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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Kouri Richins' Phone Was Unlocked 15 Minutes Before She Called 911

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The prosecution dropped a digital bomb on Day 6 of the Kouri Richins murder trial — and the jury spent Monday afternoon watching it detonate in real time.

Digital forensic analyst Chris Kotrodimos testified about data recovered from seven phones and records sets connected to Kouri, Eric Richins, her alleged boyfriend Josh Grossman, housekeeper Carmen Lauber, and drug supplier Robert Crozier. Among the findings: three deleted meme thumbnails accessed from Kouri's phone at 8:29 a.m. on the morning Eric was found dead, featuring captions about being rich and calling people idiots. Hundreds of texts, calls, and web history deleted from Kouri's iPhone during the exact weeks the alleged drug purchases and Eric's death occurred. Google searches from her replacement phone for wiping iPhones remotely, luxury prisons, life insurance payouts, and her own net worth. And phone activity data showing Kouri's device was unlocked multiple times starting at 3:06 a.m. on the night Eric died — fifteen minutes before she called 911.

Kotrodimos also mapped cell tower data that showed Lauber's and Crozier's phones converging on the same gas station on three specific dates — the only three times Lauber's phone ever traveled there — while Kouri texted Lauber dozens of times. Valentine's Day phone records showed Kouri texting Grossman "I love you" while Eric told her he felt sick and was lying down, on the same day prosecutors allege she tried to poison him.

Former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Erik Christensen testified that Eric was given fentanyl by someone else and that counterfeit fentanyl pills disguised as oxycodone are common on the street. Family friend Allison Wright told the jury Kouri said she felt "trapped" in her marriage in 2019. Robert Crozier's law enforcement interview was played, showing him admitting to selling pills while denying knowledge of fentanyl.

The defense challenged the digital analysis as speculation and pressed on untested forensic avenues. Kouri Richins is presumed innocent. But the phones told a story Monday that doesn't depend on witness deals or testimony — it depends on data.

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This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruske.

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At 829 in the morning on March 4th of 2022, first responders who just left the Richens home in Comus, Utah.

1:18.9

Eric Richens, he was deceased. His body was still in the house.

1:22.9

And according to digital forensic analysis, an analyst Chris Cortodemos, who testified in the trial of Corey Richens,

1:37.0

three meme thumbnails were recovered from Corey Richens' phone, accessed at that exact time.

1:46.5

So just if you're like not quite following along here, this woman's husband, father to

1:55.0

their three children who are in the other room, by the way,

2:12.6

you're, children who are in the other room by the way is being zipped into a body bag and being taken out of the home and she's just been told he did not make it.

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I mean, she already kind of knows that.

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He was cold to the touch by the time she called 911.

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