The Case Against Kouri Richins
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Utah mom Kouri Richins is accused of poisoning her husband with fentanyl before writing a children's book about death and grief. Richins is being held without bond until her trial.
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Getting a divorce is a lot easier than going through a trial and spending decades in prison for murdering your spouse. I'll never understand people who think homicide is the better choice.
She wanted to show a profit. Killing him was all she thought she could do. Pretty common, unfortunately. Casualties of the worship of money.
Life insurance and avoid the divorce settlement is why
And she demanded to wear her own clothes in court and not be handcuffed. I'd of loved to see her in an orange jumpsuit instead. She's not going to like prison.
Arrogance is a hell of a drug
Divorce attorney vs defense attorney. Semantics. The first so much cheaper.
This woman doesn't deserves his last name
I think that any woman that kills the husband that the name should be taken from them!
She also doesn't deserve to use his hard earned money for those private attorneys to defend her, either.
@@marygoff3332 totally agree
@@jennjohnson2303 totally
@@corinadaschievici1925 she made into today's edition of NBC Nightly News .
I love that his business partners and co workers were there for him. Thats so sweet ♥️😭👏🏼
I agree, that is very, very sweet of them. God bless their sweet hearts. ❤❤❤❤
But I don't understand, he knew/stated she tried to kill him once/twice. Why oh why did he stay? She is evil to the core!
@@lynnnelson6689 because of his boys. I mean, just hearing the evidence here, we see how evil she is. I think deep down he knew what she was capable of and didn’t wanna separate and take the chance of never seeing his kids cause let’s face it, she’d give him HELL in that process while also draining his bank accounts.
He also could have been second guessing himself. That doesn’t sound like something easy to accept.
@@lynnnelson6689 he was also (from everything I have gathered from this case thus far) taking steps to leave. I think he was either talking with or looking for an attorney I can’t remember specifically which one I heard.
@@chelly2468 You could be right. Reverse the position, wives take abuse, and for many reasons don't leave. This is so sad. I hope she never sees the light of day! Such an evil person. (BTW I was not judging him)
I'll never understand how murder is the option over divorce. These narcissistic sociopaths leave children parentless.. SO selfish.
$$ she wanted his money
Dolla dolla bills, y’all
She had life insurance polices on the kids too..
Well there was a prenup she had to sign before their wedding so a divorce would have left her with nothing. Of course better than where she is now though.
Some people just don't care
My heart goes out to Erics three sons and his family and friends. I hope she is found guilty and never gets out of prison, EVER‼️‼️‼️‼️
I’m so grateful that bail was denied.
Same!! I was sooo worried!
Tks for the info...great news..
There was absolutely no way she was getting bail regardless of her defense. No one in America is getting bail when facing charges this serious. Aggravated murder is a potential capital offense in Utah.
Amen
Oh i am so glad!
My child's father died 18 years ago. The worse moment of my life is telling our 9 year old Son it was a nightmare. Whyyyyyyy would anyone want to cause so much pain to their child. She is evil POS.
These are people who care solely for themselves.
White women 😂
@@LalithoTheRedBorderCollie I am white, but I do not use real name cause I don't want to offend my family members. Selena Sanchez has a pretty ring to it.
@@LalithoTheRedBorderCollieso you're a black woman? 😂
She was absolutely planning on going after her children next. No other reason for them to have life insurance. She is a cold hearted killer.
I think children should only have coverage for funeral costs. Paid directly to the funeral home. There is no reason for an adult to make a profit on the death of a child!
@@Plutogalaxy more like REST IN PEACE & LOVE MISS CLEO
Lots have insurance on their kids
@@abbyynorman2874 whatever-they don’t all kill their spouse either now do they🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@@kimsmith6342 life insurance is actually important for kids and adults
Eric sounds like a sweet man. So sorry for his family and his precious sons.. what agony, sorrow. I hope those boys know that God himself is the father of the fatherless and God is close to the broken-hearted.. thinking and praying for those boys
Such a beautiful message for the boys. They will need to know that now.❤
I hope they're not with her parents. They already did a bad job raising her, completely unethical, amoral person.
