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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Kouri Richins: What the Prosecution Can't Prove — Eric Faddis Analysis

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Defense attorney Kathy Nester told the jury something remarkable in her opening statement: after four years of investigation, prosecutors have "zero evidence" showing how fentanyl got into Eric Richins' body.

This week's testimony proved her point.

The Moscow mule cups at the heart of the prosecution's theory were never tested—the nanny washed them the next morning. Deputy Nguyen didn't secure the kitchen. White specks on Eric's nightstand, visible in crime scene photos, were never analyzed. Crime scene tech Chelsea Gipson found no drugs in the home on her initial visit, but evidence kept turning up in subsequent searches over four years. The medical examiner testified the manner of death remains "undetermined."

Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, breaks down the defense strategy taking shape in the Kouri Richins trial. What happens when prosecutors have strong motive evidence—the texts, the searches, the debt, the boyfriend—but can't connect the defendant to the actual act?

The defense is betting everything on reasonable doubt. Faddis explains why that bet might pay off.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:03.2

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:07.1

Four weeks into the Nancy Guthrie investigation and still no suspect, no person of interest, no body, but the evidence tells a story.

0:16.1

Was there prior visits to a home?

0:18.0

A suspect you didn't know about a doorbell camera until he was standing in

0:21.6

front of it, grabbing foliage, improvised attempts to cover the lens. This doesn't look like a

0:27.7

professional operation. It looks like someone who thought they knew what they were doing and didn't.

0:32.8

This was a burglary that went sideways and Nancy Guthrie died during a confrontation that a perpetrator

0:38.5

never intended to have happened. What does that person face legally right now if they come forward,

0:45.5

if they're ever caught? Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Fattis is with us to

0:51.1

break down what this all means.

0:54.9

Felony murder.

1:03.5

And getting caught and whether there's any path forward for someone sitting with this or whether that window has already closed.

1:06.3

Eric, as always, thank you for being here.

1:08.9

Arizona has felony murder.

1:10.7

If someone breaks into a home and a death occurs during that burglary, as always, thank you for being here. Arizona has felony murder.

1:16.0

If someone breaks into a home and a death occurs during that burglary, even if the death wasn't intended, what goes through what that charge means and why intent to kill doesn't

1:22.1

always matter under that statute.

1:25.2

Yeah, that is sort of a creative law that originated decades ago, whereby, you know, if

1:32.4

there was a commission of a felony and someone died during the course thereof, the states

1:37.9

decided, hey, we want to punish that just like we would punish murder because there were

1:41.5

so many casualties that were happening during these high-level felonies. And so, yeah, for example, if someone is in the commission of a felony and they didn't even

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