Eric Faddis: What's Really Going to Decide the Kouri Richins Trial
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down with Tony Brueski for an extended Hidden Killers conversation that goes deeper into the Kouri Richins murder trial than anything you'll hear in a standard legal segment.
Three issues. Three conversations. Each one with real stakes.
The defense's drug use theory has been gutted by a judicial ruling, contradicted by the people who knew Eric best, and undermined by forensic toxicology. Is there anything left — or is this a strategy built on hope?
The prosecution's key witnesses both have immunity deals. Both changed their stories. A detective's recorded words were turned against the state mid-trial. Can a murder conviction survive a drug chain where every link had something to gain?
And the deception record. Phone searches. Memes. A jailhouse letter. A forged signature. Three days after Eric died, Kouri was texting for more drugs. How does a defense attorney walk a jury back from a client who left a paper trail like this?
Eric Faddis answers every one of these questions with the clarity of someone who's done this job — from both chairs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to another hour of live true crime coverage every morning, 11 a.m. Central on YouTube. |
| 0:15.0 | If you're missing it, if you don't get your true crime cup of coffee in the morning anymore over on court TV. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm just saying, |
| 0:22.9 | daughter. |
| 0:23.4 | We're here for you every day at 11 a.m. Central. |
| 0:27.6 | So please do come join us. |
| 0:30.5 | We got a lot to get through today |
| 0:31.8 | talking about the Corey Richens trial. |
| 0:34.1 | The defense is in the Corey Richens trial. |
| 0:36.9 | Trying something bold, putting the victims passed on trial. |
| 0:43.3 | They're suggesting Eric Richens had a history with drugs and that the fentanyl that killed him may have come from somewhere other than Corey. |
| 0:52.1 | Despite all the evidence that shows that it came from a chain of Corey's |
| 0:55.1 | housekeeper to the drug dealer. Anyway, that's something else, according to them. His best friend |
| 1:01.0 | and business partner sat on the witness stand and said he'd never seen Eric touch anything. |
| 1:07.5 | Joining us to discuss, as always, my co-host, Robin Drake, Chief of the Counterintelligence |
| 1:12.2 | Behavioral Analysis Program, former FBI. And Eric Fattis is with us, former prosecutor and defense |
| 1:18.4 | attorney. Eric, let's dive in here. The defense wanted to put Eric's alleged high school drug |
| 1:24.4 | use in front of the jury. Let's put it in perspective here. |
| 1:29.5 | High school would have been the late 90s for Eric. |
| 1:31.7 | That's how far back we're talking here. |
| 1:37.4 | The judge said, no, we're not going to go back to the late 90s when the original screams were out and whatever you were doing around a bonfire is evidence that gets into this |
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