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S3 Ep347: Witness Flips in Kouri Richins Case & Bear Brook Murder Victim Identified

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The prosecutors’ star witness in the Kouri Richins case has recanted key testimony accusing Richins of supplying the fentanyl she allegedly used to poison her husband, prompting her legal team to seek a reconsideration of her bail and case proceedings. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire’s Bear Brook murders, investigators have for the first time identified the final unknown victim as Rea Rasmussen, the daughter of serial killer Terry Rasmussen, using advanced DNA and genealogical methods, bringing a nearly 40-year investigation closer to closure.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Lavasser.

0:17.5

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.0

And like we have said in the past with Crime Weekly

0:22.1

News, we're going to cover cases that maybe we don't have enough to necessarily cover on

0:27.3

Crime Weekly. But we also want to use Crime Weekly News to give you guys updates on cases we did cover.

0:34.1

And as you can probably see from the title of this episode, we have updates on two cases

0:39.0

that we covered. We're going to talk about Corey Richens. We're also going to talk about the

0:42.9

Bear Brook murders. We have updates in both. Stephanie's going to get into it right now.

0:47.3

So I'll give you a quick summary of the Corey Richens case because we did cover it on Crime Weekly,

0:53.1

but not for a while. So this case kind of

0:56.5

started in March of 2022 when 39-year-old contractor and father of three, Eric Richens was found

1:02.5

unresponsive at a home in Caymus, Utah, after his wife, Corey, brought him a celebratory

1:08.0

drink, a Moscow mule, to be specific. And the medical examiner later found five times the lethal dose of illicit fentanyl in Eric's

1:17.3

system taken orally.

1:18.9

Investigators say that Corey, Eric's wife, her phone, it contradicted parts of her timeline.

1:26.1

She had said this. She was not near her phone during specific times of her timeline. She had said this.

1:27.8

She was not near her phone during specific times of the night of her husband's death.

1:33.3

But iPhones keep track of lock and unlock things.

1:36.9

Yeah, unfortunately for Corey, they do.

1:38.6

Yeah, I guess she did not know that they were keeping track of these things.

1:42.3

But if you open your iPhone,

1:49.0

even if you're not sending a text or doing anything, your phone's still keeping a log that that you did that. So her saying she wasn't near her phone, et cetera, et cetera, that's been put to

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