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Corey Richens was arrested a year after her husband passed away.

She has now been charged with his murder and his attempted murder.

And today we are going over a whole bunch of new charges.

And we're going to talk about those.

This case is in Utah. The judge in Utah is a delight.

When I saw the initial headlines, I was like, what in the heck are they talking about?

Because the news often positions her as a

children's book author. Why? Because after her husband died, she wrote a book about grief,

a children's book about grief. She was promoting that book when she was arrested for his murder.

It seems to me in hindsight now that the reason it took so long to arrest her is because it took them quite a while to get into her phone. And the information in her phone is really what solidified the arrest in this case. He died from a overdose of fentanyl. It's being charged and alleged that that was not willfully ingested and that she poisoned him with fentanyl. So for trial, the original indictment had mortgage fraud

claims, forgery claims. Those were severed out of the case. So this indictment has some of that in it.

So when she goes to trial in February 2026, she is going to face aggravated murder charges, aggravated attempted murder charges,

and false fraudulent insurance claim charges that were right around the time of death.

The court took the mortgage fraud and forgery charges for the most part

out of the case that's going to trial. And so we now have a second indictment that is bringing back

in the forgery, the fraud, and some of the other money. So we're going to see that all now because we're going to look

at that new indictment. On November 11, 2021, the defendant wrote check number 241 from her Navy

federal account to her business account for $3,000 at the time. The Navy federal account balance was

zero. The line of credit was extended over $14,000.

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