Leaving is the most dangerous time. The moment you start seeing clearly is the moment risk spikes. The relationship was never about love. It was about control. When control slips, they tighten their grip. This is Part 5 of “Surviving the Fog”—examining escalation through the Kouri Richins case. We’re not Read more…
For 25 years, the Cascio family was Michael Jackson’s shield. They testified at his 2005 trial. Frank Cascio wrote a book defending him. They went on national television saying Jackson never harmed anyone. Now all five Cascio siblings are suing, alleging Jackson drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked them since childhood. Read more…
The Kouri Richins murder trial entered its ninth day with prosecutors unleashing their most personal evidence yet — the words of her closest friends and the text messages she sent in the weeks and months after her husband Eric Richins died of a fatal fentanyl overdose in 2022. A coworker Read more…
No arrest. No suspect. No person of interest. A month after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, investigators have nothing public to show—but innocent people are already paying the price. A 37-year-old man living with his elderly mother was handcuffed and questioned for hours after SWAT executed search Read more…
Forensic accounting testimony just painted the clearest picture yet of Kouri Richins’ financial situation—and it’s worse than anyone knew. Negative $1.6 million net worth. A business account “perpetually in the hole.” Checks bouncing constantly. Hard money loans with brutal interest rates coming due. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Read more…
July 2009. A fifteen-year-old girl answers her missing sister’s phone. A man’s voice asks: “Do you know what I did to your sister?” Amanda Barthelemy received seven calls over the following weeks. The man described what he’d done. On August 26, he said: “You won’t see her again. I killed Read more…
Allie Staking, friend of Kouri, takes the stand 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…
This extended Hidden Killers episode brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott in for comprehensive analysis of two cases united by a single theme: the construction of alternate realities. Kouri Richins appears to inhabit a different reality than everyone around her. Charged with murder, she wrote a grief book and promoted it on Read more…
Chelsea Barney, Friend of Kouri, 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…
Everyone loves them. You know what they’re really like at home. And you wonder if you’re crazy. This is Part 4 of “Surviving the Fog”—examining the psychology of the mask through the Kouri Richins case. We’re not diagnosing anyone. We’re exploring documented patterns. After Eric died, Kouri wrote a children’s Read more…