Grief Author Murder Trial Shocker: The Defense Rests Seconds After Prosecution!
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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After nearly 3 full weeks of testimony, where jurors heard accusations of a poisoned Valentine’s Day sandwich, a fentanyl spiked Moscow mule along with damning internet searches and a heartbroken ex-lover, the defense shocked the courtroom by not calling a single witness. There were hours of back and forth between the attorneys and judge regarding would-be witnesses and testimony, but ultimately Kouri Richins and her defense team felt confident enough in their case to move on to closing arguments, set to begin on Monday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, March 12th, and we just got a major update and maybe even a major shocker in the Cory Richens murder trial, |
| 0:16.4 | a.k.a. the grief author murder trial, aka the poisoned husband murder trial. The major update, |
| 0:25.1 | the prosecution, has rested. And 10 seconds after that, the defense rested without calling a single |
| 0:33.1 | witness. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roeb. Didn't see this one coming. |
| 0:37.0 | We did not see this one coming. In fact, as early as this morning, the defense suggested that they |
| 0:42.9 | had witnesses to call. Specifically, they indicated they had three witnesses that they were going |
| 0:49.3 | to be calling to the stand. So everyone was expecting them to actually put on a defense. Of course, they don't have to. It is the burden. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. And we've certainly seen this in other trials. Dittie's trial probably comes to mind as one of the more recent and big trials where we saw this happen. But we were actually just thinking we were going to hear whether |
| 1:11.8 | or not Corey Richens herself was going to testify, not that no one was going to testify. No, and |
| 1:18.4 | Robs. We had very good reason based on, yes, watching this entire trial, but we had very good reason |
| 1:25.4 | to think this case was going to go on based on what happened |
| 1:28.5 | today in court. The lawyers have been lawyering and arguing over a particular legal issue |
| 1:37.0 | for the past several days, and today they got in court going back and forth over getting |
| 1:41.6 | some particular piece of evidence in. So the jury didn't even hear testimony today. |
| 1:47.4 | They were arguing, quote, outside of the jury. |
| 1:51.0 | Rose. |
| 1:51.5 | So the defense was fighting, fighting to almost begging the judge for certain things to come in |
| 1:59.9 | because they were getting ready to put on their |
| 2:02.5 | case. The judge even looked shocked when they said, we rest. Yeah, everyone was not expecting that |
| 2:10.3 | because, yes, the defense was fiery. They were trying to get in some way, shape, or form, |
| 2:16.6 | some way of getting testimony in that indicated this man |
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