts.Before the jury returned
Kouri Richins Guilty: The Evidence That Built the Case — and the Defense That Never Answered It
For the people who loved Eric Richins and followed every day of this trial, the guilty verdict on all counts was the outcome the evidence demanded. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we go back through the case that got there — and the defense strategy that chose not to answer it.Tony Brueski walks through the full prosecution record: the $4.5 million in alleged debt that prosecutors sa
Kouri Richins Guilty — The Week That Brought Eric Richins Justice
The verdict is in. Kouri Richins has been found guilty on all counts in the murder of Eric Richins. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, we look back at the final days of trial that brought the jury to that conclusion in three hours.On Day 13, the defense rested without calling a single witness. Three were reportedly ready. The decision came after a one-hour recess following the judge's d
Eric Richins' Five Children Are Living This — What the Evidence Reveals About Their Mother
At the center of every document filed, every exhibit entered, every expert analysis offered in this case is a fact that doesn't change: Eric Richins is gone, and five children are living in the aftermath of what allegedly happened to their father. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the focus is on understanding — as completely as possible — the woman those children called their mother.T
Kouri Richins Update: Her Story Is Collapsing — The Pattern of Wives Whose Secrets Don't Stay Buried
Kouri Richins is watching her story fall apart in real time. Every day in Utah, another witness testifies. Another text message is read. Another crack in the foundation.This is Part 5 of The Perfect Wife — examining why the long con always ends.Denise Williams held hers together for seventeen years.Mike Williams disappeared December 2000. Duck hunting trip. Official story: drowned, eaten by allig
Post-Verdict Listener Q&A — The Questions That Hit Different Now That She's Going to Prison
You've followed every day of this trial. You know the testimony, the texts, the timeline. And when the verdict came in, it probably didn't feel like a finish line — it felt like a different kind of question mark. This listener Q&A is built for you. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke go straight to the things that the verdict didn't resolve: whether Carmen Lauber's immunity deal was justice or a de
Kouri Richins Book "Are You With Me": Why Wives Who Kill Write Themselves as Victims
After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" About a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She promoted it on morning television. Played the grieving widow.Prosecutors say she killed him with fentanyl.This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the narrative.Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011, she wrote "How to
Kouri Richins: The Marriage Behind the Murder — The Psychology the Trial Couldn't Explain
The trial answered the legal questions. This conversation answers the human ones.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a full examination of what the Kouri Richins case reveals about life inside a relationship with someone operating with narcissistic or borderline personality traits — told across the complete arc of that relationship. The beginning, where the trap
Kouri Richins: How It Ends — The Exit, the Escalation & What Comes After
Prosecutors say Eric Richins was quietly consulting divorce attorneys and adjusting his estate before he died. He was, by all indication, trying to find a way out. According to the prosecution, that's when everything changed.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what the final phase of a relationship like this looks like — what triggers the end, how someone
Kouri Richins: Inside the Marriage — Gaslighting, Control & the Slow Erosion of Eric Richins
Prosecutors described a marriage where Eric Richins was systematically deceived — financially, emotionally, and ultimately fatally. But the machinery behind that kind of sustained deception doesn't switch on all at once. It builds slowly, over years, in ways the person experiencing it can feel but often can't name.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what w
Kouri Richins: How the Relationship Began — The Psychology of the First Trap
Before the fentanyl. Before the alleged forgeries. Before the affair. Before any of what prosecutors say happened in the Kouri Richins case — there was a beginning. A courtship. A relationship that by all outward appearances looked like love.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what that beginning likely looked like through the lens of narcissistic and bord
Kouri Richins: The Grief Book Interview — What a Psychotherapist and FBI Expert See Now
Kouri Richins sat on camera before her arrest and promoted a children's grief book she paid someone else to write. She talked about loss, healing, and her children. A jury has since convicted her of murdering the man the book was about.Tony Brueski brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to examine that interview with everything the jury now kno
Kouri Richins Boyfriend Texts: "If I Was Divorced, Would You Marry Me?" — The Premeditated Wife Pattern
Kouri Richins allegedly texted Josh Grossman while married to Eric: "If I was divorced right now and asked you to marry me tomorrow, you would?"She had a secret $250,000 HELOC Eric didn't know about. Prosecutors say she searched for fentanyl while he was still alive.This is Part 3 of The Perfect Wife — examining the premeditated mind. Women living two complete lives. The wife their husbands knew.
