Kouri Richins Guilty: Eric Saw It Coming — So Did Bobby Curley. Neither One Survived It.
About this episode
The episode discusses the cases of Eric Richins and Bobby Curley, both victims of poisoning by their wives, highlighting the tragic reality of recognizing danger but being unable to escape it.
Eric Richins told people after Valentine's Day 2022 that he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He had been violently ill. He said it out loud to people he trusted. Prosecutors say Kouri made him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl approximately a month later. He was dead by morning. Bobby Curley grabbed a nurse's arm in a hospital on September 22, 1991. Weak, barely able to hold himself upright, he said clearly: "Please help me. My wife is trying to kill me. She is not as she seems." His heart stopped the next morning. Joann had been adding thallium to his iced tea every day for nearly a year. Hair analysis later confirmed eleven months of poisoning — nine hundred times the lethal dose administered over time, methodically, while he lost his hair and his hands burned and doctors couldn't explain what was happening. Two days before Bobby died, Joann collected a $1.7 million settlement. She needed him dead first. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, both men are at the center of the coverage Eric's community has been following — because both cases document the same unbearable truth: knowing what is happening to you is not the same as being able…
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