Eric Faddis Breaks DownKouri Richins' Finances, Nancy Guthrie's False Accusers, and the Cascio-Jackson Lawsuit
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis covers three major legal developments in one extended interview.
The Kouri Richins trial just heard devastating financial testimony. A forensic accountant told jurors she was $1.6 million in debt the day after Eric Richins died. Her business was "imploding." Checks bounced constantly. The prosecution wants the jury to see financial desperation as murder motive. Eric Faddis explains how that legal argument works, why Kouri's belief about life insurance matters even though Eric had already changed his beneficiaries, and whether 26 fraud charges help or hurt.
In the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation, there's no arrest and no suspect—but innocent people have already been named, detained, and harassed. A man questioned for hours was released with his attorney saying he has "no link whatsoever" to the case. A teacher is being targeted at his home by amateur sleuths. Eric Faddis explains what legal recourse exists when you've been dragged into a high-profile case you weren't part of.
The Cascio family—who defended Michael Jackson publicly for 25 years, testified at his 2005 trial, and wrote a memoir calling him innocent—are now suing, alleging he drugged, raped, and trafficked them since childhood. The estate calls it extortion. A hearing this week determines whether the case goes public or gets sealed in arbitration. Eric Faddis examines the credibility nightmare, the settlement they already collected, and what federal trafficking law requires.
Three cases. Three legal battlegrounds. One conversation covering all of it.
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| 1:01.8 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 1:09.0 | Lots of cases to get through today. |
| 1:12.1 | We're going to start with Corey Richens. |
| 1:28.3 | The prosecution just spent an entire day walking the jury through Corey Richens' finances, and it is ugly, bounced checks, hard money loans stacking up, a real estate business, the forensic accountant straight up called imploding. |
| 1:36.5 | By the day after Eric died, Corey was $1.6 million in the hole. But here's the thing. Being terrible with money isn't the same as killing your husband for it. The prosecution has to connect |
| 1:42.6 | those dots for a jury. |
| 1:46.7 | So how hard is that to do? |
| 1:49.0 | And where can the defense blow holes in it? |
| 1:53.4 | Joining myself and Robin Drake, former head of the FBI's counterintelligence behavioral analysis program program is defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fattis. |
| 2:05.0 | Eric, welcome the forensic accountant testified Corey's net worth around $1.6 million on March 5th, the day after Eric died. |
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