How Did Kouri Richins Target A Man Who Had It All Together?
About this episode
The episode explores how Kouri Richins targeted a seemingly successful man, Eric Richins, through psychological manipulation and control mechanisms.
Everyone assumes the people who end up with a dangerous partner are vulnerable or naive. The Kouri Richins case tells a different story — and this look back sits with the harder, more unsettling version of it. Eric Richins was capable, successful, and by all accounts a man with his life together. According to prosecutors, that's exactly what made him a target. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has spent more than thirty years working with both survivors and perpetrators of intimate partner violence, joins to break down the opening playbook of someone operating with narcissistic or borderline traits — and why the people who seem least likely to fall for it often do. What love bombing actually feels like from the inside. How the earliest stages of a relationship like this are engineered to slip past your defenses. Why moving fast, building intense dependency, and rushing major milestones aren't signs of passion but mechanisms of control. Using this case as a real-world framework, Scott traces the targeting, the mirroring, the performance, and the moment the mask first starts to crack. We revisit where the case stood at the time of our reporting and keep the focus on the human…
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