What Were Kouri Richins' Kids Too Afraid To Say In Person?
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Three licensed therapists read statements in open court that Kouri Richins' children wrote by hand. The boys are too young to stand at a podium and face the woman a jury says took their father. So they put it on paper.
The details are specific. One child woke to sirens and felt powerless. Another took on the role of caretaker — getting his younger brother to the bus, making sure he had food. The youngest described a pattern: locked inside his room, dependent on a sibling for meals, watching animals die from neglect. All three described a father who won't be at graduations, who won't teach them to drive, who won't coach another game. And all three asked the court to ensure Kouri Richins stays in prison permanently. They said they finally feel safe.
Kouri's courtroom behavior during those readings told its own story — scoffing, eye-rolling, dismissing statements from her own children. When she took the podium, she spoke for fifteen minutes without once acknowledging what they wrote. She framed the moment around her marriage, her character, her version of events. She told the boys to emulate the man the jury found she killed. She suggested his death may not be what the prosecution claims. And she told children who have said they're terrified of her that she intends to come home.
Tony Brueski examines every word of the impact statements, catalogs Kouri's reactions in real time, and dissects her full response — identifying the moments that reveal who she is when the courtroom is watching.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden |
| 0:05.9 | Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.1 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:16.0 | In our last segment here about Corey Richens, you just heard what the boys wrote. Her three kids, |
| 0:22.4 | a nine-year-old who woke up to sirens and didn't know if he was safe, a kid who had to parent |
| 0:29.3 | his own brothers because a woman in that house was either gone or drunk and a boy locked in his |
| 0:34.7 | bedroom so often his older brother smuggled him food while his animals starved |
| 0:41.0 | to death around him this was allegedly the world of corey richons according to her own three |
| 0:47.1 | children we're about to hear cori's reaction to all of that in its entirety. |
| 0:59.7 | While those words were still hanging in that courtroom when Corey Richens opened her mouth. |
| 1:09.9 | What you're about to hear is her full statement, delivered minutes after her children's words hit the record. |
| 1:13.3 | Not days, not later's, not after reflection, |
| 1:20.8 | just minutes. Listen for what's missing. Because if everything, in everything you're about to hear, |
| 1:26.3 | Corey Richards does not address a single thing the boys wrote, not the locked doors, not the dead animals. Not one word. |
| 1:29.3 | What she does instead, |
| 1:33.5 | you really need to hear for yourself. |
| 1:38.2 | And that's exactly what we are about to do right now as we continue our fun series here. |
| 1:41.3 | WTF was that, the sentencing of Corey Richens. Let's watch Corey, do what she does |
| 1:52.0 | best, make everything about herself, shall we? Here we go. My sweet baby boys, |
| 1:59.1 | I know that today you don't want to speak to me, have a relationship |
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