Kouri Richins Children's Book: She Played the Grieving Mother on TV — While Charged With His Murder
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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Summary
After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote "Are You With Me?" A children's book about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Played the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.
Prosecutors say she caused it.
This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the story.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011, she wrote "How to Murder Your Husband." An essay discussing methods, weighing options. She wrote: "If the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don't want to spend any time in jail."
Seven years later, she shot her husband Daniel twice in the chest.
The essay was excluded from trial. The jury convicted her anyway.
She bought a gun with traceable methods. Drove her own minivan to the crime scene. Published her murder blueprint under her real name.
The narcissist can't stay invisible. Staying invisible requires believing someone else is watching. And the narcissist can't truly believe anyone else matters.
Kouri wrote herself as the healing mother. Nancy wrote herself as the murder expert. Both stepped into spotlights that exposed them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | After Eric Richens died, Corey wrote a children's book, |
| 0:11.0 | Are You With Me, the title? |
| 0:13.3 | About a father who dies and becomes a firefly, watching over his children from above. |
| 0:20.2 | A story about grief and healing and love that transcends death. |
| 0:26.7 | She went on morning shows to promote it. |
| 0:28.3 | She sat across some hosts, talked about loss, about resilience, |
| 0:31.9 | about helping her children through the hardest time of their lives. |
| 0:35.9 | Writing the book, what an exercise it was |
| 0:39.4 | and working through her grief. |
| 0:42.1 | She performed the grieving widow |
| 0:43.5 | on national television, selling a book |
| 0:45.3 | about the death she allegedly caused. |
| 0:52.1 | A book that she actually didn't write, |
| 0:55.3 | but she performed that she did. |
| 0:58.8 | And here's what gets me about the whole damn thing. |
| 1:01.3 | She put herself at the center. |
| 1:03.2 | Not Eric, not the children, her. |
| 1:06.8 | The devoted mother helping a family heal. |
| 1:09.8 | The author was something meaningful to say about loss. |
| 1:12.6 | The woman who found a way to turn tragedy into inspiration. |
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