She totally laughed when they were talking about her sending a text to her friend when her friend asked if she did CPR. She is disgusting!
I saw that too. Disgusting.
I know! You are so right, I noticed that right away too, she is really evil!! she reminds me of Jody Arias, sheer evil, sociopath, no conscious, a real witch!
@@bethneel6749 When??
Shivers ☠️🖤☠️
She sure did!
5:00 Calling her an “author” is kind of an insult to actual authors. She used a website, filled out a questionnaire, maybe had a bit of back and forth for clarification, then had her name printed on the published book. At best, she “oversaw the writing of a book.”
I know. Everybody has a book nowadays.
It's not impossible to be a talented writer and a killer. That's just not the case here.
She has a good idea and sold it successfully.
@@lc6636 Where can I find her book? I'm curious to read it but can't find it anywhere online.
@@tqsuited It was a children's book. I am not sure if it is sold anymore since she killed her husband.
Gotta love how she switched from “duping delight” to “grieving widow mode” as soon as she realized the cameras were on her. What an awful spirit
I do not understand how these people think they are smart enough to get away with murder, and how dumb they think the cops are.
Exactly like Somero said. Narcs dont realise they're sick and delusional. They genuinely believe they're super intelligent like no one else. She believed she could get away with it. Crazy.
Delusional obviously since she thought there were luxury prisons for rich people! 😂😂🤣🤣
@@Juke582pfffbt right. Lmao! The level of this woman is something else.
I hope my family never sees this: Have you met a cop? 🤓
Jeffery dahmer got lucky with his cops 😂
I pray she loses absolutely everything she has left including her kids I hope they are raised by his family
Eric’s sister, Katie is raising those precious boys. Kouri didn’t know that Eric had changed his Will and left everything in a trust for his sons and so Katie can raise them. Kouri was a checkout girl at Home Depot when they met. Eric was an extremely hard worker and was worth 3 million when he met her. She wanted him to buy her a 20,000 square foot home and he told her he didn’t think it was a good ideal. She buys that home the day after he died and had the audacity to have a party there that day! I think greed is why she murdered him!!
@@bbe3034 Man. This is old school villain material. If a novel was submitted for publication w/similar plot twists, it would seem like overkill.
@@bbe3034 if the money goes to the sister how did she get the money to buy that house?
@@PAYDAYHEDGEshe didn’t. She had yet to pay the house.
He was loved and respected as shown by his employees being there at the courthouse for the bond hearing.❤
Gave me the chills when I heard that. It’s very telling! ♥️
@@chelly2468 Yes definitely!!! You can tell that he treated his employees with respect and kindness!!!
6 life insurance policies and a gut full of fentanyl. It’s laughable that she thought she could get away with this. Evil is one thing, stupid is a whole other level. Seriously.
It also highlights how ignoring the red flags can lead to deadly consequences. The guy already had suspicions that she tried to poison him, was informed that she was messing with his life insurance & raising the payout if anything happened to him, yet he didn’t file for divorce & full custody because he was scared of losing the boys. Sad situation
A - to call her a “Children’s author” is a JOKE because she had a book ghost written by an online company that takes your idea, puts words to it and illustrates it for you then helps market it about the husband she killed 😅 like how nuts is that? B - Did you see the gorgeous home they were living in? More than most would ever dream of but she pushed her husband to buy a 2 million dollar unfinished mansion in the middle of nowhere and he refused, so she closed the day after she killed him.
You couldn’t write a movie script crazier than that…
Kimberly Hricko🚩
😂😂for sure
That was the ugliest fuckin mansion, too
Yes ma'am 😘 facts 💯 👌 🙏🏾 🇰🇾
She’s maintaining her innocence no matter what the evidence shows like a true narcissistic sociopath
Bit like the border patrol agent murder his mistress n baby 😮
What a total narcissist. Those poor kids
I am SO relieved that the judge denied her bail! Her sister in law testimony was so powerful. Hers alone said it all. I agree that Kourie is dangerous and since she’s in so much debt those three boys are not safe. I’m praying Eric’s family is reunited with them. They need stability and love now. Vinny and Chantily, you’re both looking absolutely gorgeous tonight! As usual! Great reporting! Thank you!
