Kouri Richins Sentenced To Life Without Parole, Reads Emotional Letter To Her Sons
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A Utah judge gave 35-year-old Kouri Richins the harshest sentence possible following an emotional day of victim impact statements. In court, we heard directly from Richins’ sons who each wrote statements to the court, asking the judge to make sure their mom never gets out of prison. Eric Richins’ sisters and father also addressed the court, all before Kouri herself took more than 40 minutes offering life advice to her sons and proclaiming her innocence.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey, the folks, it is Wednesday, May 13th. |
| 0:08.7 | And simply put, we have never seen or heard anything like the sentencing hearing we just witnessed for Corey Richens, the Utah mom who has been convicted of poisoning her husband. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs. We had to hit record quickly because you and I have |
| 0:30.2 | been going back and forth and debating. This is a trial we watched from start to finish, sentencing |
| 0:34.1 | hearing for Corey Richens. And she knows now robes, and we'll start |
| 0:39.5 | with that, her sentence. The judge essentially on count one, the murder had two options, |
| 0:45.8 | 25 to life or life in prison without parole. And he went with the latter of the two, and he went |
| 0:51.9 | into great explanation as to why, but he just said this woman is too dangerous to ever see the light of day period. |
| 1:00.7 | That's a direct quote, folks. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.4 | That's verbatim. |
| 1:03.1 | Pointed to the fact that she wasn't just convicted of first degree murder for poisoning her husband to death. |
| 1:10.1 | 17 days prior, she was convicted for attempting to poison her husband to death. |
| 1:15.3 | She just didn't do it right or didn't do it well enough. |
| 1:17.9 | So I think his point was when you take those two convictions into consideration, she doubled |
| 1:24.8 | down. |
| 1:26.1 | She got the job done. It just went to show you her determination |
| 1:30.0 | to kill her husband, despite the fact that he was the father of her three children. And she did it for |
| 1:38.0 | money. And he said that. This was an unbelievable sentencing hearing after what was essentially |
| 1:44.1 | an unbelievable trial and a pretty |
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