
This episode explores the psychological motivations behind Kouri Richins' actions leading to her husband's death.
Valentine's Day 2022. Kouri Richins gave her husband a fentanyl-laced sandwich. He got violently sick. He called friends and told them he thought he was dying. He survived. Seventeen days later, she put five times the lethal dose in a Moscow Mule. He didn't survive.Most people can't get past the horror of the act itself. But the seventeen-day window between the first attempt and the second is the most psychologically revealing piece of evidence in this case. Because normal fear, normal guilt, normal self-preservation should have kicked in after Valentine's Day. Instead, what kicked in was revision.This episode launches a five-part series breaking down the psychology of Kouri Richins' decision-making — not the evidence, but the wiring. How a woman $4.5 million in debt projected an image of success that fooled everyone around her. How an affair became a rehearsal for a life that required her husband's absence. How the prenup made divorce financially unacceptable and death financially attractive. And how seventeen days of recalibration tells you more about what's broken inside her than any single piece of evidence at trial. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES &…
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