Kouri Richins: Prosecution Reveals Damning Timeline of Premeditation
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
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Summary
The prosecution's case against Kouri Richins isn't just about fentanyl. It's about a timeline that points to planning.
Months before Eric's death: Kouri books an all-inclusive Caribbean vacation for herself and her boyfriend—checking in the month after her husband would be dead.
Weeks before: She texts that boyfriend, "If he could just go away and you could just be here, life would be so perfect." She allegedly forges Eric's signature on a $100,000 life insurance policy.
Valentine's Day, two weeks before his death: Eric calls a friend and says "I think my wife is trying to poison me" after eating a sandwich she left him.
The night he dies: She texts the boyfriend "Love you," then makes her husband a Moscow mule.
After his death: Her internet searches include "can cops uncover deleted messages iPhone" and "how long do life insurance companies take to pay."
Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth told the jury Eric had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system—"intentional, not accidental." Kouri owed $4.5 million and Eric's estate was worth $4 million.
Defense attorney Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor, analyzes how the state is weaving financial desperation, digital evidence, and prior bad acts into a narrative of premeditated murder.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | Let's talk about the prosecution in the case of Corey Richens. Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth |
| 0:11.5 | opened by telling juries that Corey Richens murdered her husband for his money and a fresh start at life. |
| 0:19.3 | The prosecution's case is built on layers. Four and a half |
| 0:22.0 | million in debt fraudulently obtained life insurance policy. A Caribbean vacation booked months |
| 0:27.3 | in advance with her boyfriend. And text messages expressing love to that boyfriend the same night |
| 0:33.4 | Eric died. They've shown the jury body camera footage of the morning Eric was found, presented |
| 0:38.9 | testimony from his devastated family, and laid out a timeline suggesting premeditation, |
| 0:43.8 | going back to an alleged Valentine's Day poisoning attempt. Eric Fattis, defense attorney, |
| 0:48.7 | drawing on his own prosecutorial background, is with us to help analyze whether this mountain |
| 0:53.8 | of circumstantial evidence can |
| 0:55.5 | carry a conviction and where the case might be vulnerable. Eric, welcome prosecutor Brad |
| 1:02.4 | Bloodworth told jurors that Eric Richon had several times a lethal amount of fentanyl in his system, |
| 1:08.8 | 15 nanograms per millimeter. And that, this level, proves intent, |
| 1:14.7 | not an accident. The medical examiner confirmed that this was a toxic dose. How does the |
| 1:20.6 | prosecution use dosage to quantify and to argue premeditation and is five times a lethal dose genuinely as dispositive as they're arguing here we are talking fentanyl and just the tip of a needle is enough to kill basically so we're talking five tips of needles again not a whole lot It's very easy to overdose and die from this. |
| 1:45.9 | What's your thoughts on that argument that they're bringing to the jury? |
| 1:49.3 | It is, and I think they're smart to sort of leverage that dosage. Every case is good facts and |
| 1:54.3 | bad facts, and that's a good fact for the prosecution. Because, you know, especially if defense |
| 1:58.6 | gets up there and says this was an accidental overdose, you know, usually accidental overdoses are, you know, one time the lethal amount, two times the lethal amount. Someone usually doesn't just take, you know, some monster amount of substance unless they were, unless it's a non-accidental overdose, |
| 2:18.1 | they were trying to commit suicide, which is another possibility. |
| 2:21.0 | But I think prosecution is going to argue that, hey, this dosage was something that was calculated. |
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