Eric Richins' Family, the Children's Book, and the Questions That Survive the Verdict
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The episode discusses the implications of Kouri Richins' conviction on her family and the community, as well as the fate of her children's book.
The jury came back guilty. For the family of Eric Richins, that word carries everything they fought for over four years of investigation, hearings, and trial. And yet the questions that settle into a family after a verdict like this — they don't disappear when the gavel comes down. This week on Hidden Killers, we look at what the conviction of Kouri Richins means for the people who were closest to Eric — and for the community that followed this case from the beginning. A jury found that Kouri Richins poisoned her husband with fentanyl. She had, in the time after his death, written and published a children's grief book — "Are You With Me?" — about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She appeared on morning television. She performed the grief in public, in print, and in front of cameras. What happens to that book, and its royalties, now that its author has been convicted of killing the man it was written about? Carmen Lauber, who allegedly supplied the fentanyl, walked with an immunity deal. For a family that spent years seeking accountability, how does that land? Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to address the question that may matter most…
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