Kouri Richins Murder Case Shaken as Star Witness Recants
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A bombshell affidavit just dropped: Robert Crozier—once billed as the key to the state’s fentanyl chain theory—now says he never sold fentanyl to the housekeeper prosecutors claim passed it to Kouri. That breaks the chain. And when you consider that no fentanyl was ever recovered, and no forensic link directly ties Kouri to the drugs… the state’s case starts to look a whole lot less certain.
But is it fatal?
Joining us is former prosecutor and seasoned defense attorney Eric Faddis to break it all down. We dive deep into the implications of this recantation, how it affects the admissibility of testimony from Lauber (the housekeeper), and whether the state can pivot its sourcing theory midstream without torpedoing its credibility. We also look at the 5x lethal dose tox report, the Valentine’s Day sandwich allegation, the “Walk the Dog” jailhouse letter, suppression motions over seized notebooks and phones, and 11 terabytes of dumped discovery that may constitute its own Brady violation.
This is no longer just about who gave who a pill. It’s about whether the legal system is equipped to handle contradictions, missing evidence, and high public scrutiny without crumbling under the weight of its own complexity.
Don’t miss this legal autopsy of a case that could still go either way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.0 | The prosecution's case against Corey Richens just took another serious hit. |
| 0:12.0 | Eric's here to talk with us about all of that. |
| 0:15.4 | On their key witness, Robert Krazer has now recanted, saying that he never sold fentanyl to the housekeeper at the center of the state's supply chain theory. |
| 0:26.9 | That single reversal undercuts a narrative that prosecutors have relied on for over a year. |
| 0:31.9 | But with the taxology report showing five times a lethal dose of fentanyl, no physical fentanyl recovered, and 26 additional |
| 0:40.4 | financial crimes on the table. Where does this case actually stand? We're going to dig into this now. |
| 0:46.2 | Eric Fattis, defense attorney, former prosecutor, is with us to continue to dig into this one. It's |
| 0:52.4 | been a while since we talked about it. How big of a blow is this to the prosecution or is it not to the murder charges that they're trying to bring against Corey Richens? |
| 1:04.0 | You know, it's clearly significant. And I've said this, said it earlier today, but a case might look really good on paper, but then |
| 1:11.3 | once you get closer to trial, some things can go south. Some things can turn on you that you don't |
| 1:15.8 | expect. Here, we have a witness recanting with damages the government's case. That witness was |
| 1:22.1 | the alleged initial source of the toxin that Corey Richon's Q used to kill her husband. |
| 1:29.5 | So that's a problem. |
| 1:31.1 | It messes up the sequence of events, sort of that's a sequential chain. |
| 1:35.5 | But that being said, there's a lot of other significant evidence that even if this dude |
| 1:40.3 | is being shifty about what he did, that doesn't take away from the fact of what was found |
| 1:47.3 | in the alleged victim's body and the other pieces of evidence you mentioned. So I think the case |
| 1:52.6 | is still reasonably strong, but this is a blow. Yeah. Well, go ahead, Tony. No, I just said, yeah, |
| 1:58.1 | it certainly does deal one. Go ahead. I'm curious, |
| 2:02.3 | it's been a while since we've talked about this case. What does the authorship of her book |
| 2:07.9 | have to do with any sort of defense? Does that come into play that, look, she, you know, |
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