Kouri Richins Trial: Eric Said "If I Die, Look at Her" — Kouri Said "If I Die, Eric Did It"
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Two people in the same house, both pointing at each other. Before Eric Richins was found dead with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, he told his family: if I die, look at her. He was secretly meeting with a divorce attorney. Around the same time, Kouri Richins texted a close friend: "If I die, Eric did it." This Hidden Killers Week In Review breaks down the most critical week of testimony yet.
The prosecution laid bare Kouri's finances in open court—and the numbers tell a story. Bounced checks. Hard money loans stacking up. A forensic accountant called her real estate business "imploding." By March 5, 2022—the day after Eric died—Kouri was $1.6 million in the red. Even liquidating everything wouldn't dig her out.
The mansion timeline is what prosecutors want the jury to remember. Kouri committed to buying a $2.9 million property in December 2021 with no renovation money and high-interest debt coming due. She closed on it the day after Eric died. One week later, she listed it for sale.
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine both sides. The prosecution has financial motive, Eric's warning, the fentanyl supply chain testimony, the Valentine's Day poisoning allegation, and the boyfriend's texts. But the defense has ammunition too—an immunized witness with a drug problem, a supplier who changed his story, and a cause of death the medical examiner won't call homicide.
Faddis explains how prosecutors turn financial desperation into murder motive, why the defense isn't even contesting Kouri's money problems, and whether betting the jury won't leap from "bad with money" to "killer" is brilliant strategy or catastrophic miscalculation.
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| 1:18.0 | Lots of cases to get through today. |
| 1:19.9 | We're going to start with Corey Richens. |
| 1:21.4 | The prosecution just spent an entire day walking the jury through Corey Richens' finances, and it is ugly, bounced checks, |
| 1:31.6 | hard money loans stacking up, a real estate business, the forensic accountant straight up called |
| 1:36.5 | imploding. By the day after Eric died, Corey was $1.6 million in the hole. |
| 1:44.5 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:45.4 | Being terrible with money isn't the same as killing your husband for it. |
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