Kouri Richins: Inside the Mind of a Father Who Knew His Wife Was Dangerous—And Stayed Anyway
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This is the episode I've been thinking about for months.
The Kouri Richins trial just started in Utah. The headlines are all about the fentanyl, the children's book about grief, the alleged affair. But nobody's talking about what Eric Richins actually lived through—the years of psychological warfare before the night prosecutors say she killed him.
According to court documents, Eric discovered Kouri had allegedly stolen nearly half a million dollars from him. Forged his signature. Drained his accounts. He confronted her. She promised to pay it back. She allegedly never did.
He consulted divorce attorneys. Changed his will in secret. Created a trust so Kouri could never control his assets. Warned his family: if anything happens to me, she's to blame.
And then—on Valentine's Day 2022—he ate one bite of a sandwich she left him. Hives. Couldn't breathe. Used his son's EpiPen. Called a friend and said: "I think my wife tried to poison me."
Eighteen days later, he was dead.
So why didn't he leave? Because he had three boys under ten. And there's no custody arrangement that protects kids from a parent whose mind doesn't work like yours. Eric stayed close because he thought staying was safer than leaving.
He was wrong.
This episode is for everyone who's ever lived with someone whose reality didn't match theirs. Who questioned their own sanity. Who stayed too long because leaving felt more dangerous than staying.
Eric Richins deserves to be more than a true crime headline. He deserves to be a warning.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.6 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | There's a moment that everyone who's ever loved a covert manipulator knows. |
| 0:13.9 | The floor drops out. |
| 0:15.6 | The chest goes cold and you realize maybe for the first time, |
| 0:18.9 | maybe after years of small doubts, |
| 0:23.0 | you kept pushing away that the person you're with, |
| 0:27.6 | the person maybe you married, |
| 0:30.0 | doesn't actually exist. |
| 0:34.6 | The person that you're friends with, |
| 0:36.4 | the person that you're a partner of, the person that you're friends with, the person that you're a partner of, the person |
| 0:39.1 | could be your own flesh and blood, that there's someone else living inside them, someone |
| 0:50.2 | who's been operating a completely different version of reality, right under the same |
| 0:56.5 | roof. |
| 0:57.8 | And you never saw clearly until now. |
| 1:02.7 | For Eric Richens, that moment allegedly came in September of 2020. |
| 1:06.6 | According to court documents, he sat down to review his finances and found nearly half a million dollars missing. |
| 1:13.2 | Credit lines he'd never opened. |
| 1:15.5 | Signatures, he'd never signed. |
| 1:18.4 | His wife, Corey, had allegedly been forging his name, draining his accounts, running up his credit cards, and funneling money from his business, all while |
| 1:31.5 | coming home every night, kissing the kids good night and acting like nothing was wrong. |
| 1:37.3 | But here's it made Eric's situation unbearable. Discovering the alleged theft wasn't the |
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