After the Guilty Verdict: What's Next for Kouri Richins — and What the Evidence Revealed About Who She Really Is
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A Utah mother of three was just convicted of murdering her husband by slipping five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into his drink. But the story of Kouri Richins has never really been about the crime alone. It's been about what she did after.
She wrote a children's grief book. Dedicated it to the husband prosecutors say she poisoned. Went on television to talk about healing. Told her housekeeper — the same woman who allegedly sold her the pills — that her husband died of a brain aneurysm. And when she was arrested, she didn't crumble. She said, on camera: "This means war."
A jury just answered that declaration. Unanimously. In three hours.
What makes this verdict remarkable isn't the speed — it's what the jurors said afterward. They didn't want to find her guilty. They walked in hoping the defense's version would hold up. They were, in one juror's own words, "really sad" that it didn't. Eight people who wanted to believe her couldn't find a single reason to.
On True Crime Today, we're breaking down what comes next. The appeal process — and the significant legal obstacles standing in its way. The separate trial on twenty-six financial felony charges that hasn't even been scheduled yet. And the psychological portrait of someone who responds to every crisis in this story the same way: by constructing a new narrative. A grief book before arrest. A scripted six-page letter from jail after. When the story needs protecting, she writes.
Sentencing comes May 13th — what would have been Eric Richins' 44th birthday. Three boys will grow up knowing both versions of this story. The one their mother told them, and the one a jury just confirmed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.6 | For three weeks, she sat at that defense table, kind of like a statue. |
| 0:13.1 | That's not editorial. |
| 0:14.8 | That's the word a juror used. |
| 0:17.4 | A juror who watched Corey Richens every single day of that trial told ABC's Good Morning |
| 0:22.6 | America that Corey barely moved, barely reacted. |
| 0:26.2 | A small smile here and there when she leaned in towards her attorneys. |
| 0:31.1 | Otherwise, nothing as far as what she saw. |
| 0:34.1 | No fear, no grief, no visible scene where the performance ended and the real person began. |
| 0:39.1 | 42 witnesses, three weeks of testimony about secret insurance policies, a housekeeper who sold her pills at a gas station. |
| 0:47.6 | Phone searches for how much fentanyl it takes to kill a man. A statue? |
| 0:53.9 | And then Judge Richard Marzick read the word guilty. |
| 0:58.6 | Corey Richens bowed her head, started breathing heavily. |
| 1:04.2 | So here's where this is actually added, and here's where this is actually about, |
| 1:07.8 | not the verdict herself, because you already know the verdict. |
| 1:11.6 | But what broke in that moment? What is the lie finally catching up with her? |
| 1:17.6 | Was it something closer to relief? The performance finally over? Or was it neither of those things? |
| 1:23.6 | Was it simply the recognition that the story needed a new chapter? |
| 1:28.6 | That she was already thinking about how to write it. Because if you've been paying attention to |
| 1:33.3 | Cory Richens, you know one thing above everything else. This woman does not stop writing. |
| 1:39.0 | You have to understand what she built before you can understand what a guilty verdict means to |
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