Hello and welcome to the sidebar, presented by True Crime News, taking you inside the

courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. I'm your host, Joshua

Ritter. I'm a criminal defense lawyer based

in Los Angeles and previously an LA County prosecutor for over a decade. We are recording this on

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026. In this week's episode, a husband on trial for murdering his wife

and welding her body inside a gas tank where it hid for years.

Plus, social media on trial as a Los Angeles courtroom weighs claims that the platform's

addictive products caused lasting harm on users.

But first, the shocking opening of Corey Richon's trial as prosecutors claimed the wife

poisoned her husband to gain millions and begin a new life with her lover. Today, we are joined by

Rich Schoenstein, an attorney and legal analysts. You can catch on News Nation and many other media

outlets. Rich, welcome back, my friend. How are you? I'm well. Good to see you,

Josh. Good to see you, too. You've been busy? Yeah. I have like half a dozen cases that are

theoretically going to trial in the next few months. And as is true in the kind of work I do,

they won't all go to trial, but one has to be ready.

Yeah, yeah, it's it's tough having that many spinning plates at once.

Well, we really appreciate you being able to carve out some time to chat with us about these cases.

I always appreciate your take on these legal issues.

So let's jump right in out of Park City, Utah. Prosecutors tore into a

wife and mother accused of her husband's poisoning death, portraying the woman as a monster

whose hunger for money knew no bounds. Corey Richens was quiet in the courtroom as she faced

opening statements in her trial for the fentanyl overdose of her late husband,

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