Did the State Prove It? The Complete Kouri Richins Trial Breakdown

Three weeks. 42 witnesses. Zero defense witnesses called. And a jury left to decide whether a mountain of circumstantial evidence adds up to proof beyond a reasonable doubt — or just a very compelling story.

Kouri Richins is accused of fatally poisoning her husband Eric with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022, allegedly slipping it into a cocktail she made for him at their home near Park City, Utah. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery.

This episode is the complete trial breakdown — every layer of the prosecution's case examined and evaluated. The alleged $4.5 million in debt and the prenuptial agreement prosecutors say made divorce unthinkable. The housekeeper who testified she procured fentanyl for Kouri four separate times — each time being sent back for something stronger. The Valentine's Day sandwich prosecutors say was the first poisoning attempt. The hundreds of deleted messages from the exact months in question. The phone searches for "fentanyl poisoning," "death benefit insurance payouts," and "deleting iPhone messages" — all conducted before her arrest. The six-page letter written in jail appearing to direct family members toward false testimony. The ghostwritten children's grief book promoted on local television as her own work. And the question Kouri allegedly asked her boyfriend two weeks after Eric died: what does it feel like to kill someone?

No smoking gun. A thousand cuts instead. This is all of them — laid out, evaluated, and handed back to you.

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Everyone knows Kouri Richins poisoned her husband. The jury said so in three hours. She’s serving life without parole. But the murder conviction is one case. The fraud is another. And the fraud case t...

6 Aug 21min

What Kouri Richins' Lawyers Filed To Overturn Her Conviction

Kouri Richins wants a new trial. She was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery in the fentanyl poisoning of her husband Eric Richins. She was sentenced to life...

28 Jul 28min

Why Did Kouri Richins Roll Her Eyes As Her Children Described Their Fear?

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 j...

12 Jul 53min

What Did Kouri Richins' Own Sons Ask The Judge To Do?

The most devastating voices at the Kouri Richins sentencing weren't the lawyers. They were her children. This look back sits with the hearing where three boys, through their therapists, told a Park Ci...

8 Jul 49min

What Did Kouri Richins Say After Her Sons Begged To Be Kept Safe?

Kouri Richins' children asked a judge to keep her locked away forever. Minutes later, she stood up and told them she's coming home. This look back sits with both — the words three boys wrote, and the ...

8 Jul 1h 17min

Why Couldn't Kouri Richins Stop Performing The Grieving Widow?

After Eric Richins died, Kouri did something that still unsettles people: she put out a children's book about a father who dies and watches over his children, then went on morning television and perfo...

7 Jul 25min

What Comes Next For Kouri Richins After The Guilty Verdict?

The jury wanted to find her not guilty. That's not spin — that's close to what the foreperson said. The panel came in sympathetic, hoping Kouri Richins was innocent, looking for a way out. They delibe...

6 Jul 28min

Why Do Killers Like Kouri Richins Always Get Caught Eventually?

Every long con depends on one thing: silence, forever. And forever turns out to be a very long time. This look back uses the Kouri Richins conviction as the starting point for a hard truth about these...

5 Jul 38min