What the evidence though
She’s rolled those eyes so many times… any jury will see her arrogance.
Why did he stay if he suspected his wife was poisoning him? That's what her attorney is going to ask the jury
Put yourself in his shoes. Even if he did think she was poisoning him, that’s got to be one of the most paranoid feelings in the world. He probably doubted his own mind and kept telling himself it’s too crazy to believe, and then he was dead.
People do really crazy stuff to keep their family together. If you don't have kids or a wife it would be especially hard to understand
@@TentinQuarantino_ Absolutely. I imagine he was gaslit and lovebombed so he decided to take a chance on what he thought was love over his gut feelings.
He stayed for the kids 😢
I’m not sure I believe this because if I suspected someone was poisoning me I would NEVER drink from anything they give me again it’s common sense right? Pretend ur drinking it but don’t? Idk wat actual evidence do they have against her? How do we know he didn’t take drugs ? I’m just asking the questions we all should be asking because the media lies awhole lot
She's a crazy vicious woman. And to think she'd get away with all the evidence she left behind is insane. I hope they never bring those boys to see her ever again
Yeah I am really curious what her opinion is about how Eric ingested the fentanyl ... if she wasn't the one who gave it to him.
You grown ups that think using children against adults think it hurts just the adult is just plain ignorant
@@abbyynorman2874 The immaturity and vengeful quality of commentators is only going to ramp up as this case inches forward.
Fortunately, humanity and sentience find their way into the comment section, as well. (The mote in my own eye is judging judgemental folks. I'm on it.) 😂
From what I hearing there no evidence except for a house keeper who would lie since she being charged with selling drugs
@@rachelwalsh6116 Where did you get that information?? Just curious.
Clear & convincing evidence 🙌🏼no bail…. Thank you to the judge!!!this chick is so money hungry it’s sick 😭
She was laughing when they were talking about cpr and text.
Laughing in her own murder trial. lol
I don't understand how she took out 6 life insurances without her husband's consent. The insurance company has a problem, you think?
Yeah big problem
No. Life insurance doesn't require consent. Why should it?
You can get one on anyone. Also I saw a video where Walmart took out policies on employees that had cancer?
So it is just wrong.
Companies want to make money.
Consent should be required so you'd know /suspect when somebody wants you dead.
@@darrylg3861 why should it? you cant put 2 and 2 together from this case and figure out the answer to that? not much goin on upstairs huh
Cell phones and computers are the gift that keeps on giving.When are these killers going to realize that everything you do leaves a trail? They think they're so smart.
She lacks self preservation-who would laugh and roll eyes?
Leticia stauch did and she laughed
Where ??
I'm watching Her eyes 👀 closely and Wow! She gets upset Alot! Looking at her Attorney ⚖️🗝️
@@nicolepantovich3650she's a nutbar tho. Total loony tunes that one
@@denisehagwood4542 yes I agree lol
I love that Eric changed the beneficiary on his life insurance over to his sister. That's very telling. He should have filed for divorce, asked for custody of the kid's and left that Witch. Justice for Eric may he rest in peace ♥️
Money can always be made, you don’t have to resort to murder. You’ll always get caught!!! Freedom and divorced is always gonna beat widowed and in prison every time..
Thank God she didn't Male bond . She's a devious, dangerous person and I'm glad she's not getting out.
Make*
Do you think she was crying? It looks like she has no emotions to me. Dead inside almost. IMO
@@sula1529 Murdaugh tears.
@@sula1529 Yes. She’s a psychopath.
@@mortalclown3812 yes he pinched between his eyes as well. Is her lawyer falling for this? What is happening to all these people? Why?
I saw no tears. At all.
She is mean.
She is like a mean girl in high school.
Crocodile she demon...with a deceptive face...a true monster...
