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It is Thursday, March 5th, and what a day in the Cory Richens murder trial, the so-called grief author, murder trial.

The boyfriend of the woman on trial was on the stand yesterday and it was more

emotional than maybe folks had anticipated. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

Ropes, he's the most anticipated witness, right? Even if he might not be the most important.

Yes, I think the most important witness was at the end of last week when we heard from the

housekeeper of Corey Richens, who claims that she secured the fentanyl for Corey, who then,

according to prosecutors, gave it to her husband first in a sandwich.

That was a failed attempt.

And then eventually in a Moscow mule, which

ended up with him having five times the lethal limit of fentanyl in a system. So yes, she was

important, but now we're hearing the why. This is going towards the motive. Prosecutors say

she wanted money and she wanted her man and her man was

Robert Joshua Grossman. Yeah, this is very important as far as establishing motive yet. And I

didn't know. I was expecting, I suppose, more questions. And it seemed like they weren't to get a lot

of stuff in evidence and have him confirm

a bunch of their communications. But this was essentially Robert Joshua Grossman sitting up their

robes looking through a lot of their text messages, but it gave us insight into their relationship

where her head was and where his head was. Yeah, it was really fascinating to watch.

So they put up all of their text messages in the month and then the weeks leading up to Eric Ritchin's death.

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