How Did Todd Gabler Go From Civil Case to Building the Case Against Kouri Richins?

Kouri Richins' third most frequent phone contact in the months her husband died wasn't a friend, a colleague, or a family member. It was her housekeeper — a woman with a drug-related criminal history who was testing positive in drug court. Todd Gabler found that in the billing records before anyone with a badge did.

Then he pulled the phone records. Between January and May 2022, Kouri Richins was in near-constant communication with a woman named Carmen Lauber. Lauber was the family's housekeeper. She also had an extensive drug-related criminal history and was testing positive in drug court around the time Eric died. Gabler flagged it immediately and started investigating Lauber before the Sheriff's Office had identified her as relevant to the case.

From there, the scope of the investigation expanded in ways Gabler hadn't anticipated. Nearly 50 interviews. GPS tracking on multiple vehicles. An entire side of the family that wouldn't speak to him. And a growing body of evidence that was pulling a career defense investigator across the courtroom for the first time in his life. In Part 1 of this three-part sit-down, Gabler walks Tony through the beginning — how a civil assignment became the foundation of a criminal prosecution.

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