Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop — Even With Every Call Recorded?
About this episode
This episode explores why Kouri Richins continued to manage her narrative despite the legal repercussions.
From a jail cell. On recorded lines. Through smuggled letters hidden in LSAT prep books. Through phone calls where she read other inmates' mail to her mother. Through video calls where she held up documents for her mother to photograph. Every rule broken. Every consequence ignored. And when caught, not silence — another story. A fictional novel. About a Mexican prison.The question this episode answers is why. Why couldn't Kouri Richins stop managing the narrative even when every attempt to manage it made her legal situation worse? The answer isn't recklessness and it isn't stupidity. It's a reflex — a story-generating mechanism that fires automatically under threat, overriding risk assessment, self-preservation, and rational calculation.Part three of five in a deep dive into the psychology behind Kouri Richins' decision-making. The "Walk the Dog" letter. The fictional novel defense. The fired attorneys. The escalating narratives. And a machine that can't be shut down because shutting it down means facing what's underneath. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out…
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