The Case Against Kouri Richins

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• Kouri Richins Told Her Sons to 'Never Apologize' — What Did She Mean? 05.06.2026 17мин

  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. Uncontrolled. The first real emotion of the day.That tells you everything you need to know about what happened next — forty-five minutes at the podium, aimed at three boys who'd asked the judge for life without parole. "Never apologize for something you didn't do." Not comfort. Not a goodbye. An instruction. A seed. A recruitment pitch from a mind that can't stop producing narrative, even when the narrative's only remaining audience is three frightened children.The final episode in a five-part series. The broken brain on full display. And three boys who deserve to be free of it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• A Juror Felt Sorry for Kouri Richins — Until the Evidence Started 04.06.2026 17мин

  "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 under every kind of pressure — from jail cells, on recorded lines, in hidden letters — was told to stop. And what emerged wasn't composure. It was psychological shutdown.The housekeeper. The boyfriend. The forensic accountant. The Google searches projected on a screen. Each one a sealed compartment being opened for public inspection. Each one a piece of the person she'd built herself into being taken apart. And a three-hour verdict that told her the narrative she'd constructed for four years wasn't even a close call. Part four of five.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop — Even With Every Call Recorded? 03.06.2026 14мин

  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 answers is why. Why couldn't Kouri Richins stop managing the narrative even when every attempt to manage it made her legal situation worse? The answer isn't recklessness and it isn't stupidity. It's a reflex — a story-generating mechanism that fires automatically under threat, overriding risk assessment, self-preservation, and rational calculation.Part three of five in a deep dive into the psychology behind Kouri Richins' decision-making. The "Walk the Dog" letter. The fictional novel defense. The fired attorneys. The escalating narratives. And a machine that can't be shut down because shutting it down means facing what's underneath.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• How Did Kouri Richins Write a Grief Book and Mean Every Word? 02.06.2026 16мин

  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. Because Kouri wasn't suppressing tells or fighting micro-expressions. In the psychological compartment she occupied during those fourteen months, she WAS a grieving mother. The compartment where she put fentanyl in Eric's drink was sealed. She wasn't visiting it. And the sincerity that comes from genuinely inhabiting a constructed identity is what makes this kind of psychology undetectable to the people closest to it.Part two of a five-part series breaking down the decision-making of a broken brain. The 911 call. The searches. The book. The television appearance. And the question nobody finds a satisfying answer to: did she believe her own story?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• How Did Kouri Richins Function for 17 Days After What She Did on Valentine's Day? 01.06.2026 20мин

  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. The failure didn't produce guilt. It produced a better plan.This is the first installment of a five-part psychological breakdown of Kouri Richins — from the years before Eric's death through the 45-minute sentencing speech that revealed who she still believes she is. Every episode examines the broken decision-making process behind a different phase of the case. This one starts with the foundation: how a $4.5 million debt, a Park City identity crisis, an affair that doubled as a life rehearsal, and a prenup that made divorce worthless created the conditions for a mind to justify the unjustifiable.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead? 31.05.2026 42мин

  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 prenup made murder the only exit that paid.She secretly purchased $1.9 million in life insurance on Eric's life without his knowledge. She texted her housekeeper about "the Michael Jackson stuff." She was texting Robert Josh Grossmann about marriage while still married to Eric — asking if he'd marry her "tomorrow." Prosecutors laid out an alleged escalation: a poisoning attempt in Greece, a fentanyl-laced sandwich on Valentine's Day that left Eric gasping for air and reaching for his son's EpiPen, and a final dose in a cocktail two weeks later — five times lethal. Eric told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. He was right.The criminal investigation stalled by fall 2022. Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged it on the stand. But the Richins family had already hired Todd Gabler — a 34-year defense investigator who'd never worked the prosecution's side — on a civil matter. What Gabler found in the phone records made staying on the civil side impossible. He identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl before law enforcement did. He searched the Richins home for days after police released the scene, documented everything with body cameras, and found things the initial search missed. Nearly 50 interviews. Multiple vehicles tracked. A body of evidence that broke open an investigation that had gone cold.A jury convicted Kouri on every count in under three hours. The judge sentenced her to life without parole. This is the full story — from the financial implosion to the Moscow Mule — told for the first time with the investigator who was inside it before anyone was charged.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #ToddGabler #FentanylPoisoning #HiddenKill
• Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead? 30.05.2026 56мин

