Eric Richins
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On March 4, 2022, Kouri Richins called 911 after finding her husband unresponsive in their home in Kamas, Utah. Eric was only 39 years old and appeared healthy before his sudden death. An autopsy later revealed Eric died from a fentanyl overdose estimated at roughly five times the lethal dose. Investigators noted there was no known history of opioid abuse.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of Eric Richins. Police began to zero in on Kouri, and what they uncovered during their investigation included allegations of financial fraud, poisonings, affairs, and life insurance schemes.
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| 0:00.0 | In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered. |
| 0:06.0 | I wonder which emergency. |
| 0:07.3 | We just walked in the door, and there's blood in the foyer. |
| 0:10.6 | For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible. |
| 0:19.0 | A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. |
| 0:23.4 | Blood and water. |
| 0:25.2 | Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:28.4 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:34.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:35.6 | Music Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 412 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 1:11.3 | And this is Mike Morford. |
| 1:13.4 | Morph, what's going on, buddy? |
| 1:15.4 | I'm getting ready for Vegas. This episode is coming out when we're in Vegas. So I am, |
| 1:21.6 | you know, planning that and packing and all that last minute stuff, pretty excited about it. How are you doing? |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, I'm actually in the same boat, man. |
| 1:29.3 | I got Vegas and then I think I've said it on the podcast before, but I have a week at home, |
| 1:34.9 | and then we're heading to Jamaica for my daughter's wedding. |
| 1:39.3 | So we got a lot going on over here at the Ferguson household. |
| 1:42.5 | Getting those frequent flyer miles in. Yeah, no doubt. For a guy who doesn't travel much, it's a lot of travel. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Erica Barnett and Colleen Festman. So great new support. We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so much. That really helps to show out.. For anyone else that would like to help us out, |
| 2:01.7 | head over to patreon.com slash criminology to get started. All right, buddy, let's go ahead and jump into |
| 2:06.6 | this week's case. And we're discussing a case that has been in the news a bit, the March |
| 2:12.3 | 22 murder of Eric Richens. It has sort of been developing, right, going through the legal system. |
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