One tells the crime. One hears it for the first time.
Today’s episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we’ve covered so far: a woman who wrote a children’s grief book after her husband’s death, then was later convicted of murdering him.
Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022.
At first, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving widow trying to help her children process the loss of their father. But investigators uncovered a very different story involving financial pressure, life insurance, forged documents, a prior poisoning attempt, and a marriage where Eric had reportedly feared his wife was trying to kill him.
Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, the Utah grief-book author convicted of murdering her husband, Eric, with fentanyl.
At first, she appeared to be a widow helping her children process their father's death.
But investigators found financial pressure, life-insurance disputes, forged documents, and a prior poisoning attempt behind the public grief.
This is the case of Diane Downs, a mother who drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car.
She said a stranger attacked them on a dark rural road.
But the story did not fit, and her surviving daughter would later say there was no stranger.
This is the case of Jennifer Pan, whose mother was killed and whose father was left for dead inside their home.
At first, it looked like a home invasion.
Then the father survived, and the story behind the 911 call began to fall apart.
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