Kouri Richins Paid $2,500 for a Grief Book She Never Wrote
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
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Summary
She Googled “luxury prisons for the rich in america” while the investigation into her husband’s death was still open. She searched her own name and net worth. She checked whether deleted texts could be recovered and whether the FBI gets involved in cases like hers. And then she published a children’s book about grief, went on local television to promote it, and performed the role of devastated widow for fourteen months straight. In part four of our definitive series, we dismantle every layer of Kouri Richins’ cover-up — from the 800 deleted messages to the “Walk the Dog” letter found in her jail cell that prosecutors said was a word-by-word script for coached testimony. Her mother mailed the sheriff’s office an anonymous copy of the book with a note calling Kouri a “devoted wife and adoring mother.” Investigators traced it through Amazon. The performance was audacious. The evidence trail was catastrophic. And the jury needed less than three hours to see through all of it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's a Google search typed on Cory Richon's phone sometime in the spring of 2022. |
| 0:12.4 | Mispelled because the woman who poisoned her husband apparently couldn't spell the substance that she used to do it. |
| 0:20.6 | What is a least lethal dot dose, dot of, dot, and then I miscorrectly spelled fentanyl. Yeah. That's what appeared in her phone. Dot between word fannel spelled wrong and if that were the |
| 0:42.4 | only search you might generously argue it was more of a curiosity right you may be a woman processing her husband's death trying to understand what happened to |
| 0:57.8 | him but you know i could see that the problem is that wasn't the only search not even close because |
| 1:09.0 | if that same phone also contained if someone is poisoned what does it |
| 1:14.1 | go down on the death certificate as not overdose not deceased not that poison it's a word she |
| 1:21.9 | chose someone is poisoned no one was aware anybody had been poisoned at that point in time yet. |
| 1:30.8 | And if the word the prosecution drove through the center of their case, |
| 1:35.2 | like a railroad spike is accurate, well, it all comes together, then, doesn't it? |
| 1:41.5 | After the autopsy confirmed that Eric Ridgians died from an illicit fentanyl overdose of poisoning, |
| 1:47.4 | Corey's behavior shifted from performing grief to managing exposure. |
| 1:51.2 | She wasn't mourning. |
| 1:52.6 | She was calculating risk, and she was doing it in the most traceable way possible. |
| 1:58.5 | On a phone, she apparently believed was beyond the reach of law enforcement |
| 2:03.9 | oh narcissists are neat aren't they they just they operate in a different place than the rest of us |
| 2:15.8 | this is part four of our five-part definitive series as we break down the case of Corey Richards as we approach her sentencing. |
| 2:25.0 | We covered who Corey was, how she planned the murder, what happened the night Eric died. |
| 2:29.9 | Now we get into what she did after. |
| 2:32.1 | Fourteen months of performance, deception, and digital footprints that became the prosecution's most devastating evidence. |
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