The Case Against Kouri Richins
by Hidden Killers Podcast
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Kouri Richins Got WHAT From the Sheriff Indictments?!
Kouri Richins Got WHAT From the Sheriff Indictments?!
About this podcast
Welcome to 'The Case Against Kouri Richins,' your in-depth source for understanding the harrowing and complex tale surrounding the alleged 'Moscow Mule Killer.' This podcast dives into the labyrinth of legal, personal, and psychological elements of a case that has gripped the nation. Each episode, we meticulously unravel the chilling series of events, from the alleged poisoning attempts to the assault on a family member, from the mystery of multiple life insurance policies to the surprising discovery of a changed will. Through interviews, legal documents, and expert commentary, we shed light on the tragedy that befell the Richins family, attempting to answer the crucial question – is Kouri Richins truly guilty? Tune in as we delve into the darkness of deception, betrayal, and murder. 'The Case Against Kouri Richins' – where truth is stranger than fiction
Episodes
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- Kouri Richins Got WHAT From the Sheriff Indictments?! · 35 minKouri Richins is serving life without parole, yet the next fight over her murder conviction reaches beyond her own defense team. Two sheriffs have been indicted on allegations of…
- Prosecutors Say Kouri Richins' Trial Was a Bargaining Chip for What · 19 minKouri Richins' own marketing manager told her on a recorded jail call that he was helping a sheriff's reelection campaign because the lead detective on her case had 'helped…
- Kouri Richins' Ally Said WHAT About The Detective?! · 16 minA recorded jail call connects the pieces of Kouri Richins’ latest post-conviction move — and the trail leads back to someone who sat in her corner at sentencing. Prosecutors are…
- Kouri Richins Heard WHAT From The Judge?! · 20 minKouri Richins appeared by video from the Utah State Prison on August 28. A judge told her she owes $1,369,581 — every dollar she collected from her husband’s life insurance…
- Kouri Richins’ Best Friend Didn’t Know THIS · 21 minEveryone knows Kouri Richins poisoned her husband. The jury said so in three hours. She’s serving life without parole. But the murder conviction is one case. The fraud is…
- What Kouri Richins' Lawyers Filed To Overturn Her Conviction · 29 minKouri Richins wants a new trial. She was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery in the fentanyl poisoning of her husband Eric Richins. She…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Roll Her Eyes As Her Children Described Their Fear? · 54 minKouri Richins sat in a courtroom while her own children — all under fourteen — described locked doors, threats against their pets, and a mother they no longer call "mom." Every…
- What Did Kouri Richins' Own Sons Ask The Judge To Do? · 49 minThe most devastating voices at the Kouri Richins sentencing weren't the lawyers. They were her children. This look back sits with the hearing where three boys, through their…
- What Did Kouri Richins Say After Her Sons Begged To Be Kept Safe? · 1 h 17 minKouri Richins' children asked a judge to keep her locked away forever. Minutes later, she stood up and told them she's coming home. This look back sits with both — the words…
- Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop Performing The Grieving Widow? · 26 minAfter Eric Richins died, Kouri did something that still unsettles people: she put out a children's book about a father who dies and watches over his children, then went on…
- What Comes Next For Kouri Richins After The Guilty Verdict? · 29 minThe jury wanted to find her not guilty. That's not spin — that's close to what the foreperson said. The panel came in sympathetic, hoping Kouri Richins was innocent, looking for…
- Why Do Killers Like Kouri Richins Always Get Caught Eventually? · 38 minEvery long con depends on one thing: silence, forever. And forever turns out to be a very long time. This look back uses the Kouri Richins conviction as the starting point for a…
- How Did Kouri Richins Target A Man Who Had It All Together? · 39 minEveryone assumes the people who end up with a dangerous partner are vulnerable or naive. The Kouri Richins case tells a different story — and this look back sits with the harder…
- What Did Eric Richins Quietly Do When He Found Out About Kouri? · 1 h 0 minThe 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…
- What Did Eric Richins Tell People About Kouri Before He Died? · 49 minEighteen 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…
- Why Did Eric Richins Tell His Family "If Anything Happens To Me, It's Kouri Richins"? · 41 minEric 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…
- Why Did Eric Richins Stay With Kouri Richins When He Knew She’d Kill Him? · 23 minEric 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Call A Scripted Testimony Letter A Novel About A Mexican Prison? · 33 minDeputies 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…
- How Did Kouri Richins Write A Grief Book While She Was The Reason Her Kids Were Grieving? · 37 minShe 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…
- Kouri Richins Told Her Sons to 'Never Apologize' — What Did She Mean? · 17 minThe 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…
- A Juror Felt Sorry for Kouri Richins — Until the Evidence Started · 18 min"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…
- Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop — Even With Every Call Recorded? · 15 minFrom 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…
- How Did Kouri Richins Write a Grief Book and Mean Every Word? · 16 minFor 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…
- How Did Kouri Richins Function for 17 Days After What She Did on Valentine's Day? · 21 minThe 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…
- Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead? · 43 minKouri 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…
- Why Was Kouri Richins Worth More To Herself With Eric Dead? · 57 minKouri 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…
- Who Was Investigating Kouri Richins Before Law Enforcement Even Got There? · 46 minEric 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…
- What Did Todd Gabler See in the Kouri Richins Case That Nobody Else Could? · 58 minThe 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…
- Does a Case Like Kouri Richins Ever Let Go of the Investigator Who Cracked It? · 22 minTodd 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…
- What Did Todd Gabler Hand Over to Prosecutors That Changed the Kouri Richins Case? · 19 minTwo 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…
- How Did Todd Gabler Go From Civil Case to Building the Case Against Kouri Richins? · 18 minKouri 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…
- Why Is Kouri Richins' Own Son Afraid She'll Come For Him? · 43 minHer 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…
- What Was Kouri Richins Doing From Her Jail Cell This Entire Time? · 1 h 1 minKouri 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…
- Did Kouri Richins Just Warn Her Kids' New Family In Court? · 1 h 15 minKouri 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…
- What Are Kouri Richins' Children So Afraid Of? · 1 h 20 minKouri 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…
- Kouri Richins Wrote "They Picked The Wrong One" — Who Should Be Worried? · 28 minBefore 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…
- Is Kouri Richins' Promise To Her Sons Just Courtroom Theater? · 15 minKouri 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…
- What Did Kouri Richins' Body Language Really Say at Her Sentencing? · 56 minShe 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Promise Her Children She's Coming Home? · 15 minThree 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Only Show Grief When the Room Was on Her Side? · 16 minThe 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Show Disgust While Her Own Children Asked the Judge for Help? · 26 minHer 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Go After Every Person Connected to This Case From Behind Bars? · 29 minThe 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…
- How Did Kouri Richins Respond When Her Kids Asked the Court To Keep Her Away? · 21 minEvery 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…
- How Did Kouri Richins Ignore The Pleas Of Her Chidlren? · 1 h 4 minKouri 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…
- Did Kouri Richins Just Tell Her Scared Kids She’s Coming to Get Them? · 49 minEvery 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…
- Why Are Kouri Richins’ Own Kids Begging the Judge to Never Let Her Out? · 29 minThree 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…
- Why Did Kouri Richins Spend 40 Minutes Talking to Sons Who Don't Want to Hear From Her? · 32 minKouri 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 —…
- Kouri Richins Sentenced After Guilty Verdict | Kouri Richins Case · 52 minKouri 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…
- Kouri Richins Defense Finally Exposed — What They Said Before the Sentence Dropped · 1 h 43 minBy 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…
- After the Verdict, Eric Richins' Family Speaks · 1 h 1 minCourts 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…
