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Roberta Glass True Crime Report

The Horrifying True Story Kouri Richins' Defense Team Hid at Sentencing!

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In attempt to help Kouri Richins’ evade Life With Out Parole, her defense team brought in self-described “victim’s advocate” Emery Blanchard into Kouri Richins’ sentencing hearing. Blanchard, who has never met Kouri Richins, implored the court to give Richins a “merciful” sentence. Emery Blanchard’s father, John E. Blanchard was sentenced to 25 years to Life for the murder of Emery’s mother Patricia Ann Coon Blanchard. The true story of John Emery Blanchard’s murder and his parole hearing would not have helped Kouri Richins. Here’s what you didn’t hear at Kouri Richins’ sentencing hearing…

Show Notes:
KSL "25 Years After He Murdered Their Mom, His Kids Disagree..." - https://www.ksl.com/article/news/utah/25-years-after-he-murdered-their-mom-his-kids-disagree-whether-he-should-be-released/50042759
ABC 4 "The Justice Files - Killer Who Had No Regrets About Murder of Wife Denied Parole" -https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/the-justice-files-killer-who-had-no-regrets-for-killing-wife-denied-parole/
Deseret News "Blanchard Said He Could Snap a Neck" -https://www.deseret.com/1996/4/26/19238832/blanchard-said-he-could-snap-a-neck/
Deseret News "Life With Parole Sentence Draws Flak " - https://www.deseret.com/1996/5/15/19242601/life-with-parole-sentence-draws-flak/
Roberta Glass True Crime Report "An Avalanche of Evidence Feat Josh Diaz" - https://youtu.be/SZwAuOAatMU?si=hJJbefZNVsXHHGlr
KPCW "Parole Hearing Held for John Blanchard Convicted for 1995 Park City Homicide " - https://www.kpcw.org/local-news/2020-11-30/parole-hearing-held-for-john-blanchard-convicted-for-1995-park-city-homicide
Patricia Ann Boone Blanchard Obituary -https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2021/72/209380649_1b8b5b31-2fe3-4322-888d-07d3e72742b1.jpeg

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0:00.0

Okay, we are live. I'm Roberta Glass and you're listening to my true crime report.

0:11.0

Today we are talking about Corey Richens and the piece of evidence that you didn't hear in court as far as her sentencing,

0:23.6

her defense left out a very important part of the story in regards to one of her advocates

0:32.6

that spoke on her behalf arguing for the minimum or a merciful sentence.

0:40.9

I don't think she really specified what that was.

0:46.5

And this is so much of what I talk about on this channel is what gets left out in these true crime stories to push an agenda,

0:58.5

especially on the defense side. So again, my name is Roberta Glass. I talk about crime from a

1:06.8

victim-centered perspective. I also talk about innocence fraud and what I consider the

1:16.1

enormous fraud of the wrongful conviction movement if you think that sounds interesting

1:21.7

please hit the thumbs up subscribe to the channel here we go go. So at Corey Richens' sentencing, we heard from a woman named

1:33.8

Emery, Emery Blanchard. I don't know why I got tongue tied on that, but I did.

1:47.9

Hey, dark side of the mood. Hello, Wesley. So we heard from Emery, Blanchard, and

1:53.3

she spoke, she had never met Corey Richens. This was

1:57.6

presented in like a trio. I believe it was a trio of people who had never met

2:04.6

Corey Richens, who advocated to give her a light sentence, and which I thought was quite amazing

2:12.8

to have someone who had basically no relationship to the case at all advocate for someone at their

2:21.4

sentencing it's something that i've never seen before i've attended so many sentencing hearings

2:27.3

in person i've also watched them online and i have never seen it's just someone unrelated to the case. It's something that you

2:38.6

would expect to see in regards to maybe a law being changed, that kind of thing. You're pushing

2:48.2

some kind of advocacy.

2:51.5

But here we had advocacy, and one person suggested that we should,

2:58.2

it was a mother who's never identified and the defense sealed it,

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