Kouri Richins Day 1: Prosecutors Drop Money Memes, Defense Plays the 911 Call
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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Summary
The Kouri Richins murder trial opened in Park City's Summit County Courthouse, and Day 1 made one thing clear — this is going to be a five-week war over who Kouri Richins really is.
Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth came out with a devastating digital trail. Three memes allegedly accessed on Kouri's phone the morning Eric's body was wheeled out — including one reading "I'm rich" — while their three sons waited upstairs, not yet told their father was dead. He laid out $4.5 million in alleged debt, over 200 overdrafted transactions, text messages to alleged boyfriend Josh Grossman about marriage and vacations, internet searches for luxury prisons, and a fifteen-minute gap between Kouri allegedly grabbing her phone and calling 911.
Defense attorney Kathryn Nester fired back with Kouri's 911 call — sobbing and barely coherent — and told the jury they were witnessing a wife become a widow. She attacked Carmen Lauber, the prosecution's key witness, who allegedly never mentioned fentanyl in her initial police statement and only changed her story under threat of imprisonment. Lauber's own drug dealer later recanted in a sworn affidavit. No fentanyl was ever recovered from the home. The glasses from that night were never tested. The death certificate lists manner of death as unknown.
Eric's sister Katie Richins-Benson gave the day's most gut-wrenching testimony — arriving at the house, watching Kouri shake her head, and falling to the floor. She described Kouri as calm, well-dressed, and allegedly focused on closing a multimillion-dollar real estate deal while the family broke down around her. The defense pushed back hard on Katie's four-year-old memories and the family's six-figure investment in a private investigator hired to build a case against Kouri.
The battle lines are drawn. The witch versus the widow. Five weeks to go.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.8 | Here's the thing about day one of the Corey Richens' murder trial that's going to stay with me. |
| 0:12.5 | Probably going to stick with you, too. |
| 0:13.8 | It's not the opening statements. |
| 0:15.3 | It's not the tears from Eric's family. |
| 0:17.0 | It's three memes, memes, you know, like social media memes. |
| 0:22.9 | Well, Eric Richon's body was being zipped into a bag and wheeled out of his own home in Utah. |
| 0:29.2 | His three boys upstairs are their uncle, still not told their father is dead. |
| 0:33.9 | Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth. |
| 0:37.1 | Yes, that's his name. |
| 0:39.0 | And he has all the personality of the unseen cast member of the Adams family. |
| 0:45.2 | And I don't know any way to say that. |
| 0:46.9 | If you watch them, you're like, oh, I could see that. |
| 0:50.5 | Like, not as in a bat, we're just like, there's a, it's a creepiness. |
| 0:56.8 | It's like, not in a bad way either, more like he lives in that spooky house at the end of the street and probably hands out full candy bars at Halloween and might be killing people in his basement. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, I mean, I'm, of course, saying that in jest, but he's just, I don't know, |
| 1:13.7 | he's, he's, uh, kind of feels like a dude from another time, but he knows the stuff. |
| 1:21.6 | Anyway, let's take Brad Bloodworth now that we get that out of the way. Let's go back to the |
| 1:26.1 | memes that Brad Bloodworth showed us. |
| 1:28.9 | Three images up on the screen for the jury. |
| 1:31.0 | Three images allegedly accessed on Corey Richards' phone that same morning. |
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