Walk the Dog: What Kouri Richins Allegedly Wrote From Jail Finally Reached the Jury

For weeks, legal arguments kept it out of the courtroom. On day 12 of the Kouri Richins murder trial, the jury finally heard it — a six-page handwritten letter prosecutors say Richins wrote from jail, titled "Walk the Dog!!" and addressed to her mother, laying out what her family needed to say to build her defense from the outside.

According to prosecutors, the letter asks her brother to claim Eric Richins got fentanyl from Mexico through ranch workers. It instructs her mother to communicate only in person because the phones may be monitored. It tells someone to eliminate evidence of a relationship that doesn't look good. And it directs her mother to locate photos of Eric's sister's children and mail them anonymously to media — to make that sister, who filed a wrongful death lawsuit, "livid." The letter closes: "We're so close to the end. Let's push through."

Defense attorneys say the letter is fiction — pages from a mystery novel Richins was writing in her cell. It was found inside a book, not manuscript pages. It was never delivered to her mother or anyone else.

Lead detective Jeff O'Driscoll — the prosecution's final witness — also revealed that an orange notebook from the family home contained Kouri's own written timeline of the murder investigation, that her grief book was ghostwritten and described in texts as a stepping stone to a larger project, and that none of the fentanyl Lauber allegedly sold to Kouri was ever physically collected or tested. Jurors also watched footage of O'Driscoll telling Lauber she needed to provide details that would "ensure Kouri gets convicted of murder."

The prosecution rests after Thursday. The defense's next move — including whether Kouri Richins herself takes the stand — changes everything.

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