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Kouri Richins Convicted: A Complete Look at the Trial — Prosecution, Defense, and What Comes Next

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke cover the full arc of the case — what the prosecution built across three weeks of testimony, how the defense fought without calling a single witness, and what legal arguments exist now that the verdict is in.

Bob Motta breaks down the prosecution's circumstantial case — the financial motive, the dead man's warning, the forged insurance signature, and the contested drug chain that ran through immunity witness Carmen Lauber. He examines the defense strategy call by call and the appellate record the defense built in real time throughout the trial. Robin Dreeke examines the behavioral picture of this case — how it was constructed by prosecutors and how it ultimately landed with the jury that just found Kouri Richins guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree.

0:08.4

Here we are guilty.

0:11.0

Corey Richens.

0:11.9

No murder weapon, no confirmed drug chain, a death certificate that still says

0:16.4

undetermined and yet the prosecution just got a conviction.

0:21.2

Something worked.

0:22.5

Let's talk about what?

0:24.1

Because she looked so innocent.

0:26.0

Joining me to do just that.

0:28.8

As always, my co-host Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, chief of the counterintelligence

0:34.2

behavioral analysis program, who, by the way way it's book launch day for him today

0:38.7

and this is out as of today it's not all about me get it wherever books are sold we should send it to

0:44.9

cori we should we send her a autograph copy robin to the to the jail she would love it

0:52.2

let's go around, Corey.

0:54.6

Employ everything that you read in this book.

0:56.4

Exactly. She'll be a totally changed person.

1:01.0

If only she read it a few years ago.

1:03.0

And Bob Mata, host of the podcast Defense Diaries, Defense Attorney, Bob, welcome.

1:08.6

Let's start here.

1:10.5

Eric, he told multiple people. He thought his wife

1:14.4

was trying to poison him 18 days before he died. How much do you think that dead man's warning

1:21.6

had on the jury in terms of impact? I don't think it hurt. No.

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