What Did Kouri Richins Say After Her Own Children Asked a Judge to Lock Her Up Forever?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Three boys — ages nine, eleven, and thirteen — had their words read into the record by therapists because they couldn't face the woman convicted of killing their father. One described being locked in his room so often he can't remember which side the lock was on. Another described becoming a parent to his younger brother because their mother was drunk or gone. The youngest said hearing Kouri's name makes him feel "hateful and ashamed."
Every one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her locked up so they can finally feel safe.
Then Kouri Richins stood up for forty minutes and responded. Not with remorse. Not with acknowledgment. She told her sons they've been manipulated into believing what happened to their father. She attacked the family raising them. She told them to "ignore the noise" — meaning the truth they finally feel safe enough to speak. And she repeated "be like your dad," over and over, about the man a jury found she poisoned for money.
Judge Richard Mrazik sentenced Kouri to life without the possibility of parole on what would have been Eric's forty-fourth birthday. He called her "simply too dangerous to ever be free." Every remaining count runs consecutive.
Tony Brueski examines the psychological gap between what those boys said and how Kouri responded — the selective empathy, the narrative control, and the post-conviction message to an "admirer" that proves the performance isn't over. It's just moved to a smaller stage.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.8 | The sentencing of Corey Richens. |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:13.2 | We're about to get into everything that happened in the courtroom on today's very special segment. |
| 0:19.9 | It's called, |
| 0:21.6 | What the F was that? |
| 0:24.3 | The sentencing of Corey Richens. |
| 0:27.6 | That's right. |
| 0:28.1 | She gets her own little intro right there because it was, it was that. |
| 0:35.6 | If you miss the five-hour debacle, I'm going to sum it up for you all of it here in this piece. |
| 0:42.6 | On the program here, we're going to be doing also in two other separate segments that will be dropping for subscribers pretty much right away. |
| 0:53.2 | They'll be out there here later on today when I drop this, |
| 0:55.6 | but we'll be dropping them publicly on Friday. |
| 0:58.6 | We're going to go through two specific parts of the sentencing, |
| 1:02.4 | the part where the kids are reading, |
| 1:04.6 | or having their representative, their social workers read their statements and and watching Corey's reactions, focusing on Corey's reactions throughout. |
| 1:17.1 | And then Corey gave a 40-minute speech as well. |
| 1:21.4 | I know it's Christmas in the true crime world when things like this happened because it's just like it's a train wreck you can't look away from um there was a lot of emotion here uh this day um from a lot of people and i'm not trying |
| 1:33.6 | to make light of that by any means people's lives have been destroyed by this woman um her her flippant |
| 1:41.4 | reactions to all of this her 40 40-minute narcissistic rant, |
| 1:46.3 | all of it just show how there's, |
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