Two Trials, One Prosecutor's Take: Richins and Gray Under the Microscope
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today for a deep dive into two of the most significant criminal trials happening in the country — the Kouri Richins fentanyl murder case and the Colin Gray parental accountability trial.
The Richins case begins February 23rd with the defense riding pretrial wins: a recanting drug source, excluded prosecution experts, and severed financial charges. But the state has an alleged prior poisoning attempt, Carmen Lauber's expected testimony that Kouri requested fentanyl and "the Michael Jackson stuff," Google searches allegedly about lethal doses and luxury prisons, forged insurance documents, a jail cell letter allegedly coaching family testimony, and five times the lethal dose in Eric's system.
In Georgia, Colin Gray faces 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Prosecutors say he gave his 14-year-old son an AR-15 despite alleged FBI warnings, school shooting threats, and a text from Colt allegedly saying "the blood is on your hands." Prosecutors allege a Parkland shrine sat in the bedroom. When officers arrived, Colin allegedly said, "I knew it."
Faddis analyzes every angle of both cases — defense strategy, prosecution evidence, legal theories, and his honest assessment of where each is headed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.8 | There is a big trial that is about to get underway. |
| 0:13.7 | We've been talking about it for roughly three years now, the Corey Richens murder trial. |
| 0:19.1 | If all holds out, here we are. |
| 0:21.8 | Jury has been seated. |
| 0:23.5 | February 23rd in Summit County, |
| 0:26.4 | nearly four years after Eric Richens was found dead from a fentanyl overdose. |
| 0:32.1 | But heading into opening statements, |
| 0:34.0 | the defense has landed some real pre-trial blows, recanting, drug source, witness |
| 0:41.8 | intimidation allegations against the lead detective, excluded experts, and severed financial |
| 0:48.3 | charges. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fattis is with us to help us break all |
| 0:54.1 | this down. |
| 0:55.0 | Eric, welcome. |
| 0:56.5 | The man, prosecutors say supplied the fentanyl, Robert Crozer. |
| 1:01.2 | He's the big one for the defense here. |
| 1:04.3 | He has signed a sworn affidavit saying he sold oxy, not fentanyl, to the housekeeper, Carmen Lauer. |
| 1:13.3 | He says he was detoxing and out of it during his 2023 police interview and the pills were never |
| 1:19.6 | recovered or tested as a former prosecutor. |
| 1:22.7 | I got to ask you, how dangerous is it for the state? |
| 1:26.4 | When the alleged murder weapon, the pills, was never forensically confirmed. |
| 1:30.7 | And the one person in the supply chain who knew the pills what they were now says that that's not true. |
| 1:38.2 | You know, Johnny, I think it's a real significant problem. |
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