Kouri Richins Defrauded Her Best Friend? The New Charges Explained | Case Brief
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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New charges against Kouri Richins are building upon her existing charges for the murder and attempted murder of her husband, Eric Richins. A significant portion of the new charges revolves around Kouri Richins's financial dealings and mounting debt.
Richins wrote checks from an account with a zero balance and an extended line of credit to her business account (which was negative), then immediately transferred funds out before the checks could bounce. This included a $1,000 transfer to her mother and $2,000 to her personal account.
In late 2021, Richins owned a home with substantial short-term, high-interest loans. She unsuccessfully tried to refinance the property into a traditional mortgage. She then "seller-financed" the property for her best friend, her best friend's husband, and their three children, who moved in and agreed to pay $2,900/month in rent with an option to buy. The best friend wired $45,000 as a down payment for a supposed long-term mortgage. Richins immediately spent this money on unrelated personal expenses and other creditors, leaving the best friend vulnerable to foreclosure and eventual eviction from the home.
The case is still scheduled for trial in February 2026. The financial charges are separate from the murder case but some information will overlap as evidence of motive and consciousness of guilt.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. It's time for a case brief, keeping you in the loop with the cases you care about most. |
| 0:04.0 | Just more briefly. If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. |
| 0:07.7 | But for now, let's get into it. |
| 0:10.7 | Corey Richens was arrested a year after her husband passed away. |
| 0:16.6 | She has now been charged with his murder and his attempted murder. |
| 0:21.6 | And today we are going over a whole bunch of new charges. |
| 0:25.6 | And we're going to talk about those. |
| 0:27.6 | This case is in Utah. The judge in Utah is a delight. |
| 0:31.6 | When I saw the initial headlines, I was like, what in the heck are they talking about? |
| 0:35.6 | Because the news often positions her as a |
| 0:39.1 | children's book author. Why? Because after her husband died, she wrote a book about grief, |
| 0:47.5 | a children's book about grief. She was promoting that book when she was arrested for his murder. |
| 1:11.8 | It seems to me in hindsight now that the reason it took so long to arrest her is because it took them quite a while to get into her phone. And the information in her phone is really what solidified the arrest in this case. He died from a overdose of fentanyl. It's being charged and alleged that that was not willfully ingested and that she poisoned him with fentanyl. So for trial, the original indictment had mortgage fraud |
| 1:19.3 | claims, forgery claims. Those were severed out of the case. So this indictment has some of that in it. |
| 1:29.6 | So when she goes to trial in February 2026, she is going to face aggravated murder charges, aggravated attempted murder charges, |
| 1:35.1 | and false fraudulent insurance claim charges that were right around the time of death. |
| 1:41.9 | The court took the mortgage fraud and forgery charges for the most part |
| 1:47.1 | out of the case that's going to trial. And so we now have a second indictment that is bringing back |
| 1:54.0 | in the forgery, the fraud, and some of the other money. So we're going to see that all now because we're going to look |
| 2:02.4 | at that new indictment. On November 11, 2021, the defendant wrote check number 241 from her Navy |
| 2:08.8 | federal account to her business account for $3,000 at the time. The Navy federal account balance was |
| 2:15.2 | zero. The line of credit was extended over $14,000. |
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