Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive. She was Lori’s best friend. She heard Chad Daybell’s zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked her to lie to police, she finally understood: she’d been used as an alibi for Read more…
Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she’s leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own. Tony Brueski examines the full arc of this case with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke — Read more…
Detective Jeff O’ Driscoll, Summit Co. Sheriff’s Dept., takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before Read more…
You’ve seen the headlines about the Walk the Dog letter. Now hear it actually explained. Six handwritten pages. Written from jail. Titled by Kouri Richins herself as a destruction instruction — take vague notes, then walk the dog, meaning memorize it and make it disappear. It didn’t disappear. It’s state’s Read more…
Day 12 of the Kouri Richins murder trial delivered what the prosecution has been building toward for three weeks. Lead detective Jeff O’Driscoll took the stand as the state’s final witness and read aloud a six-page letter prosecutors say Richins wrote from jail — a letter titled “Walk the Dog!!” Read more…
They walked through that door and something was already wrong. Eric Richins’ family felt it before anyone could prove it — and spent years, six figures, and close to a thousand hours of a private investigator’s time trying to force the world to catch up to what their instincts already Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has given us something rare: a documented, witness-by-witness record of every person allegedly used along the way. A boyfriend. A best friend. A housekeeper. Friends who lost money. Each one, according to prosecutors, served a function — until they didn’t. Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Read more…
Jeff O’Driscoll, Summit County Detective, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What Read more…
8 Passengers had a billion views. Six children filmed five days a week from birth. Milestones were content. Punishments were content. Worst moments got the most views. Part 3 of “The Good Mother” examines the business underneath the Ruby Franke case: what happens when children become products, when childhood becomes Read more…
Jeff O’Driscoll, Summit County Detective, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What Read more…