Kouri Richins Sent a Message After Her Conviction — It Ended With a Winking Emoji
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After a jury convicted her unanimously on every count — including the fatal poisoning of her husband Eric Richins — Kouri Richins sent a message from jail to an unidentified "admirer." She promised to expose the judge, the prosecutors, the investigation, and Eric's entire family. She said they "picked the wrong one." And she signed off with a winking emoji and a threat: "They haven't seen anything yet."
That message, revealed in the prosecution's sentencing memo, tells you everything about the woman who stood in a Park City courtroom on Eric's forty-fourth birthday and delivered a forty-minute speech to three sons who no longer want to hear from her.
Her boys had spoken first through their therapists. They described a household of fear — doors locked from the outside, animals dying around them, a mother who was absent or intoxicated. Each one asked the judge to keep Kouri behind bars. One said he felt safe for the first time since leaving her care.
Kouri's response was to call their memories a lie, attack the family raising them, and tell her sons to "be like your dad" — the father she was convicted of killing. Judge Mrazik sentenced her to life without parole, calling her "simply too dangerous to ever be free."
Tony Brueski walks through the narcissistic framework that powered Kouri's sentencing performance, from the eye rolls during her children's statements to the tears reserved exclusively for her own supporters — and what that winking emoji reveals about a woman who still believes she's the one being wronged.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.8 | The sentencing of Corey Richens. |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:13.2 | We're about to get into everything that happened in the courtroom on today's very special segment. |
| 0:19.9 | It's called, |
| 0:21.6 | What the F was that? |
| 0:24.3 | The sentencing of Corey Richens. |
| 0:27.6 | That's right. |
| 0:28.1 | She gets her own little intro right there because it was, it was that. |
| 0:35.6 | If you miss the five-hour debacle, I'm going to sum it up for you all of it here in this piece. |
| 0:42.6 | On the program here, we're going to be doing also in two other separate segments that will be dropping for subscribers pretty much right away. |
| 0:53.2 | They'll be out there here later on today when I drop this, |
| 0:55.6 | but we'll be dropping them publicly on Friday. |
| 0:58.6 | We're going to go through two specific parts of the sentencing, |
| 1:02.4 | the part where the kids are reading, |
| 1:04.6 | or having their representative, their social workers read their statements and and watching Corey's reactions, focusing on Corey's reactions throughout. |
| 1:17.1 | And then Corey gave a 40-minute speech as well. |
| 1:21.4 | I know it's Christmas in the true crime world when things like this happened because it's just like it's a train wreck you can't look away from um there was a lot of emotion here uh this day um from a lot of people and i'm not trying |
| 1:33.6 | to make light of that by any means people's lives have been destroyed by this woman um her her flippant |
| 1:41.4 | reactions to all of this her 40 40-minute narcissistic rant, |
| 1:46.3 | all of it just show how there's, |
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