Kouri Richins: The Pattern Behind the Murder Charge
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Most coverage of the Kouri Richins trial focuses on the night Eric died. This episode focuses on everything that came before it — and everyone who was allegedly in the way.
Trial testimony has produced something more damning than any single piece of forensic evidence: a map of every person prosecutors say Kouri Richins used and what happened to them when they were no longer useful. A husband secretly trying to leave. A best friend who lost her life savings. A boyfriend leveraged for labor and love. A housekeeper turned immunity witness. A family that spent over $100,000 just to force the investigation forward.
The forensic accountant's testimony put a number on it: $7.5 million in debt, negative $1.6 million net worth, a real estate business she described under oath as "imploding." According to prosecutors, the people in Kouri's life weren't relationships — they were infrastructure. And when the infrastructure stopped working, they got replaced or exposed.
This is the Hidden Killers breakdown of the full human cost — the one the trial record makes impossible to ignore.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.6 | If you've been following along with the Corey Richens case, you're probably well aware that |
| 0:10.6 | Corey Richens has left a trail of utter destruction in virtually every relationship that she's |
| 0:17.2 | touched over the last God knows how long, at least the relationships that have come |
| 0:22.1 | to light in this trial. We're going to go through all of those. So you get a real full picture |
| 0:28.3 | of this woman and get, I guess, even greater context to who the person that is accused of murdering her husband actually is. |
| 0:39.7 | Does she have the propensity to carry out what she's been accused of? |
| 0:46.2 | I think when you have it all, all in front of you, and we kind of wrangle it all together, |
| 0:51.8 | everything you need to know about this woman in terms of her |
| 0:54.7 | interpersonal relationships, how she handles people, how she handles things, how she handles |
| 0:59.5 | anything in her life, especially when it comes to being an advantage to her and not to others, |
| 1:07.8 | how she hits the gas on, well, this is is going to benefit me i'm going to go down that |
| 1:13.6 | road pretty damn strong that's what we're going to be exploring today in this piece i want to get |
| 1:20.0 | your thoughts in the comment section as we work our way through it sub stack and youtube are the |
| 1:25.2 | places to do that hit Hit subscribe wherever you're |
| 1:27.7 | listening right now. So let's go back. It was Valentine's Day. I know we're talking about this |
| 1:31.8 | again, but this is part of the context. We're not going to rehash every aspect of this case. |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to go to these specific people, specific incidences, and specific events that really matter, that really show, say, clearer picture of who Corey Richens is, if you didn't already have one. |
| 1:51.2 | So Valentine's Day 2014, let's start there. |
| 1:55.1 | Valentine's Day 2022, February 14th is what I'm talking about. |
| 1:59.6 | And somewhere in Utah, Cody Wright picked up a phone |
| 2:02.1 | call from his business partner, Eric Richens. He took the call the way you take any call from someone |
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