  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 prenup made murder the only exit that paid.She secretly purchased $1.9 million in life insurance on Eric's life without his knowledge. She texted her housekeeper about "the Michael Jackson stuff." She was texting Robert Josh Grossmann about marriage while still married to Eric — asking if he'd marry her "tomorrow." Prosecutors laid out an alleged escalation: a poisoning attempt in Greece, a fentanyl-laced sandwich on Valentine's Day that left Eric gasping for air and reaching for his son's EpiPen, and a final dose in a cocktail two weeks later — five times lethal. Eric told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. He was right.The criminal investigation stalled by fall 2022. Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged it on the stand. But the Richins family had already hired Todd Gabler — a 34-year defense investigator who'd never worked the prosecution's side — on a civil matter. What Gabler found in the phone records made staying on the civil side impossible. He identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl before law enforcement did. He searched the Richins home for days after police released the scene, documented everything with body cameras, and found things the initial search missed. Nearly 50 interviews. Multiple vehicles tracked. A body of evidence that broke open an investigation that had gone cold.A jury convicted Kouri on every count in under three hours. The judge sentenced her to life without parole. This is the full story — from the financial implosion to the Moscow Mule — told for the first time with the investigator who was inside it before anyone was charged.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #ToddGabler #FentanylPoisoning #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #MoscowMule #InsuranceFraud #JusticeForEric
• Who Was Investigating Kouri Richins Before Law Enforcement Even Got There? 30.05.2026 45мин

  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 failing drug tests in court — in the months before and after Eric died. Law enforcement hadn't pulled those records yet. Gabler flagged it and kept going. Nearly 50 interviews. Multiple vehicles tracked. A body of evidence that would eventually help crack open a criminal investigation that had stalled. This is the first time the man who was inside this case before anyone was charged has told the story from the beginning — the call, the records, the moment it became clear what direction the evidence was pointing.That investigation led to a conviction. What came after the conviction is why this story isn't over. Before she was even sentenced, Kouri wrote a message that ended up in the prosecution's filing. She promised to expose everyone connected to the case. She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly wrote a letter from jail telling her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Her own thirteen-year-old told the court he's afraid she'll come for him.Eric Faddis walks through what someone serving life without parole can still do from inside — mail, phone calls, proxies, people on the outside who believe she's innocent. He explains the legal tools available to wall her off and where the gaps still are. Kouri Richins is locked up forever. Her thirteen-year-old is still afraid. That gap between the sentence and the safety is the whole story.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #ToddGabler #LifeWithoutParole #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #WitnessIntimidation #JusticeForEric
• What Did Todd Gabler See in the Kouri Richins Case That Nobody Else Could? 29.05.2026 58мин

  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 that changed Todd Gabler's career. For over a year, Gabler worked independently — pulling the phone records that exposed Kouri's communication pattern with Carmen Lauber, conducting interviews law enforcement hadn't gotten to, tracking vehicles, searching the Richins home for days, and handing over evidence that helped transform a stalled case into an arrest. He did it as a career defense investigator who'd never once worked the prosecution's side — until this case made it impossible to stay neutral.In this complete three-part interview, Gabler sits with Tony Brueski and walks through every stage. How it started. What the evidence revealed. What police missed. What the defense got wrong. What the family went through. And what happens to the investigator who carries a case like this on his back for over a year.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #FentanylPoisoning #PrivateInvestigator #HiddenKillers #UtahMurderTrial #CarmenLauber #TrueCrimePodcast
• Does a Case Like Kouri Richins Ever Let Go of the Investigator Who Cracked It? 28.05.2026 22мин

  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 cane after neck fusion surgery and refused pain medication so he could think clearly on the stand. The one where he spent a year going through a dead man's phone, walking through his house, sitting across from people who watched his marriage disintegrate — and building the case that would ultimately send his wife to prison for life without parole.In the final part of this three-part conversation, Gabler opens up to Tony Brueski about the personal toll. What the verdict felt like. Who Eric became to him. Whether crossing the courtroom for the first time changed how he views everything he's done on the defense side. And whether this is the file that stays open in his head long after the paperwork is done.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #PrivateInvestigator #HiddenKillers #UtahMurderTrial #KouriRichinsVerdict #TrueCrimePodcast #KouriRichinsSentencing
• What Did Todd Gabler Hand Over to Prosecutors That Changed the Kouri Richins Case? 27.05.2026 19мин

