Kouri Richins Trial Update: Court Documents Reveal Eric Suspected Poisoning for Years Before His Death
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews
Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Kouri Richins murder trial is underway in Park City, Utah—and the court documents paint a picture far more disturbing than the headlines suggest.
According to prosecutors, Eric Richins didn't just die suddenly. He saw it coming. Court filings reveal he told his family that if anything happened to him, Kouri was to blame. His sister testified he believed Kouri tried to kill him during a trip to Greece years earlier. And on Valentine's Day 2022—just eighteen days before his death—Eric told two friends he thought his wife tried to poison him after a sandwich left him unable to breathe.
So why didn't he leave?
Family spokesman Greg Skordas put it simply: "I can give you three good reasons he stuck around and they're all under the age of ten."
Eric had secretly changed his will, created a trust naming his sister as trustee, and removed Kouri as his life insurance beneficiary. He consulted divorce attorneys. But according to those close to him, he stayed because leaving meant handing his three sons to the very person he feared.
Prosecutors allege Kouri was deeply in debt—over $4.5 million to more than 20 lenders—while Eric's estate was worth roughly $4 million. They say she was having an affair, texting her boyfriend "love you" just thirty minutes before allegedly handing Eric a fentanyl-laced drink.
Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, insurance fraud, and forgery. Her defense says there's "zero evidence" of how fentanyl entered Eric's system.
The trial is expected to last through late March. We're tracking every development.
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#KouriRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #EricRichins #TrueCrimeToday #UtahMurderTrial #FentanylPoisoning #TrueCrime #CourtUpdate #TrialWatch #BreakingNews
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.6 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | There's a moment that everyone who's ever loved a covert manipulator knows. |
| 0:13.9 | The floor drops out. |
| 0:15.6 | The chest goes cold and you realize maybe for the first time, |
| 0:18.9 | maybe after years of small doubts, |
| 0:23.0 | you kept pushing away that the person you're with, |
| 0:27.6 | the person maybe you married, |
| 0:30.0 | doesn't actually exist. |
| 0:34.6 | The person that you're friends with, |
| 0:36.4 | the person that you're a partner of, the person that you're friends with, the person that you're a partner of, the person |
| 0:39.1 | could be your own flesh and blood, that there's someone else living inside them, someone |
| 0:50.2 | who's been operating a completely different version of reality, right under the same |
| 0:56.5 | roof. |
| 0:57.8 | And you never saw clearly until now. |
| 1:02.7 | For Eric Richens, that moment allegedly came in September of 2020. |
| 1:06.6 | According to court documents, he sat down to review his finances and found nearly half a million dollars missing. |
| 1:13.2 | Credit lines he'd never opened. |
| 1:15.5 | Signatures, he'd never signed. |
| 1:18.4 | His wife, Corey, had allegedly been forging his name, draining his accounts, running up his credit cards, and funneling money from his business, all while |
| 1:31.5 | coming home every night, kissing the kids good night and acting like nothing was wrong. |
| 1:37.3 | But here's it made Eric's situation unbearable. Discovering the alleged theft wasn't the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tony Brueski, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tony Brueski and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.