How Did One PI Do What an Entire Sheriff's Office Couldn't in the Kouri Richins Case?
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Summit County Sheriff's Office had the case. Todd Gabler had a cane, a laptop, and different rules. By the time he was done — over a year of independent investigation, nearly 50 interviews, GPS surveillance, phone record analysis, and a multi-day search of the Richins home — Gabler had assembled the evidence that helped break open a criminal case law enforcement hadn't been able to move.
This is the complete three-part sit-down with the private investigator at the center of the Kouri Richins prosecution. Gabler walks Tony Brueski through every stage — how a civil assignment became a homicide investigation, what the phone records revealed about Kouri's relationship with the woman prosecutors say bought the fentanyl, why the police investigation stalled and what that cost the Richins family, how the defense tried to discredit him on the stand, and what the case did to a man who'd spent his entire career on the other side.
From the first phone call to the life-without-parole sentence, Gabler tells the story nobody else can tell — because nobody else was this deep inside the case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.1 | Todd Gabbler has been a PI for 34 years. Over 100 homicide cases, every single one for the defense. |
| 0:12.5 | He never sat on the prosecution side of a courtroom until Cory Richens case. |
| 0:18.3 | A month after Eric Richens died, Gavler got a call about a civil matter. |
| 0:22.9 | What he found turned into something the sheriff's office hadn't cracked on their own yet at that |
| 0:29.5 | point in time. And it turned out to be the case that you've been following, I've been following |
| 0:34.5 | the Corey Richens trial. And all that is the big ball of wrong, that is Corey |
| 0:42.1 | Richens. Todd is with us today to have a discussion, to break down all of this from the case |
| 0:51.1 | itself to just how it's affected him as a human being, being around that level |
| 0:58.6 | of chaos to the point that he was. Todd, thank you for joining us. I really appreciate you reaching |
| 1:04.1 | out to me the other day. Totally by surprise, I get a text to me. I'm like, oh, he's the witness that was |
| 1:10.5 | great, the PI who we loved in that case. And I a text to me. I'm like, oh, he's the witness that was great, the PI who we loved in |
| 1:12.9 | that case. And I was going to say, how did you get my number? And I'm like, oh, he's a PI. |
| 1:19.8 | Well, yes, that's a blessing and a curse. I've got everybody's number. Not hard, not hard, really, |
| 1:25.4 | quite honestly. But Todd, I want to just kind of start here before we get into everything. |
| 1:30.2 | You were brought in by the Richens family when they started to realize, you know, there's some things that feel kind of off here. |
| 1:38.4 | Just take us back to that place. |
| 1:40.7 | What were those initial conversations about? |
| 1:43.3 | What were they like? |
| 1:45.4 | What were you brought in to do? |
| 1:50.9 | And then we'll kind of slowly, slowly wade into the pool of wrong that is Corey Richens. |
| 1:58.4 | So as I testified at the trial, I was brought in as an investigator for the estate. |
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