What Do Kouri Richins And Alex Murdaugh Tell Us About A Broken System?
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she'll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her "picked the wrong one."
In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose murder convictions were just thrown out by the Supreme Court responds by suing the court clerk who allegedly corrupted his jury — not for the money, but for the subpoena power to find out who else was involved.
Eric Faddis breaks down both cases. On the Kouri Richins side, he evaluates every appellate lane — the alleged prosecutorial access to privileged jail calls, the witness recantation, the venue fight, the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence — and gives a blunt assessment of whether any of it has real teeth. He then shifts to what Kouri can still do from inside a Utah prison and the legal tools available to the people she's already threatening.
On the Murdaugh side, he explains what a Section 1983 federal lawsuit actually accomplishes, why the gap between the state prosecutor declining to charge jury tampering and the Supreme Court ruling it happened matters, and how civil depositions running parallel to a death-penalty-eligible retrial could fundamentally reshape the criminal case.
Two courtrooms. Two convicted defendants who refuse to stop. One former prosecutor who breaks down what's real, what's theater, and what the system still isn't doing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink. |
| 0:07.0 | Corey Richards stood up at her sentencing and made a promise. |
| 0:13.0 | She'd appeal no matter how long it takes. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know why I'm talking like Donna Adelson with her, |
| 0:20.0 | but she kind of reminds me of a young |
| 0:21.5 | up-and-coming Donna Adelson. If only she can be so lucky. She told her sons, we're going to make this |
| 0:28.5 | right. She called the conviction completely wrong, an absolute lie. Her defense attorneys told the |
| 0:35.0 | judge, they're filing a motion for a new trial |
| 0:38.2 | and got the deadline extended from 14 days to 28. |
| 0:42.6 | So now the question is whether any of that defiance |
| 0:45.9 | is grounded in real legal ammunition, |
| 0:48.6 | or whether this is a woman with a life sentence |
| 0:51.1 | performing for an audience of three children |
| 0:53.5 | who already asked the judge to lock her away forever. |
| 0:58.4 | Joining us to help us break down this happy mother-son conversation. |
| 1:06.0 | Excuse me, Eric Fattis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, and Robin Drake retired FBI Special |
| 1:12.3 | Agency for the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. My goodness, Corey telling her boys |
| 1:17.5 | she's going to fight this no matter how long it takes and they're going to make this right. |
| 1:23.8 | As somebody who's been on both sides of a courtroom, Eric, when you hear a defendant, uh, talk like that after the life without parole sentence is read and her kids are saying, please never contact us again, basically. |
| 1:37.7 | Is that ever rooted in a real legal strategy or is this, uh, almost always, you know know the ramblings of a madwoman |
| 1:45.1 | well tell you um basically that's what they all say they all are to uh you know sort of |
| 1:53.5 | valiantly uh go against the system that has oppressed them and and vindicate that their rights |
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