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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Kouri Richins Guilty: The Prosecution's Case — What Worked and Why

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A jury convicted Kouri Richins of aggravated murder. No murder weapon. No confirmed drug chain. A death certificate that still says undetermined. Tony Brueski, defense attorney Bob Motta, and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke break down how the prosecution got there.

From Eric Richins' warning to his friends eighteen days before his death, to the handwriting expert who testified he probably didn't sign the insurance application taken out on him, to the financial picture prosecutors built around debt, secret policies, a forged signature, and an affair — Bob and Robin examine every piece of the state's case, what the jury responded to, and what this conviction tells us about building a circumstantial murder case without a murder weapon.

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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.

0:21.3

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.

1:10.4

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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