Psychopath plain and simple zero empathy for others incl her kids
Dang. She does look completely evil and it totally reminds me of my sister who is narcissist and puts on a show of Miss nice and sweetheart but then there's this evil evil look that comes into her eyes when her narcissistic rage hits and it gets worse as she gets older and it's scary and it's creepy to see darkness take over somebody's eyes and to complete evil rage over the years
I agree I have someone in my family like that too that I keep at a distance
i have a super narcissistic relative and it defintely gets worse with age
me too. My sister exactly and it has got much worse as she ages-now 51..
Crystal - I have 2 of those sisters and one of them is a crazy scary psycho! I have stayed away from them since 2003! They are jealous of me and might kill me.
@@Juke582 Stay safe. Mine said she'd kill me if she could get away with it. It's an epidemic
She's where she belongs. In jail. Those poor little boys, there father murdered by their mother
Beautiful life on the outside …. No one knows the reality behind closed doors .
Don't live beyond your means. Don't covet what others have. Don't above all use others' lives for your own ends only. This woman is a moral criminal, a narcissist and a psychopath. We seem to be seeing more and more of such women recently.
What I don’t understand, is that how did she really, really think she’ll get away with this ? In 2023 , everything is online and on ur electronics,, why not walk away ? It would’ve been a lot easier to call a divorce attorney….
Psychopath types often overestimate their intelligence, thinking they're smarter than the police and everyone else.
@@claricelyles8398 🎯
I guess this is what happens when you mix narcissism and psychopathy with a low IQ. They think they are smart and will get away with it. Since this was financially motivated she wouldn’t have received all the money that she wanted if they had just divorced.
I'm guessing she thought Eric had a lot of dirt on her which would have likely made a divorce battle a nightmare for her, although family court too often favours the female. In her twisted mind, it was easier to kill him and hope for the best. She appears to have been taking risks all her life, so why not the ultimate one: murder.
Narcissists don’t live in reality at all!
Feel so bad for the kids here. Losing both parents at such a young age is certainly traumatic for these innocent children. Both parents gone because of extreme greed of a cold hearted woman. So sad 😞
My only surprise is that Kouri wasn't wearing glasses for her court appearance.
Good a judge with sense.
She's looking worried. When it comes to her own life, not the lives of people she's destroyed, then she starts feeling.
That book just looks absolutely chilling in hindsight, like a sick joke
It's insane how she was on shows promoting her book without a care in the world looking so calm and collected. She is so scary. Nobody would see her coming.
Life insurance companies need to develop an online site that lists the names of people who buy multiple policies from different insurance offices.
Noooo! They need to witness the signatures as this evil thing forged them!!!!
She needs it rid of that attorney! She’s not doing her any favors
She is so so guilty.
Thank goodness there is a treasure trove of evidence against her too! She is done! There is not only a paper trail (bank statements/check to a dealer) but there is a trail of meta data as well.
He thinks she is poisoning him, but takes drink from her and continues to live under the same roof?
Baffling set of circumstances for sure. The defense is likely going to jump on this to argue that he could not have been so suspicious of her poisoning him if he continued to eat and drink from her. Moreover, apparently while several of his family members alleged that he told them if something happened to him, she did it ... there is no trail of his fears against his wife - no text messages, no email, no written statement to a legal authority that he was in fear for his life. Just the family's word. This is a weakness in the prosecutor's case, but I think the mountain of other circumstantial evidence still stack up against Kouri. She was deeply in debt and he was more useful to her dead than alive.
I will wait for the trial and all of the evidence to make up my mind but from what was said at the hearing; there's more than enough evidence to convict her.
Vinnie, you and your reporters must have nerves of steel to cover these trials day after day. I'm exhausted from watching this one video. Thanks!
...Kouri has a look of disdain ??
..annoyance ?? Hey, let's buy a 2mil house & party ??😮🎉😂
That crazy lady was partying just a couple of days after she killed her husband when the home purchase went through. She does not have a soul.
Thank you Vinnie. I love your passion & compassion with every case ❤❤❤
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That judge's commanding baritone delivering righteous words. Yesss.
