What Did Eric Richins Tell People About Kouri Before He Died?
About this episode
The episode explores the chilling details of Eric Richins' belief that his wife was trying to poison him before his death.
Eighteen days before he died, Eric Richins reportedly told more than one person he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He was right. This look back at the Kouri Richins case stays close to that devastating fact — a man who saw it coming, said so out loud, and died anyway. Kouri Richins was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery, and insurance fraud after a jury deliberated only about three hours. The story underneath the verdict is almost unbearable in its details: an earlier Valentine's Day attempt that failed, a reported text from her boyfriend that he'd blacked out after taking something she gave him, a cocktail carrying roughly five times a lethal dose of fentanyl, millions in debt, a forged insurance application — and the children's grief book she published after Eric was gone. We revisit where the case stood at the time of our reporting. This segment is for everyone who can't stop thinking about the warning that went unheeded. Eric named what was happening to him before it killed him. His family kept fighting for the truth long after — a private investigator they hired even became part of the prosecution's case. More than forty…
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