The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she would not be testifying. This Read more…
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution’s drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other changed her account of what Read more…
When you don’t have much, do you blame the victim? That’s the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it’s one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, has seen play out in Read more…
CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case. Three years later, Ruby’s children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt’s house. Part 4 of “The Good Mother” examines what happens when you see abuse, Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what it does to the people Read more…
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, 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 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 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 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 Read more…