Starting out on the right foot. (Biased commentary, of course.)
This was the most powerful bond hearing I've seen tho I've read some scary federal ones w/terrorists etc.
Yes! I was stunned by the powerful good looking eloquent Judge! He is amazing in presence, voice, demeanor, perfect looks! I am always impressed with the many great Judges in court systems we have across this country!
E.V.I.L. Period and pure. She is one scary woman. Honestly she seems more evil than Leticia Stauch and Lori Vallow. Although their horrific crimes are against children, which is its own kind of evil, this Kouri just seems so unhinged and filled with rage it’s all over her face and in her body language.
Yeah she is the real devil 👿 and her mother has mental illness and could not care for the kids! Her father is deceased! That helped his family (sister) get the kids!
Agree with everything you said. She may be more similar to Vallow and Stauch than we initially thought. I honestly think she was going after her kids next! She took out life insurance policies on her own children. Who does that??
Nope, Vallow is worse. She had her own children murdered.
@@denisehagwood4542 yeah, I cannot disagree. There’s a special place in Hell for her type of murder….
@@denisehagwood4542💯
She guilty,, I guarantee it.. Utah still have the death penalty as the firing squad.. I hope they decide to use that on her ,,.
I read somewhere that Eric suspected she was trying to poison him. So, if he knew, WHY did he accept the drinks/food offered to him by her?
It's very strange since she attempted to poison him twice before and he even told his friends and family. People say that he stayed for the kids but what good is he to his kids if he''s dead?
@@Plutogalaxy Even when he's dead so their children lose both parents?
He probably was on denial.
He probably was told, or told himself, he was just paranoid.
I don't have children but if you can unalive their father for money and sympathy, then take out a life insurance on the children you are capable of anything. Bail denied and I hope she looses custody while at it.
A beautiful young man. What a spoilt evil woman! RIP Eric🌹gone but never forgotten. Thank you Vinnie for your passionate & compassionate coverage of every case. ❤️👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
He had horrible taste in women tho
When are these criminals gonna get it.. the cell phones will give you away every time .
Why would he stay when he thought she was poisoning him? So sad.
Yes exactly. There's more to the story. He blatantly didn't trust her but yet drank her beverage? 🤔
There’s no reason this channel doesn’t have millions of subscribers- especially now.
Thank you for really great content-
She needs to stop shaking her head back-and-forth as if saying, no. Not a good look. She did this many times during this hearing.
Poor man. This story is usually about a man killing his wife but the tables are turned here. Kouri took a good father away from his children. Now the children will have no parents once the wicked witch goes to prison. All over money. Dirty money.
Marriage comes with a significant risk of death these days.
Great story telling Vinnie!!! You are the best at that!!! ❤️
of COURSE she only broke down when the ONE person who is still alive and well and knows just who the hell she is SPOKE THE DAMNING TRUTH ABOUT HER .... narcissistic behavior on POINT.
Now she can write a book on how to deal with being charged and denied bond in non-rich-people prison after a murder.
We need more judges like this, thank you!
There is so much much evidence against her. She had everything and it wasn’t enough. She is so guilty.
We JUST convicted Murdaugh for a money motivated double murder and yet we always have to question why and how money is a motive. It's basically the strongest motive along infidelity, rage, or preserving public image.
Are these people so delusional they think they won't get caught?? Omg
I simply CANNOT understand how someone can put themselves in the position to have to watch their children mourn the loss of a parent…..diabolical 🤯Why are their so many spousal murders? How can you hate someone so much that you once loved enough to marry? WTF!! It’s so baffling and twisted. Incomprehensible.
And then try to profit from it.
Yea and have a party
A lot of sick narcissists in this country!!!!
It doesn't make sense that he would drink something she made for him when he suspected her already of trying to poison him 🤔
I'm sure people told him, or he told himself, he was paranoid.
What a great young judge. Glad she didn't get bail.
For the guys that worked for him to turn up like that shows how much he was liked , she is pure evil
She's got Curella Deville as an attorney....LMAO!!