  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 had spent that year doing what law enforcement hadn't completed — pulling billing records that exposed Kouri's communication pattern with Carmen Lauber, conducting dozens of interviews, tracking vehicles, and searching the Richins home for days after police released the scene. He documented everything with body-worn cameras. He didn't cut corners. And when the defense tried to discredit his work at trial, his documentation held up under cross-examination.In Part 2 of this three-part interview, Gabler tells Tony what was on those hard drives, what the home search revealed, how he navigated the line between private investigation and criminal case building, and what Eric's family experienced during the months when the only person moving the case forward was someone without a badge.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #SummitCounty #HiddenKillers #PrivateInvestigator #UtahMurderTrial #CarmenLauber #TrueCrimePodcast
• How Did Todd Gabler Go From Civil Case to Building the Case Against Kouri Richins? 26.05.2026 17мин

  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 in near-constant communication with a woman named Carmen Lauber. Lauber was the family's housekeeper. She also had an extensive drug-related criminal history and was testing positive in drug court around the time Eric died. Gabler flagged it immediately and started investigating Lauber before the Sheriff's Office had identified her as relevant to the case.From there, the scope of the investigation expanded in ways Gabler hadn't anticipated. Nearly 50 interviews. GPS tracking on multiple vehicles. An entire side of the family that wouldn't speak to him. And a growing body of evidence that was pulling a career defense investigator across the courtroom for the first time in his life. In Part 1 of this three-part sit-down, Gabler walks Tony through the beginning — how a civil assignment became the foundation of a criminal prosecution.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #ToddGabler #EricRichins #TrueCrime #FentanylPoisoning #PrivateInvestigator #HiddenKillers #UtahMurderTrial #CarmenLauber #TrueCrimePodcast
• Why Is Kouri Richins' Own Son Afraid She'll Come For Him? 25.05.2026 43мин

  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, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly wrote a letter from jail telling her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Then she stood at the podium and told her boys "we're going to make this right" and "don't give up on me."The jury convicted her in less than three hours. The defense called zero witnesses. The judge said she's "simply too dangerous to ever be free." Her children begged the court to keep her locked away forever.Eric Faddis spent years as a felony prosecutor and walks through what a convicted murderer can actually do from inside — the mail, the phone calls, the people on the outside who believe she's innocent and will do things on her behalf. He explains the legal tools available to protect the Richins family and where the gaps still are.On the appeal side, Kouri's defense asked for extra time to file for a new trial. Faddis examines every available lane — the alleged monitoring of attorney-client jail calls, the Crozier recantation, venue, and evidence sufficiency — and tells you which ones have real weight. The attorney-client issue is the one worth watching. The rest face steep odds.Kouri Richins isn't getting out. But her son's fear tells you everything about whether the walls of a prison are enough to contain what she's allegedly willing to do from inside them.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #LifeWithoutParole #WitnessIntimidation #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #KouriRichinsAppeal #JusticeForEric
• What Was Kouri Richins Doing From Her Jail Cell This Entire Time? 24.05.2026 1ч 1мин

  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. Federal firearms charges pursued against Eric's father — for removing his dead son's guns to keep them safe. A marijuana report on Eric's sister. Bar complaints against the prosecutors that went nowhere. According to the memo, not one of those actions had merit. Every one had a name attached to it. Prosecutors called her character "irredeemable." Then she stood in court and preached forgiveness.Cameras caught her scoffing and rolling her eyes while her own sons' impact statements were read. Those boys described locked rooms, dead animals, and taking care of each other because nobody else would. When her family took the podium and called her innocent, the tears showed up instantly — reserved entirely for herself.On what would have been Eric Richins' forty-fourth birthday, Judge Mrazik sentenced her to life without parole. Kouri spoke for forty minutes. She told her boys to "be like your dad" — the man she was convicted of killing. She told them their memories were "an absolute lie." She told them to stop trusting the people keeping them safe. She didn't acknowledge a single word her children said.After the conviction, prosecutors obtained a message Kouri sent to an "admirer" that ended with a winking emoji and five words: "They haven't seen anything yet."One of her sons is nine. His message was shorter. "Once she is gone, I will feel happy."Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #RichinsSentencing #SentencingMemo #LifeWithoutParole #DARVO #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ParkCityUtah #JusticeForEric
• Did Kouri Richins Just Warn Her Kids' New Family In Court? 23.05.2026 1ч 15мин

