Kouri Richins 2026: Eric Said She Might Be Poisoning Him — Bobby Curley Said It Out Loud to a Nurse
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
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Summary
Eric Richins told friends after Valentine's Day 2022 that he thought Kouri might be poisoning him. He'd been violently ill. According to testimony, the concern was genuine.
A month later, he was dead.
This is Part 2 of The Perfect Wife — examining what happens when victims see the truth and still can't escape.
Bobby Curley saw it too. On September 22, 1991, he grabbed a nurse's arm in a hospital bed. Barely able to sit up. But his grip was tight.
"Please help me. My wife is trying to kill me. She is not as she seems."
His heart stopped the next morning.
Joann had been putting thallium in his iced tea for almost a year. Every morning she made his thermos. Every morning he drank it. While his organs failed. While his hair fell out. While doctors ran tests that showed nothing.
Bobby figured it out. He told a medical professional. In a hospital with phones and security and all the resources that should have saved him.
He died anyway.
Two days earlier, Joann won $1.7 million in a lawsuit settlement. She needed him dead before he could touch it.
Knowing isn't enough. Not when the killer is the person who makes your food.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:07.6 | After Valentine's Day of 2022, Eric Richens told friends something that sticks with me. |
| 0:17.0 | He'd been violently ill, the kind of sick that puts you on the bathroom floor, that empties you out completely. |
| 0:23.0 | That makes you wonder if you should go to the hospital or just hope the sweet veil of death slowly falls over you. |
| 0:33.7 | You know, like when you're just so ill, so much in pain, so sick on the bathroom, |
| 0:38.5 | like just that feeling, God, it came out of nowhere. And I hit him like a freight train. |
| 0:47.5 | And afterward, once he could stand up again, once the worst had passed, he said something to people close to him. |
| 0:56.8 | He said it, half laughing. |
| 1:00.1 | The way you say things that are too dark to take seriously or too dark to process because it's just like, there's no way. |
| 1:11.8 | Or is there? |
| 1:15.0 | I think Corey might be poisoning me. |
| 1:16.1 | A joke. |
| 1:17.2 | Kind of. |
| 1:21.0 | The kind of joke that isn't really a joke, |
| 1:24.4 | the kind that comes from a place you don't want to visit. |
| 1:30.8 | I thought you can't fully form a suspicion. You have to wrap in humor because saying it straight would mean you actually believe it. A month later, Eric Richens was dead. |
| 1:40.0 | And I keep coming back to that moment, not the death, the joke. |
| 1:45.7 | The fraction of a second where Eric's brain connected dots, he didn't want to connect. |
| 1:51.4 | When something in him, instinct, observation, pattern recognition, whatever you want to call it, sent up a signal. |
| 2:00.5 | Something is wrong here. Something is wrong here. |
| 2:01.8 | Something is wrong with her. |
| 2:05.4 | And he laughed it off because what else do you do? |
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