Kouri Richins Trial 2026: Eric Took the Drink Because He Trusted Her — So Did These Men
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Eric Richins took the Moscow Mule because his wife made it. That's what trust looks like in a marriage.
According to prosecutors, Kouri poisoned it with fentanyl.
Michael Wallace took the drinks his wife Stacey made him. So did David Castor. Both dead from antifreeze poisoning in Syracuse, New York — 2000 and 2005. Both while Stacey played the devoted wife, the loving caretaker, the woman who would never hurt them.
She hurt them every day. With every drink. For months.
When investigators closed in, Stacey tried to frame her own daughter. Drugged twenty-year-old Ashley, typed a fake suicide note confessing to both murders, and left her to die.
Ashley survived. And her survival destroyed Stacey's entire story.
Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins follows the same pattern. The devoted wife. The favorite drink. The fentanyl allegedly hidden inside. According to testimony, Eric got violently ill on Valentine's Day 2022.
One month later, he was dead.
That's the caretaker playbook. Poison what you serve. Murder through acts of love. Use trust itself as the delivery system.
Eric trusted Kouri. Michael trusted Stacey. David trusted Stacey.
All of them took the drink.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.6 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.9 | Think Cory Richens is alone in being someone who |
| 0:13.6 | covertly poisoned someone that they love. |
| 0:16.7 | Think again. |
| 0:19.2 | There's a moment in the hospital, and I want you to stay here with me for a second. |
| 0:25.4 | Where Ashley Wallace, this is a different person in a totally different case, opens her eyes and doesn't know where she is. |
| 0:34.8 | And in this story, Ashley at this time is 20 years old. Her mother, or her mouth, rather, |
| 0:42.3 | tastes like metal and sleep. There are tubes. There's machines, voices she doesn't recognize. |
| 0:53.7 | The last thing she remembers is her mother handing her a drink. |
| 0:58.5 | Vodka and something else. |
| 1:00.8 | Crushed up pills, her mom said, to help her sleep. |
| 1:06.7 | She'd been having trouble sleeping since her stepfather died. |
| 1:11.8 | She drank it. |
| 1:13.4 | Of course she drank it. |
| 1:14.3 | Her mother made it for her. |
| 1:17.3 | Now there are police officers in the room. |
| 1:20.8 | They're telling her things. |
| 1:22.3 | They don't make sense. |
| 1:23.9 | They're saying her mother has been arrested. |
| 1:25.8 | They're saying there was a suicide note on the computer. |
| 1:28.8 | A note in Ashley's name, confessing to murders. |
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