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Mega Edition: Kouri Richin's And The Moscow Mule Murder (10/5/26) · Beyond The Horizon

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. On
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Speaker 1: today's episode, we're going to talk about a mom from
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Speaker 1: Utah who wrote a kid's book about grief after her
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Speaker 1: husband's death. Well, now she's being charged with his murder.
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting some Nancy Crampton Brophy feels here, huh?
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Speaker 1: Another person that thought they were going to get away
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Speaker 1: with killing their husband. Today's article is from CNN and
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Speaker 1: the headline. A Utah mom wrote a kid's book about
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Speaker 1: grief after her husband's death. Now, she's charged with his murder.
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Speaker 1: So not only did she kill him, she tried to
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Speaker 1: benefit financially on the back of that murder, at least
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Speaker 1: according to the state. The authors of this article are
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Speaker 1: Faith Karimi, Andy Babenow, and Sarah Finch. Corey Richen's husband
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Speaker 1: was found dead at the foot of their bed last March.
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Speaker 1: She'd just closed on a house for her business, she
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Speaker 1: told investigators.
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Speaker 2: At the time.
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Speaker 1: Around 9 p.m., she brought her husband, Eric Richens, a
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Speaker 1: celebratory Moscow Mule cocktail in the bedroom of their home
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Speaker 1: in Camas, Utah. She left to sleep with their son
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Speaker 1: in his room and returned around 3 a.m. to find
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Speaker 1: her husband lying on the floor cold to the touch,
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Speaker 1: she told authorities. About a year to the day after
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Speaker 1: her husband died, Richens published a children's book, Are you
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Speaker 1: with me? About navigating grief after the loss of a
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Speaker 1: loved one. I know that I shouldn't be shocked by
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Speaker 1: this sort of thing, but every time we hear a
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Speaker 1: story about one of these people who kills their wife
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Speaker 1: or their husband or their children, it blows my mind.
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Speaker 1: Like at what point inside of your inner monologue does
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Speaker 1: that become a good idea? I'd like to offer you
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Speaker 1: an alternative. You know what that alternative is? One, don't
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Speaker 1: kill your children. And two, just leave your husband or
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Speaker 1: your wife. Pretty simple, right? But investigators now allege she
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Speaker 1: killed her husband of nine years with a lethal dose
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Speaker 1: of illicit fentanyl. This month, they charged her with aggravated
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Speaker 1: murder and three counts of possession of a controlled substance
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Speaker 1: with the intent to distribute. So they slapped her with
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Speaker 1: all the charges possible, right? Not only the charges about
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Speaker 1: her husband dying, but also got her ass on possession
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Speaker 1: and intent to distribute, which carries a significant sentence, especially
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Speaker 1: when you're talking about fentanyl. Newly released court documents detailed
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Speaker 1: a series of illicit fentanyl purchases in the months leading
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Speaker 1: up to his death. Corey Richens, 33, allegedly bought the
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Speaker 1: drugs from an acquaintance identified as CL in court documents.
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Speaker 1: Weeks before her husband's death, the Richens had marked Valentine's
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Speaker 1: Day with a dinner at home. Shortly after the dinner,
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Speaker 1: Eric became very ill. Eric told a friend that he
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Speaker 1: thought his wife was trying to poison him. Court documents
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Speaker 1: say Corey Richens also tried to change a life insurance
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Speaker 1: policy to make herself the sole beneficiary, according to a
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Speaker 1: search warrant affidavit. Richens was arrested Monday and remains in custody.
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Speaker 1: CNN has reached out to her attorneys for comment. And
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Speaker 1: it always cracks me up when these people think that
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Speaker 1: they're going to go in there and dick around with
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Speaker 1: the insurance policy and then end up not getting caught.
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Speaker 1: Breaking news, you're going to get caught. As we've seen
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Speaker 1: time and time again, And as we're seeing right now
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Speaker 1: in real time, as Lori Vallow is going up in flames.
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Speaker 1: He had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system.
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Speaker 1: An autopsy and toxicology report revealed that Eric Richens, 39,
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Speaker 1: died of a fentanyl overdose. He had about five times
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Speaker 1: the lethal dosage in his system, according to a medical examiner.
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Speaker 1: Investigators obtained a search warrant and seized his wife's phone
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Speaker 1: and several computers in their home. They discovered communications between
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Speaker 1: Corey Richens and CL, who had an extensive police record
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Speaker 1: that included drug-related offenses, court documents say. CL told detectives
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Speaker 1: that at some point between December 2021 and February 2022,
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Speaker 1: Corey contacted CL and asked for prescription pain pills for
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Speaker 1: an investor. CL said they obtained hydrocodone and left the
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Speaker 1: pills at a property Corey was flipping. Picking up cash
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Speaker 1: left for them, court documents say. A couple of weeks later,
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Speaker 1: Corey Richens reached out again and asked for some of
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Speaker 1: the Michael Jackson stuff, according to court documents. Corey Richens
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Speaker 1: allegedly went to CL's house around February 11th and paid
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Speaker 1: $ 900 for 15 to 30 fentanyl pills that CL had
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Speaker 1: obtained from a dealer. About two weeks later, on February 26th,
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Speaker 1: she allegedly reached out to CL for more fentanyl pills.
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Speaker 1: CL left them at an outdoor fire pit at the
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Speaker 1: same property where the hydrocodone had been delivered. Again, the
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Speaker 1: money was left there for pickup. By this time, according
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Speaker 1: to court documents, Corey Richens no longer owned the property.