I am so glad this judge is allowing cameras in the courtroom and that he wouldn't allow a gag order!! I do not yet know if Kouri is guilty yet or not. I hope the state has more evidence against her than just CL's testimony. It will be interesting to learn about the rest of the evidence and to hear both sides.
Why do these people stay with a person that they know is tryIng to kill them? It happens all the time.😐
Life insurance
@@blackrainbow192 You clearly didn't comprehend what he was saying. He's saying why he would stay with her. The answer to that is that he was planning on divorcing and spoke about it with friends and family. Things were probably complicated because of the 3 kids.
I will never understand being so greedy and narcissistic that you’d kill someone rather than just split and go live your life.
So incredibly sad for the husband, his kids and his family/friends!! She needs to b put away forever!! Her smirk smh!!
her body language is guilty.She wants to rage so badly. I can tell she wanted to attack his sister as she was on the stand with an victim impact statement. I hope she spends life in prison.
How does a person really think they will get away with alleged murder?. Unbelievable! Definitely no bail!
People questioning why didn’t she just divorce him? Remember she took out 6 insurance policies and also thought she would be the sole owner of his estate after death. Divorce would have got her SOME money but not as much as she thought she would get from murdering him, smh. Poor man, and those babies.
She also didn’t write the book she paid for a company to write it?
What made her think she was going to get away with this? So dumb
Inside Edition is reporting a mom threatening to kill her husband and divorcing him for smashing their one year old birthday cake in her face.
What?
What’s the title
@@VeeAmericanEagle husband pushes son’s birthday cake into moms face
Sometimes a cake to the face seems necessary tbf.
This deserves its own Netflix show
Hubby getting the last laugh beyond the grave by switching everything over to his sister.
Straight sociopathic. How crazy that he was so astute tho to update his will yet didn’t leave.
Add spoilt & entitled then your description is perfect 👌
Her greed was beyond insane.
She needs to get out for what reason? There is no reason. Now they have to find her boyfriend, and where all the money went.
Her female defense attorney is so distracted by the cameras. Every video I’ve watched she’s playing with her hair so flashing smiles. 😂
If they had a beautiful home and he was co-owner of a company, why was she millions of dollars in debt?
Killing the father of your children for what???? Insane, legit insane, this world is crazy sometimes and G-d is there to watch and more importantly judge us all..
Why would he stay if he knew? I dont get it.
She wasn’t “breaking down” she wasn’t crying at all
What was the excuse? " My husband just decided to get addicted to fentanyl as a mid-life crisis." It's happened before but she was gonna throw away his reputation to get away with it?
Literally sitting in jail, caged, done for good - all for what?! Not only is it completely wrong, do these murderers actually think they'll get away with it?! I have no words for the Google searches. WTAF? 🤦🏻♀️
Sjohnstone,,, exactly it blows my mind, it’s like they don’t have an inner monologue or something, you would think they would think, you know maybe I better not do this because chances are I will get caught , but they still do it . Criminals are really really stupid, now she has to rot in a small cell till she dies. It’s incomprehensible
@@clintoruss153 no inner monologue must be it. I never thought about it that way. Well said.
How do you tell children that their mother killed they're father? I have no compassion for this woman.
Chanley is America's most beautiful lady.
If he didn't trust couri and believed she was trying to kill him, WHY did he consume the drink she made for him the evening he died? Also why didn't he just divorce her?? Yeah yeah he wanted to work it out for the kids but isn't it better to be divorced and alive for the kids than married and dead? He could afford to get his own place or move in with his parents temporarily. I just don't get it. Please someone explain the logic here. Couri could've also chosen divorce. He would've had to pay her child support and possibly spousal support. Why do people kill when there's other options???
I think she made a lot of money as time went on. It is so sad he couldn't leave somehow.
@@shelso1300 He still made more money than her though. She should've just left him if she wasn't happy. He should've left her if he didn't trust her. They both had the means to leave. That's a much better choice than homicide. You're no good to your kids if you're dead or in jail. 🙄
I've never seen a defendent completely fail, I mean completely, unable to express or even fake tears and mourning.