Kouri Richins: When Everyone Around You Is a Resource — Psychology Panel
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Kouri Richins trial has given us something rare: a documented, witness-by-witness record of every person allegedly used along the way. A boyfriend. A best friend. A housekeeper. Friends who lost money. Each one, according to prosecutors, served a function — until they didn't.
Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to examine what that pattern actually looks like from the inside. Why people embedded this deeply in someone's life don't see what's happening until it's over. What separates a person who is simply selfish from someone who allegedly views every relationship as a resource to be managed and monetized. And what the trail of financial and emotional damage left behind in this trial says about how this kind of operating system sustains itself for years before anyone can name it.
All commentary is grounded in publicly available trial testimony and evidence. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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| 1:01.9 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 1:09.8 | One of the most chilling threads running through the Corey Richens case isn't necessarily the crime itself. |
| 1:18.2 | It's the trail of people she left financially and emotionally hollowed out along the way. |
| 1:26.5 | A boyfriend whose professional connection, she allegedly leveraged |
| 1:30.9 | friends who watched their savings evaporate after trusting her. This is a pattern that goes far beyond |
| 1:38.6 | bad decision making. What we're looking at is a psychological operating system. Most people can't even recognize |
| 1:45.8 | until they're already inside of it. And we're going to be breaking this down this morning. |
| 1:50.6 | As always, Robin Drake, my co-host, former FBI Special Agency for the Counterintelligence |
| 1:55.8 | Behavioral Analysis Program. And Chavon Scott is with us today, psychotherapist and author. As always, welcome everybody. |
| 2:04.4 | Let's start by talking about Corey's boyfriend, Josh Grossman. He testified that his relationship |
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