GUILTY: Surprise Late Verdict For Grief Author Kouri Richins
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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A Utah jury of 8 took less than 3 hours to find 35 year old mom of three, Kouri Richins guilty of fatally poisoning her husband Eric with a fentanyl spiked Moscow mule. Closing arguments and jury instructions took most of the day, so it was a surprise when they continued to deliberate into the evening to come back with guilty verdicts on all counts. RIchins’ reaction was palpable as the judge read the the verdicts aloud, her head fell and she never looked up again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.1 | It is Tuesday, March 17th, and a verdict in the so-called grief author murder trial, also known as the poisoned husband |
| 0:24.1 | murder trial. Guilty on all counts, and it didn't even take the jury long to come to a |
| 0:32.1 | decision. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, even if you're not surprised by the verdict, it was a little |
| 0:40.2 | surprising that we got one yesterday. That was what I was going to say. It was fairly shocking. |
| 0:45.4 | This isn't fairly typical. The jury spent all day listening to jury instructions, closing |
| 0:52.6 | arguments that went on for quite some time and a rebuttal. |
| 0:55.7 | So they didn't even get the case until after 3 p.m. local time, 5 p.m. East Coast time. |
| 1:01.5 | A lot of juries might stay for an hour and then head home and start out fresh the next morning. |
| 1:07.5 | This jury powered through, they must have known early on they were on to something. |
| 1:12.6 | That there was a consensus. He gave them the option. Y'all can go home if you want to. We'll check |
| 1:16.7 | back in in a little bit. And we were watching the clock. We were wrapping up our night. |
| 1:21.7 | It was like, yeah, we can go ahead and chill. We had gone on. We had dinner and a movie on. |
| 1:26.1 | We had moved on. I think I might a movie on. We had moved on. |
| 1:29.6 | I think I might have fallen asleep, actually. |
| 1:30.7 | You did. |
| 1:34.3 | And you were like, the jury has a verdict. |
| 1:35.0 | Couldn't believe it. |
| 1:39.1 | So we got the alert that, yes, the verdict was going to be read around 8.30 Eastern time. |
| 1:39.7 | And sure enough, Robswood, it ends up being two and a half, three hours of jury deliberations, |
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