Kouri Richins Guilty: The Full Trial — Prosecution, Defense, and What Comes After
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down everything that happened inside that Summit County courtroom — from the prosecution's circumstantial case built around motive and money, to a defense that called zero witnesses and still made the state fight for every inch, to the appel
Kouri Richins Convicted: The Rulings Inside This Trial That Could Fuel an Appeal
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Her defense team preserved a record throughout this trial that now becomes the foundation for what comes next. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down what's in it.The video of investigators telling Carmen Lauber they needed details to convict Kouri — the jury saw it and conv
Kouri Richins: What the Financial Record Says About Who Was Really in Control
The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial has argued that Eric Richins was a financially controlling husband — that Kouri felt trapped, unsupported, and forced to act independently because he never believed in her. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to all charges.This episode goes directly at that narrative — and at the documented evidence that exists on the other side of it.According to f
Kouri Richins Defense: Zero Witnesses, One Conviction — What Went Wrong
The Kouri Richins defense team called no witnesses, presented nothing from their side, and lost. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down exactly what happened.The jury watched investigators on tape telling Carmen Lauber they needed details to convict Kouri — and convicted anyway. Detective O'Driscoll confirmed four years of inves
Kouri Richins Guilty: The Prosecution's Case — What Worked and Why
Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down the prosecution's case piece by piece — what the jury responded to and what this conviction tells us about the strength of circumstantial evidence when it's built with precision.Eric Richins told people he thought his wife was trying to
Kouri Richins: Eric Told Friends She Might Be Poisoning Him — Bobby Curley Told a Nurse. Both Men Died.
Eric Richins told people close to him after Valentine's Day 2022 that he thought Kouri might be poisoning him. He'd become violently ill out of nowhere. According to testimony, the concern was real.A month later, prosecutors say Kouri made him a Moscow Mule laced with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. He was dead by morning.This is Part 2 of The Perfect Wife — examining victims who knew and
Kouri Richins Verdict: Guilty — Every Count, Every Detail Explained
The verdict is in. Kouri Richins has been found guilty on all five counts: aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, two counts of insurance fraud, and forgery. Eight jurors deliberated for three hours after three weeks of testimony from forty-two prosecution witnesses. The defense called none.This channel exists to cover every dimension of this case — and the verdict episode delivers exact
Kouri Richins Faces Jury’s Decision | Kouri Richins Trial
The verdict comes in from the jury.Complete coverage of the State of Utah v. Kouri Richins. She's accused of murdering her husband Eric Richins by poisoning him with fentanyl in their Kamas, Utah home in March 2022. The prosecution alleges Kouri researched untraceable poisons, secretly increased Eric's life insurance to $1.9 million, and laced a Moscow Mule she made for her husband on the night h
Eric Richins Deserved Better: The Case His Family Refused to Let Go
Eric Richins died on March 4, 2022. He was 39 years old. His family was told it was an overdose. For months, it could have ended there — if they had accepted it and moved on. They didn't. They hired a private investigator. They kept pushing. They are the reason this trial exists.That thread runs through everything examined in this episode.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and behavi
Kouri Richins Moscow Mule: The Caretaker Killer Pattern Exposed — Why Wives Poison What They Pour
Moscow Mule. Eric's favorite. Kouri made it for him on March 4, 2022.According to prosecutors, she put fentanyl inside. According to the charges, she murdered her husband with his favorite drink, made by his wife's hands, while their children slept nearby.This is the caretaker pattern. And Kouri Richins isn't the first wife to use it.Stacey Castor killed two husbands with antifreeze in Syracuse.
Brad Bloodworth: Final Rebuttal Before Jury Deliberates | Kouri Richins Trial
Brad Bloodworth gives the prosecution's rebuttal and Judge Mrazik gives the jury final instructions before deliberations.Complete coverage of the State of Utah v. Kouri Richins. She's accused of murdering her husband Eric Richins by poisoning him with fentanyl in their Kamas, Utah home in March 2022. The prosecution alleges Kouri researched untraceable poisons, secretly increased Eric's life insu
Kouri Richins: Before the Verdict — Every Question, Every Answer
The Kouri Richins murder trial is over. Both sides have rested. The jury is about to deliberate on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery in connection with the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric Richins.This is the complete pre-verdict listener Q&A — three full conversations covering everything this trial produced. A friend's testimony that Kouri sa
Wendy Lewis: Defense Makes Final Appeal to Jurors | Kouri Richins Trial
Complete coverage of the State of Utah v. Kouri Richins. She's accused of murdering her husband Eric Richins by poisoning him with fentanyl in their Kamas, Utah home in March 2022. The prosecution alleges Kouri researched untraceable poisons, secretly increased Eric's life insurance to $1.9 million, and laced a Moscow Mule she made for her husband on the night he died.Kouri Richins has pleaded no
Brad Bloodworth: Prosecutor’s Final Strike Part 2 | Kouri Richins Trial
Brad Bloodworth, chief prosecutor for Summit County, serves up closing arguments in the Kouri Richins trial.Complete coverage of the State of Utah v. Kouri Richins. She's accused of murdering her husband Eric Richins by poisoning him with fentanyl in their Kamas, Utah home in March 2022. The prosecution alleges Kouri researched untraceable poisons, secretly increased Eric's life insurance to $1.9
Kouri Richins Won't Testify — Defense Rests, Verdict Window Opens
The defense has rested in the Kouri Richins murder trial. She did not testify. Her attorneys closed their case after three weeks of cross-examination, mistrial motions, and an aggressive challenge to the credibility of the prosecution's star witness — housekeeper Carmen Lauber, who testified she bought fentanyl on Kouri's behalf.But there's no physical drug evidence. No fentanyl found in the home
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