COPS: DID MOTHER-IN-LAW HELP "MOSCOW MULE MOM" POISON HUBBY DEAD?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kouri Richins defense team has a strategy to argue every piece of evidence the prosecution has, in an effort to have the case against her dismissed. The prosecutors are working hard to not let that happen during the preliminary hearing. As both sides are preparing to provide the court with their evidence, the prosecution says they need at least three full days to present their case for the judge. Noting the amount of time that will be needed to conduct the hearing, the judge moved the case to June 18 to June 21. The Kouri Richins defense will be to stand up to each piece of evidence and have the case dismissed before ever getting to trial

The judge allows prosecutors to introduce evidence that Kouri looked into getting a divorce and had a law firm on retainer. After receiving a consultation. Kouri allegedly tells her bother that she ended the consultation because she didn't want half of everything and wants to walk away clean and free. However, the court may reasonably infer the opposite is true as it appears Kouri Richins didn't want half of everything. Prosecutors say she wanted everything and to that end, planned to cause Eric Richins' death

The investigation into the death of Eric Richins show text messages between Kouri Richins and her mother, Lisa Darden, show great disdain for Eric on Lisa Darden's part. Investigators include in their report that right before her significant other dies, Lisa Darden is added to her will. The detective writes, based on Lisa Darden’s proximity to her partner’s suspicious overdose death, and her relationship with Kouri, it is possible she was involved in planning and orchestrating Eric’s death."

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:06.0	Breaking news tonight, did a mother-in-law help the so-called Moscow Mule mom poison her hubby dead and did the very same Moscow
0:19.0	mule mom openly state she'd be better off quote with her husband dead just before he is
0:28.2	dead? Good evening I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
0:35.7	Corey Richards calls police to her Utah home where her husband Eric Richards is found
0:40.9	dead in the early morning of March 4, 2022.
0:45.0	Quarry had given Eric a drink, a Moscow mule before bed.
0:48.8	She then spent part of the night with one of her three children who had a nightmare. The night of his death
0:54.1	she said she returned to their bedroom at approximately 3 a.m. He was cold to the
0:59.6	touch and she called 911. Eric had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system,
1:06.0	which had been ingested orally.
1:09.0	Wow, five times a lethal dose in his system that combined with what prosecutors are saying
1:17.6	that the children's book author by the way that book was about her children grieving after the death of their
1:24.9	father, did she actually say her husband would be quote better off dead
1:34.1	before killing him? That's what prosecutors claim.
1:36.0	Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now.
1:40.5	But I want you to see some very unemotional statements made by the so-called Moscow
1:50.4	Mule Mom. What I have kind of found is, as I mentioned,
1:54.5	it's kind of the three C's is how I has visualize it.
1:58.0	And it's, you know, connection, continuity, and care.
2:02.6	And it's, you know, making sure connection is the one,
2:06.4	major one and making sure that their spirit is always alive.
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