  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 same thing: keep her away forever. They said they finally feel safe — and that safety vanishes the second she's free.Then Kouri got up and talked for forty minutes. She didn't mention a single word those boys wrote. Not the locked rooms. Not the dead animals. Not the fear. She told them she was coming home. She told them to stop trusting the people who finally gave them stability. She attacked the jury for deliberating less than three hours. She admitted to being a flawed wife but refused to accept the conviction. And she floated a claim that her husband "was in a lot of physical pain" — casting doubt about how he died even after the jury already spoke.Jennifer Coffindaffer and Robin Dreeke have seen this before — someone confronted with the harm they caused and refusing to acknowledge any of it. They break down what's actually driving Kouri's speech, whether her announcement of an appeal carries any real legal weight, and the moment that cut deepest: children begging to be kept safe and a mother promising to come take them back.They also examine the Buster Murdaugh situation heading into Alex's retrial — sources say he's reportedly furious, allegedly calling his father a "selfish old man." Coffindaffer and Dreeke analyze what that fracture means for both sides and why Buster's survival may break the State's own motive theory before the retrial even starts.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #AlexMurdaugh #BusterMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #KouriRichinsSentencing #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #EricRichins
• What Are Kouri Richins' Children So Afraid Of? 23.05.2026 1ч 20мин

  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 — because no one else in that house was doing it. The youngest described being locked in his room over and over, needing his sibling to bring him food, and watching his animals die because nobody cared enough to keep them alive. Every single one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her in prison forever. They said they feel safe now. They said that safety disappears the moment she walks free.Kouri sat there and scoffed. She rolled her eyes while her own children's pain was read into the record.Then she got up and talked for fifteen minutes. About herself. Her marriage. Her love for Eric. She never once mentioned what the boys wrote. She told them to "be like your dad" — the man she was convicted of killing. She hinted his death wasn't what prosecutors say. And she told three terrified children that she's coming home.Tony Brueski goes through every word — the impact statements, Kouri's reactions, and the full speech she gave from that podium. What she said will make your blood boil.FOOTER LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #ImpactStatements #Sentencing #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #UtahCrime #CourtRoom #Justice
• Kouri Richins Wrote "They Picked The Wrong One" — Who Should Be Worried? 22.05.2026 27мин

  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 since April 2024, children whose guardians have cut off all contact, children whose oldest brother told the judge he's afraid of her — that they're "going to make this right."Eric Faddis has seen what convicted people do from behind bars when they refuse to accept the outcome. He walks through what Kouri can actually reach — the mail, the phone calls, the people who still believe she's innocent. He explains the legal tools that exist to wall her off and what each one actually does.He addresses the proxy problem — the family members, the admirers, the people who can carry messages without technically violating a thing. And he connects the twenty-six pending charges in her separate financial crimes case to whether anyone on the outside gains leverage from them.Kouri Richins isn't going anywhere. The question is whether she's done causing damage.Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#KouriRichins #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #TrueCrime #LifeWithoutParole #UtahMurderTrial #ParkCity #WitnessIntimidation #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeToday
• Is Kouri Richins' Promise To Her Sons Just Courtroom Theater? 22.05.2026 15мин

  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 brothers if she ever gets out.So when a woman serving life without parole makes promises from the defense table, what's really happening?Eric Faddis has been on both sides of the courtroom — years as a felony prosecutor, now defending people facing the same charges. He breaks down every legal option Kouri's team could pursue on appeal and gives a straight answer about which ones have any chance and which ones are just words.The defense called no witnesses. Kouri didn't testify. The jury took less than three hours. The question isn't whether she'll fight — it's whether there's anything left to fight with.Footer Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#KouriRichins #EricRichins #FentanylMurder #TrueCrime #LifeWithoutParole #UtahMurderTrial #ParkCity #AppealDenied #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeToday
• What Did Kouri Richins' Body Language Really Say at Her Sentencing? 21.05.2026 56мин

  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 called her "Kouri" and asked for life without parole. The instant shift to tears when her mother, sister, and brother defended her innocence without acknowledging a single word the children said. And the 45-minute speech that denied the verdict, redefined infidelity as love, promised traumatized children she's coming home, and ended with a line coaching them to never back down.This is behavioral analysis at the deepest level — what was visible, what it means clinically, and what it tells us about the woman who produced all of it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #Sentencing #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Psychology #Psychotherapist #BehaviorAnalysis #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice
• Why Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Children She's Coming Home? 21.05.2026 15мин

  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 family protecting them, and the mother they fear is coming home. Shavaun examines the psychology of each major element — the "be like your dad" refrain, the redefinition of mutual infidelity as love that "never failed," the framing of a jury verdict as a personal injustice, and the closing instruction to never apologize for something you didn't do.The question Shavaun answers: was that speech aimed at her children, or was it aimed at herself? And does the answer even matter if those boys hear it?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#KouriRichins #EricRichins #Sentencing #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #CourtRoomSpeech #Psychology #BehaviorAnalysis #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice