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The After Show: Murder She Wrote: The Kouri Richins Trial

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Deborah Roberts spoke with Legal Analyst Brian Buckmire to unpack the shocking moments inside the courtroom. Plus, extended moments from our exclusive interview with Kouri’s former best friend.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, everybody. new customers only maximum saving 20 pounds terms at ocardo dot com hi everybody and welcome to 2020 the after show i'm deborra roberts and as always i'm so delighted that you are with us today to spend some time with us as we take a closer look at one of our

0:35.3

2020 episodes and this one is, truly a jaw dropper.

0:41.0

If you saw it, chances are you still talking about it?

0:43.6

And if you didn't, you're going to hear all the details today about an episode called

0:48.6

Murder She Wrote, the Corey Richens trial.

0:51.7

Now, this one has gained headlines all over the country, really probably all over the world. It grabbed a lot of attention. The story of Corey Richens, a 35-year-old mom and wife from Utah, who seemed to be living the good life. She had a real estate company. She volunteered in her community. And her husband, Eric, owned a multi-million dollar masonry business by all accounts

1:14.4

they were devoted parents they had three children and everybody saw them as a kind of a young successful

1:19.8

happy couple well that was until tragically on march 4th 2022 Eric was shockingly found dead after he and his wife had shared a nightcap,

1:30.8

while an autopsy would later reveal that he died from a fentanyl overdose, with five times the lethal

1:38.5

limit in his system. That's right, five times. His family was in deep grief, and interestingly, a year after Eric's

1:48.0

death, Corey Rinchins published a children's book about grief trying to help her sons cope with

1:54.3

the loss of their father. She even appeared on a local television show. We got an email,

1:59.3

wrote into the station, it was Corey, saying that she had just written

2:03.6

what she believed to be was the first book for kids about coping with grief and that she would

2:08.6

love the chance to share that on Good Things Utah.

2:10.6

My kids and I kind of wrote this book on the different emotions and grieving processes that we've experienced last year.

2:19.7

And to make sense and process, I'm sure.

2:23.3

Yes, exactly, exactly.

2:25.5

So she seemed to be moving forward in her life and then a breathtaking shocker.

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