Grief Author Murder Trial: Prosecution’s Closing Claims Kouri Richins Wanted to Leave Eric, Not His Money.
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The prosecution put on an extremely effective closing today, giving a detailed timeline of what Kouri did NOT do to try and save her husband’s life and appealed to the jury’s common sense for why and how they claim Kouri poisoned her husband. As soon as the prosecution finished, the defense called for a mistrial. The judge denied that motion but did agree to re-instruct the jury after prosecutors compared RIchins to a black widow and discussed the facial expressions she was making throughout the trial. Next up, the defense.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Monday, March 16th, and she wanted to leave her husband, but she didn't |
| 0:13.6 | want to leave her husband's money. So she had to kill him. That is the crux of the argument. |
| 0:20.3 | In the closing argument for the prosecution |
| 0:23.5 | in the so-called grief author murder trial. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and |
| 0:29.0 | TJ said grief, author, murder trial. Some call it the poison husband murder trial. But at this |
| 0:35.1 | point, I guess folks know what we're talking about, Roeb. Yes. If you have been following our feed, you are, but at this point, I guess folks know what we talk about, Roots. |
| 0:37.6 | Yes. If you have been following our feed, you are, or at least I'm assuming you are up to |
| 0:43.7 | speed on 35-year-old Corey Richens, whose life is at stake, whose freedom is at stake. She is |
| 0:49.9 | charged with aggravated murder, attempted murder, a bunch of other financial crimes, |
| 0:54.5 | because prosecutors say she poisoned, first she tried to poison her husband and then successfully |
| 0:59.9 | poisoned her husband with fentanyl spiking his Moscow mule. |
| 1:05.1 | These are the closing statements from the prosecution, and they paint a pretty nasty picture. |
| 1:10.2 | You've been back and forth about |
| 1:11.7 | a potential hung jury or one juror who might feel like the defense did a good job poking some |
| 1:18.2 | holes in some of the defense's key witnesses. But after you heard that closing argument by the |
| 1:25.3 | district attorney, you were singing a different tune. Yeah, and then when I hear the defense closing argument by the district attorney, you were singing a different tune. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, and then when I hear the defense closing argument, I'll be back on the other side. |
| 1:33.3 | It's just how it goes. |
| 1:34.2 | It's what lawyering does, and this is what they're supposed to do. |
| 1:38.1 | But I heard a couple of things from him. |
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