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She poisoned her husband, then wrote a book about grief: The Kouri Richins story

March 24, 2026·58 min·5 clips
A mother writes a children's book about grief after her husband's death, then is convicted of murdering him.
This episode covers the conviction of Corey Richens for murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl, exploring how she wrote a children's book about grief to deceive others. Host Ana Garcia and guest Dr. Judy Ho discuss the psychological impact on the children, the trial details, and the financial motives behind the crime.

As heard by us

A case about debt, divorce, and a prosecutor's claim that Eric was worth more dead than alive.

The episode treats the case as a tangle of motive, money, and grief. It stays close to the parts that can be backed up: the divorce talk, the debt, the house flipping angle, and the prosecutor's view that Eric was worth more dead than alive.

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You want a true-crime case where grief, money, and a prosecutor's theory keep pulling hard against each other.

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