The Case Against Kouri Richins

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...

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 an...

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...

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 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 behav...

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 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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

Judge Richard Mrazik gives instructions to the jury 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 million, and laced a Moscow...

Three weeks. 42 witnesses. Zero defense witnesses called. And a jury left to decide whether a mountain of circumstantial evidence adds up to proof beyond a reasonable doubt — or just a very compelling story. Kouri Richins is accused of fatally poisoning her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022, allegedly slipping it into a cocktail she made for him at their home near Park City...

After three weeks of testimony about how Eric Richins died, who was in his life, and what was taken from his children — twelve jurors are about to deliberate. Closing arguments will be the last thing they hear before they go into that room. And then it's up to them. Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of the listener Q&A, focused on what the verdict process...

Three weeks. Dozens of witnesses. Financial records, forensic testimony, a letter written from jail, and a woman who allegedly kept Eric Richins' obituary pinned to her mirror. The prosecution rested. Then the defense rested — without calling a single person to the stand. Now twelve jurors are alone with all of it. And Eric Richins' family is watching to see what they do. Former FBI behavioral ana...

The Walk the Dog letter has been in headlines. But headlines don't explain it. This Hidden Killers Week In Review takes the full six-page jailhouse letter and breaks it down the way it deserves—page by page, scheme by scheme—while examining the bigger questions this case forces us to confront. Tony Brueski explains exactly how each section functions. The Ronney witness narrative—the level of scrip...

The Kouri Richins murder trial isn't just about one alleged crime. The testimony laid out week after week tells the story of every person prosecutors say was left in the wreckage—and what each of them allegedly cost. This Hidden Killers Week In Review breaks down the full accounting and examines what the jury is actually absorbing as deliberations approach. A lifelong best friend who lost her enti...

She allegedly asked for "the Michael Jackson drug" after the first attempt failed. She texted that she felt "relieved" after her husband died. She then wrote a children's book about grief. And two of the prosecution's key witnesses flipped their stories after receiving immunity deals. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, defense attorney Bo...

Eric Richins' family didn't need a toxicology report. By multiple accounts, the moment they walked through the door the night he died, something felt wrong about Kouri—her behavior, her affect, the way the scene felt. That instinct cost them years, six figures, and nearly a thousand hours of a private investigator's time before they were heard. Then the defense tried to put Eric on trial. This Hid...

Before Eric Richins died with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, he told his family: if I die, look at her. He was secretly meeting with a divorce attorney. He told her not to contact him by email because he was afraid Kouri would read it. But around the same time, Kouri texted a close friend with her own warning: "If I die, Eric did it." This Hidden Killers Week In Review exami...

If you want the most detailed, grounded breakdown of where the Kouri Richins murder trial actually stands — this is it. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski for a conversation that covers the three pillars of this case in full. The defense's alternative narrative about Eric's drug use — what's left of it, what it was designed to do, and whether it can still...

The Kouri Richins jury doesn't need to wait for closing arguments to form an opinion about who Kouri Richins is. The evidence has already told them. Phone searches for "fentanyl poisoning." Instructions on deleting messages. Memes accessed on her phone minutes after first responders left — one saying "I'm really rich." A jailhouse coaching letter. A forged signature on a life insurance policy. A d...

It's over. The testimony is done. And Kouri Richins never said a word in her own defense. On the final day of testimony in her murder trial, the defense rested without calling a single witness — stunning a courtroom that had expected weeks more of proceedings. Three witnesses were reportedly ready. The trial calendar ran through March 27th. After one hour-long recess with her attorneys, Kouri Rich...

The Kouri Richins prosecution rests on a drug supply chain. But both of the key witnesses inside that chain — Carmen Lauber and Robert Crozier — are testifying under immunity agreements. Lauber's account of which drug she purchased changed after federal charges entered the picture. Crozier contradicted his own recorded statement on the stand. And the defense played tape of a detective's words that...