Why Did Kouri Richins Roll Her Eyes As Her Children Described Their Fear?
About this episode
The episode analyzes Kouri Richins' reactions in court as her children describe their fears and experiences.
Kouri Richins sat in a courtroom while her own children — all under fourteen — described locked doors, threats against their pets, and a mother they no longer call "mom." Every one of them asked the judge to put her away forever. And Kouri rolled her eyes. This look back, with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, sits with what those reactions revealed. The judge had asked for no outward reactions. She couldn't hold it for four minutes. As Eric's sister Amy described having urged her brother to leave the marriage, Kouri mouthed "what?" to her lawyers and made faces. As her own family stood to call her a good person, the tears came — reserved, it seemed, entirely for herself. Scott reads each reaction: what the contempt means, what the eye-rolling reveals, and what it tells us when a mother's response to her children's fear looks indistinguishable from her response to a minor annoyance. Then the boys' words, read by their counselors. The youngest said hearing her name makes him feel "hateful and ashamed." The oldest, just nine when his father died, wants her locked away because he's afraid she'll come for them. The middle son, prosecutors said, was a material witness whose account of…
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