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What Does Every Expression on Kouri Richins' Face at Sentencing Actually Mean?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, News Commentary, True Crime

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A psychotherapist watched the Kouri Richins sentencing and saw things the rest of us felt but couldn't name. The contempt that overrode self-preservation. The grief that only appeared when the room validated her. The 45-minute speech that functioned as a love letter on the surface and something far more damaging underneath.

Shavaun Scott breaks down the full sentencing in three parts on True Crime Today. The visible reactions during victim impact statements — including Kouri's response to her own children describing a childhood spent in survival mode. The dramatic behavioral flip when the defense took over and Kouri's tears appeared for the first time. And the speech: "be like your dad," the affair admission, the denial of the verdict, the request for her children to advocate on her behalf to the family they finally feel safe with, and the closing line coaching three boys to adopt her defiance as their own.

Behavioral analysis from a licensed psychotherapist. Three parts. No moment left unexamined.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

this is hidden killers live with tony brusky and robin drink well well well if uh you saw the other day

0:14.6

the corrie richon's case there you go uh there we go right Right graphic. Um, you, uh, you, you saw quite a show.

0:24.6

Uh, you saw the, uh, the sentencing of Corey Richens. If you watch that, if not. And you're looking for

0:30.3

a good, uh, you know, four hours of your life. You'll never get back. Go ahead and watch it. Uh,

0:36.1

but it is, it is very telling, especially if you're one, like a lot of us, that find the behavior of narcissists,

0:45.2

borderlines of psychopaths, sociopaths, fascinating.

0:49.1

It's one to watch.

0:50.5

It really is.

0:51.5

The judge told the courtroom up front, no outward reactions. And of course, within minutes,

0:58.1

Corey Richens is making faces of disgust, rolling her eyes, mouthing, what? And whispering to her lawyers,

1:06.6

while Eric's family spoke of the destruction that she reigned down upon their family and her own children.

1:14.6

And she kept doing it.

1:16.4

Well, three therapists read letters from her own children.

1:20.4

Kids who called her Corey, not mom, and begged the judge to put her away forever.

1:28.7

We're going to be going through all of that.

1:31.9

The various moments in that trial, the contempt caught on camera.

1:36.2

Corey's reactions to Eric's family and her own children were also going to be discussing the reactions that she had when her folks were singing her praises

1:47.7

to the room and then also her 40-minute rambling psychopathic speech where she threatens to come

1:56.5

back and stalk her children who just begged her to never get out of prison.

2:01.5

Joining us to do all this, one of our favorite people to talk about crazy people with

2:05.5

Chavon Scott, psychotherapist and author is here along with Robin Drake, as always,

2:12.1

retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.

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