Kouri Richins Trial: The Lie She Told the Woman Who Bought the Drugs
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Days after Eric Richins was found dead, his housekeeper called his wife with one question: please tell me those pills were not for him. According to testimony, Kouri Richins answered without hesitation. Eric died of a brain aneurysm, she said.
That lie — delivered calm and clean to the one person who knew exactly what those pills were — is the moment prosecutors say tells you everything about how Kouri Richins allegedly operated. Not with panic. With management.
The woman she lied to is now immunized and testifying against her. She says she bought fentanyl for Kouri four times — escalating from opiates to what Kouri allegedly called "the Michael Jackson stuff" — with cash left in a driveway and a text that simply read "OK, go ahead and get them." When Eric was found dead, he had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system.
What makes this trial hit differently is what Eric was doing on his end. He warned his family she was trying to kill him. He hid his communications from her. He was scared — and he was right.
The defense has targeted the prosecution's key witnesses hard, and they have real material to work with. This episode breaks down the full case — the lie, the supply chain, the warning Eric gave, and what the jury is left holding.
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| 1:01.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:07.3 | The trial of Corey Richens has been quite a dandy so far. |
| 1:12.7 | We're going to get into some of the most compelling moments of the case. |
| 1:18.9 | It is picking back up on Tuesday, the 10th of March. |
| 1:26.1 | So far, we have nine days of testimony, and a few days after Eric Richens was found no longer alive on the floor of his bedroom, his housekeeper picked up the phone and called his wife. |
| 1:39.5 | Why? Why would the housekeeper? I mean, other than, I'm so sorry, this is horrible. |
| 1:44.1 | Well, you see, the housekeeper Carmen Laubert needed to know. |
| 1:48.2 | She'd been the one making runs, buying pills, making, or taking, I should say, cash from the driveway, delivering the baggies. |
| 1:57.2 | She'd done it four times, and now Eric Richens was dead. |
| 2:00.0 | She called Corey. |
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