Kouri Richins: After the Verdict, the Children
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The jury took three hours. But the case that matters most now isn't in any courtroom.
Three boys were 9, 7, and 5 when their father died of a fentanyl overdose in their Utah home. Their mother wrote them a children's book about grief, went on television to promote it, and was arrested for his murder. A jury convicted her on all counts. According to the lead investigator's trial testimony, the book promotion is part of what put investigators back on the case. The story she said she built for her sons may be part of what put her in prison.
On Hidden Killers, we go where the verdict doesn't reach. We examine what betrayal trauma does to children — the specific psychological damage that occurs when the person who hurt you was supposed to protect you — and what the research tells us about kids who lose both parents at once. We look at Susan Wright's children, placed with their father's family after her conviction in 2003, who have never spoken publicly. We look at the Broderick children, who grew up divided on whether their mother should ever be free. And we examine why the Richins case is unlike anything that came before it — because no one else wrote the book.
These boys are preteens now. Living with their father's family. Their father set up a trust for them before he died. He was trying to protect them, without knowing how soon he'd be gone.
They will search their own story for the rest of their lives. The grief book still exists. There is no children's book for what comes next.
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| 0:56.2 | by True Crime Channel 3rd and 4th of October, 2026. This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here |
| 1:05.1 | now, Tony Bruske. There's a children's book sitting somewhere in Utah right now, soft cover, watercolor illustrations, a little boy looking up at the sky, searching for his father in the clouds. |
| 1:19.8 | It's called, Are You With Me? And it was written according to prosecutors and confirmed by 12 jurors by the woman who put five times a lethal dose of |
| 1:29.4 | fentanyl in her husband's drink, or truly a ghostwriter. Now that we know that, little |
| 1:34.1 | nugget of the story, but she claims she wrote it. Those same jurors needed only three hours |
| 1:41.5 | to reach their verdict. Three hours on a three-week trial with 40 witnesses. |
| 1:47.9 | The math there does not suggest a very close call. |
| 1:51.1 | But here's the thing about the Corey Richens case |
| 1:53.0 | that the verdict doesn't settle. |
| 1:54.9 | The verdict tells you what happened. |
| 1:56.6 | It doesn't tell you what to do with the children's book. |
| 2:00.2 | It doesn't tell you what to do with the children's book. It doesn't tell you what to do with the three boys who were read that story and bedtime by the woman who wrote it while their father was already gone. |
| 2:12.2 | It doesn't give them a roadmap. |
| 2:14.7 | No verdict truly does. |
| 2:20.8 | As we get into this, give us your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. Love for you to weigh in there. Corrie Richens was convicted on March 16th |
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