Kouri Richins Trial Preview: What Both Sides Bring to Five Weeks of Testimony
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Kouri Richins murder trial is here and the case is as contested as it is disturbing. Prosecutors allege she poisoned Eric with fentanyl twice — once in a sandwich, once in a Moscow Mule that killed him. Five times the lethal dose. Google searches for lethal fentanyl levels and luxury prisons. Texts about wanting Eric to "just go away." Nearly two million in life insurance allegedly taken out without his knowledge. Defense attorney Bob Motta says the prosecution's case has vulnerabilities they can't ignore. The key supplier recanted — now saying he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, while detoxing. No pills ever recovered. Abuse evidence excluded by the judge. A jail cell letter partially admitted despite the defense calling it manuscript fiction. And Kouri's mother Lisa Darden — whose romantic partner died of an oxycodone overdose in 2006 after naming her as beneficiary — was present the night Eric died. Motta previews every battleground the jury will face.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:16.1 | If he could just go away, life would be so perfect. The loving words of Corey Richens, allegedly. A jury has been seated in the trial of Corey Richards, who said those words, if he could just go away, |
| 0:47.0 | life would be so perfect. |
| 0:50.3 | Now look, people make those statements, people give those thoughts, and it doesn't lead to them |
| 0:57.0 | murdering their spouse. |
| 1:00.7 | Sometimes it does. |
| 1:04.1 | That's what Corey Richan allegedly texted her boyfriend on February 15th, the day after Valentine's Day, 2022. |
| 1:14.6 | Less than 24 hours earlier, according to prosecutors, she'd slipped fentanyl into her husband's favorite sandwich and watched him nearly die. |
| 1:25.9 | That's the allegation. Nearly die. That's the allegation. |
| 1:28.5 | Nearly die. |
| 1:31.9 | He just broke out in hives. |
| 1:34.7 | Throat started closing. |
| 1:36.5 | He used his son's epipen. |
| 1:39.5 | Texted his wife that he might need to go to the hospital. |
| 1:42.9 | Her response, |
| 1:44.3 | take a nap. |
| 1:52.9 | Not a good optic. |
| 1:58.2 | Less than three weeks later, |
| 2:00.6 | Eric Richens, |
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