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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Kouri Richins Case COLLAPSING? Key Witness Recants Fentanyl Story

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A major shock just hit the Kouri Richins murder case—and it’s not coming from the defense. It’s coming from the prosecution’s own key witness, who now says he never sold fentanyl to anyone connected to Richins. That single statement might be enough to crack the entire case wide open.

In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we dig into the explosive new affidavit from Robert Crozier, the alleged drug dealer the state claims supplied the fentanyl that killed Eric Richins. In newly filed court documents, Crozier swears under oath that he didn’t sell fentanyl—he sold oxycodone. And that one change blows a hole straight through the state’s carefully constructed narrative.

The defense has now filed a motion to reconsider bail and another to compel evidence disclosure, claiming the prosecution knew about this change as far back as April 2025—and said nothing. If true, this isn’t just a twist. It could be a Brady violation—a failure to turn over exculpatory evidence—which would shake the case at its core.

We break down everything: the potential legal fallout, the impact on the upcoming February 2026 trial, and whether prosecutors can still prove murder without being able to trace the weapon—fentanyl—back to the accused. And with no physical pills, no forensic link, and a recanted witness, the state may now be walking into court with a theory that’s missing its spine.

Is this the beginning of the end for the prosecution’s case against Kouri Richins? Or will the state fight back with new evidence to keep their narrative alive?

This one changes everything.

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The weather. Tomorrow, expect a...

0:33.2

Biting cold front.

0:34.5

Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.

0:39.0

The night will be wild and untamed.

0:41.1

Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.

0:44.9

By Monday, temperatures will rise,

0:47.1

slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

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Not in the mood for miserable weather?

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This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

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Here now, Tony Bruske.

1:07.0

There's something especially disturbing about a murder case that hinges not on DNA,

1:12.5

not on surveillance footage, not on a smoking gun, but a chain of assumptions.

1:18.4

The state of Utah versus Corey Richens has always been one of those cases from the very beginning.

1:23.9

Prosecutors told the public that Corey, a real estate agent, and mother of three,

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