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Kouri Richins Coached False Testimony From Her Jail Cell

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A ghostwritten children’s book. A television appearance with a promo code. A six-page letter from jail scripting false testimony. And an anonymous package from her mother to the sheriff. Kouri Richins didn’t just commit murder — she produced, directed, and starred in a fourteen-month campaign to cover it up. In part four of our definitive series, we examine the digital evidence and public performances that became the prosecution’s most powerful exhibits. 

The Google searches alone read like a confession: lethal fentanyl dosages, poisoning on death certificates, luxury prisons, FBI jurisdiction, life insurance timelines. She deleted 800 messages and switched phones, but her new device became the prosecution’s greatest gift. Meanwhile, she was promoting a $2,500 ghostwritten picture book about her dead husband on morning television and telling her brother it was practice “for the big one.” This is the story of a cover-up so brazen it became its own evidence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

0:03.2

Here now, Tony Brewski.

0:07.0

Here's a Google search typed on Cory Richon's phone sometime in the spring of 2022.

0:12.4

Mispelled because the woman who poisoned her husband apparently couldn't spell the substance that she used to do it.

0:20.6

What is a least lethal dot dose, dot of, dot, and then I miscorrectly spelled fentanyl. Yeah. That's what appeared in her phone. Dot between word fannel spelled wrong and if that were the

0:42.4

only search you might generously argue it was more of a curiosity right you may be a woman processing her husband's death trying to understand what happened to

0:57.8

him but you know i could see that the problem is that wasn't the only search not even close because

1:09.0

if that same phone also contained if someone is poisoned what does it

1:14.1

go down on the death certificate as not overdose not deceased not that poison it's a word she

1:21.9

chose someone is poisoned no one was aware anybody had been poisoned at that point in time yet.

1:30.8

And if the word the prosecution drove through the center of their case,

1:35.2

like a railroad spike is accurate, well, it all comes together, then, doesn't it?

1:41.5

After the autopsy confirmed that Eric Ridgians died from an illicit fentanyl overdose of poisoning,

1:47.4

Corey's behavior shifted from performing grief to managing exposure.

1:51.2

She wasn't mourning.

1:52.6

She was calculating risk, and she was doing it in the most traceable way possible.

1:58.5

On a phone, she apparently believed was beyond the reach of law enforcement

2:03.9

oh narcissists are neat aren't they they just they operate in a different place than the rest of us

2:15.8

this is part four of our five-part definitive series as we break down the case of Corey Richards as we approach her sentencing.

2:25.0

We covered who Corey was, how she planned the murder, what happened the night Eric died.

2:29.9

Now we get into what she did after.

2:32.1

Fourteen months of performance, deception, and digital footprints that became the prosecution's most devastating evidence.

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