Mormon Mom CHARGED W/POISONING HUBBY “DEAD BY COCKTAIL”
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On more than one occasion, Eric Richins gets violently ill after having dinner with his wife, Kouri.
Then the pair, who own a successful real estate business, is celebrating a big sale when Kouri Richins fixes her husband a drink. She then goes to take care of the children. Hours later when she goes to bed Eric Richins is dead.
Investigators believe his wife killed him, putting an overdose of fentanyl in his drink. Police also discover that Kouri Richins tried to change the beneficiary to her husband's life insurance.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Jeffrey Wolf - Criminal Defense Attorney; Twitter: @JeffWolf5280 and @WolfLawLLC
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA.- Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
- Bobby Chacon- Former Special Agent FBI, Screenwriter for “Criminal Minds;” Instagram/Twitter: @BobbyChaconFBI
- Dr. Paul Christo - Opioid Expert, Associate Professor for The John Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine; Author and Host of "Aches & Gains: A Comprehensive Guide To Overcoming Your Pain"
- Dr. Kendall Crowns- Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:01.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:14.0 | A father of three beautiful little boys, loving husband, drops dead. |
| 0:22.6 | Found in his own bed in his own home when his wife comes back into the room, he's cold |
| 0:28.7 | to the touch. |
| 0:30.6 | What happened? |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:33.6 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:34.9 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM111. |
| 0:39.1 | First of all, take a listen to our friends at KUTV. |
| 0:42.8 | This is the home where police found Eric Richens dead on his bedroom floor in March. |
| 0:47.0 | So Richens and his wife Corey were celebrating a business accomplishment the night he died. |
| 0:52.3 | Corey made Eric a Moscow meal which he drank in the bedroom. |
| 0:55.7 | They say Corey told authorities that she left to help one of their children and returned |
| 1:00.1 | to the bed several hours later. |
| 1:02.1 | It was then they say she noticed Eric was called to the touch and called 911. |
| 1:06.6 | What a horrible event to leave your husband, go fall asleep in the bedroom with one of |
| 1:13.9 | your sons. |
| 1:15.9 | She wanders back in there and asleep in their bed around 3am and her husband is cold to |
| 1:22.3 | the touch. |
| 1:23.3 | It's not just me and I'll start pale to make sense of what we know right now. |
| 1:26.2 | But first I want to go to Chief Medical Examiner out of Tarrant County. |
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