Kouri Richins Murder Trial: The Affair Texts, the Uinta Mountains Question, and the Secret Trust Eric Built to Protect His Kids

Day eight of the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah delivered the most emotionally charged testimony of the case so far — and it came not from a forensic expert or a law enforcement officer, but from the man Kouri Richins was in love with while her husband was still alive.

Robert Josh Grossman took the stand on the four-year anniversary of Eric Richins' death. He had moved to Utah for Kouri. She had bought him two trucks, gifted him a birthday trip to Saint Martin, and paid him $25,000 after Eric died. Prosecutors walked the jury through years of text messages — ending with Kouri's words just days before Eric's death: "If he could just go away and you could just be here. Life would be so perfect."

Grossman broke down reading them. When the judge called a recess and asked if he needed to stretch his legs, Grossman said: "It ain't the legs."

Prosecutors also used the day to show the jury who Eric Richins actually was behind closed doors — a man who had quietly consulted a divorce attorney in October 2020, built a trust naming his sister as trustee over $7.6 million in assets, and told his estate attorney that Kouri had used his power of attorney to take $250,000 of his money. He didn't revoke it. He said she was the mother of his children.

About two weeks after Eric's death, Kouri and Grossman drove to the Uinta Mountains. During that drive, according to Grossman, Kouri asked him what it feels like to kill someone. At the time, he thought nothing of it. Looking back, everything looked different.

The defense moved for a mistrial over newly disclosed information about Carmen Lauber. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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