Prosecutor Breaks Down Kouri Richins & Colin Gray Trials
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break down two of the most consequential trials happening in America right now—both asking the same fundamental question from different angles.
Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd for the alleged fentanyl murder of her husband Eric. The defense has landed blows: recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed charges, intimidation allegations against the lead detective. But the prosecution has a mountain—alleged Valentine's Day poisoning attempt, housekeeper testimony about "the Michael Jackson stuff," Google searches about lethal doses, a jail letter allegedly coaching testimony, and five times the lethal dose in Eric's system.
Colin Gray faces 29 felony counts including second-degree murder in Georgia. Prosecutors allege he armed his 14-year-old son with an AR-15 despite an alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad," an FBI visit over school shooting threats, a Christmas gift of the rifle, a text allegedly saying "the blood is on your hands," and a bedroom prosecutors describe as a shrine to the Parkland shooter. When officers arrived, Colin allegedly said two words: "I knew it."
Eric Faddis walks through both sides of both cases live. The defense's strongest cards in each courtroom. The prosecution's most devastating evidence. The legal theories that make each case unique—and the accountability question that connects them.
One case alleges direct action. The other alleges criminal negligence. Both ask jurors to determine when knowing becomes culpable, when enabling becomes murder, when failure to act crosses into criminal liability.
Live analysis. Two trials. One veteran prosecutor on what conviction actually requires.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and true crime today. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:18.9 | There is a big trial that is about to get underway. |
| 0:22.7 | We've been talking about it for roughly three years now, the Corey Richens murder trial. |
| 0:28.3 | If all holds out, here we are. |
| 0:30.8 | Jury has been seated February 23rd in Summit County, nearly four years after Eric Richens was found dead from a fentanyl overdose. |
| 0:41.3 | But heading into opening statements, the defense has landed some real pretrial blows, |
| 0:47.8 | recanting, drug source, witness intimidation allegations against the lead detective, excluded experts, and severed |
| 0:56.8 | financial charges. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fattis is with us to help us break |
| 1:02.9 | all this down. Eric, welcome. The man, prosecutors say supply the fentanyl, Robert Krazer. |
| 1:10.3 | He's the big one for the defense here. |
| 1:13.4 | He has signed a sworn affidavit saying he sold oxy, not fentanyl, to the housekeeper, |
| 1:21.5 | Carmen Lauber. |
| 1:22.3 | He says he was detoxing and out of it during his23 police interview and the pills were never recovered or |
| 1:29.4 | tested as a former prosecutor. I got to ask you, how dangerous is it for the state when the alleged |
| 1:36.1 | murder weapon, the pills was never forensically confirmed and the one person in the supply chain |
| 1:41.5 | who knew the pills what they were now says that that's not true. |
| 1:47.6 | You know, Johnny, I think it's a real significant problem. Look, the jury's going to want to see |
| 1:53.1 | substantiation of these allegations. You know, they're saying it was fentanyl. Okay, well, where is the |
| 1:58.2 | fentanyl? Was it ever found in her house? Did they ever get |
| 2:01.2 | some sample to test? My understanding is no. And so now, not only do we have the person who says it was |
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