How Do You Legally Protect Yourself From Kouri Richins Behind Bars?
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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The prosecution's sentencing memo included a message Kouri Richins wrote before the judge even ruled. She said she'd "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She wrote "they picked the wrong one" and "they haven't seen anything yet." This isn't speculation about what she might do — it's what she already put in writing from a jail cell.
Eric Faddis breaks down the legal architecture of protection available to the witnesses, the Richins family, the prosecutors she named, and anyone else in her orbit. He explains the difference between a guardian's decision to cut off contact and a court order that enforces it. He walks through what the Utah Department of Corrections monitors automatically versus what the people on the outside have to actively request.
He addresses the proxy problem — when a convicted person doesn't reach out directly but uses family members, admirers, or third parties who aren't technically violating anything. And he connects the twenty-six pending felony charges in Kouri's separate financial crimes case to whether that caseload gives anyone on the outside additional legal leverage.
Because the sentence is life without parole. But the reach from inside doesn't end at sentencing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:07.0 | Corey Richon spent 40 minutes at her sentencing talking to her sons. |
| 0:13.0 | But buried inside the prosecution's sentencing memo was a different message that she sent to people outside. And the language is hard to read |
| 0:24.5 | any other way. She wrote, I will expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the richons, |
| 0:33.9 | the investigation. She's out for everybody. She wrote, they picked the wrong one. |
| 0:40.0 | She wrote, they haven't seen anything yet. |
| 0:43.2 | Then she's, you're walking away. |
| 0:45.2 | Then she stood up in court and told her sons, |
| 0:47.8 | we're going to make this right. |
| 0:50.1 | And don't give up on me. |
| 0:51.7 | They already did. |
| 0:52.7 | This is the woman serving life without parole. |
| 0:55.2 | She's not going anywhere, but her track record before sentencing includes an alleged letter |
| 0:59.3 | instructing her brothers to testify falsely, accusations of witness intimidation, and a documented |
| 1:04.5 | willingness to keep working the people around her from inside a jail cell. We're talking |
| 1:10.0 | with Eric Fattis, defense attorney and former prosecutor about this case, |
| 1:14.0 | along with my co-host, Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, |
| 1:18.0 | Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. |
| 1:21.4 | When prosecutors put that, they picked the wrong one message into the setting, |
| 1:27.2 | into the sentencing memo. |
| 1:28.9 | I mean, it's not throwaway language here, you know, where she's coming at them. |
| 1:34.3 | They picked the wrong one. |
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