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Speaker 1: So they had like a dead drop set up and everything.
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Speaker 1: Little Miss Mormon Mary by day and Avon Barksdale by night.
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Speaker 1: He died six days after an alleged pill delivery.
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Speaker 2: About 3.30 a.m.
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Speaker 1: On March 4th, 2022, Summit County Sheriff's deputies and EMS
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Speaker 1: personnel responded to a report of an unresponsive man at
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Speaker 1: the couple's home. First responders unsuccessfully tried to revive Eric Richens.
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Speaker 1: It was six days after the latest alleged pill delivery.
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Speaker 1: His wife gave investigators her version of what happened that night.
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Speaker 1: The couple was celebrating closing on a house for her business,
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Speaker 1: and she brought him a cocktail in bed. Corey Richens
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Speaker 1: said she left him in the room and went to
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Speaker 1: sleep with one of her three sons in his room
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Speaker 1: because the child was having a night terror, court documents say.
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Speaker 1: Defendant said she awoke around 3 a.m. and came back
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Speaker 1: to her and Eric's bedroom. She felt Eric and he
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Speaker 1: was cold to the touch. That is when the defendant
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Speaker 1: called 911, court documents say. Corey Richens allegedly told law
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Speaker 1: enforcement officials that she left her phone plugged in next
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Speaker 1: to her bed and did not take it to her
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Speaker 1: son's room. However, between when the defendant said she went
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Speaker 1: to the child's room and when she called 911, the
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Speaker 1: status on her phone shows that it was locked and
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Speaker 1: unlocked multiple times, and there was also movement recorded on
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Speaker 1: the phone. In addition, tolls on defendant's phone show the
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Speaker 1: messages were sent and received during that time. These messages
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Speaker 1: were deleted, court documents say. For months, Corey Richens worked
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Speaker 1: on her book, Last month, she appeared on Good Things Utah,
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Speaker 1: a show on local television station ABC4, to talk about
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Speaker 1: the importance of her children's book on mourning. Talk about
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Speaker 1: a disgusting, gross-ass individual. Not only do you kill your husband, allegedly,
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Speaker 1: but now you're profiting on his homicide, on his murder,
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Speaker 1: by creating a book and going on TV and acting
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Speaker 1: like you're some kind of, you know, representative for those
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Speaker 1: who are suffering through grief. Give me a break already.
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Speaker 1: She said it's based on three concepts, connection, continuity, and care. Connection,
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Speaker 1: keep the person's spirit alive who has passed. Continuity, try
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Speaker 1: and keep routines and schedules as normal as possible. Care,
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Speaker 1: affirming their feelings, understanding when they are sad, mad, lonely,
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Speaker 1: and talking about those feelings and letting them know it's okay.
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Speaker 1: Corey Richen said in the interview, her three young sons
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Speaker 1: helped write the book, to help them articulate their feelings,
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Speaker 1: she said. Weeks later, Corey Richens was arrested in her
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Speaker 1: husband's death. Imagine these poor kids, how they're going to
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Speaker 1: grow up, what they're going to think about their mom,
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Speaker 1: their dad, the whole situation. And this lady's out here
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Speaker 1: writing a book about grief. Well, you should write a
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Speaker 1: new book about grief, a book about how your kids
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Speaker 1: aren't going to have any parents now because you're a
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Speaker 1: disgusting animal. She tried to change a life insurance policy
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Speaker 1: to make herself the sole beneficiary.
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Speaker 2: Affidavit shows. And we all know how that works.
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Speaker 1: Every time you do that, and then somebody ends up dying, well,
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Speaker 1: guess who becomes the suspect? Two months before her husband's death,
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Speaker 1: Corey Richens tried to change a life insurance policy he
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Speaker 1: had taken out with his business partner to make herself
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Speaker 1: the sole beneficiary, according to a search warrant affidavit from
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Speaker 1: the Summit County Sheriff's Office. The document, obtained by CNN
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Speaker 1: affiliate KSL, says that in January 2022, Richens logged into
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Speaker 1: Eric's life insurance policy agreement with his business partner and
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Speaker 1: changed them from each other's beneficiary to her as the
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Speaker 1: only beneficiary. Yeah, why would she do that, huh? Just
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Speaker 1: out of the blue, she decided she woke up one
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Speaker 1: day and, hey, you know what? I think I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go in here and change the beneficiary. Or did
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Speaker 1: she have a plan on the table and she knew
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Speaker 1: what was coming down the pipe? The insurance company notified
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Speaker 1: the two men of the change, according to the document,
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Speaker 1: and they were able to change it back. The detective
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Speaker 1: wrote that, in an interview conducted after Eric Richen's death,
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Speaker 1: law enforcement learned he had told his family if something
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Speaker 1: were to happen to him, his wife is to blame.
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Speaker 1: Eric Rich and sister told the detective the couple had
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Speaker 1: vacationed in Greece a few years earlier and after his
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Speaker 1: wife gave him a drink, he became violently ill and
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Speaker 1: called her saying he believed his wife had tried to
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Speaker 1: kill him. I don't know how many times I have
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Speaker 1: to say this, but if there's ever an instance where
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Speaker 1: you think your husband or your wife has tried to
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Speaker 1: kill you or they poisoned you, get a divorce. Because
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Speaker 1: at that point, it's only a matter of time before
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Speaker 1: they kill you. In the 2022 Valentine's Day incident, Eric
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Speaker 1: Richens became ill after eating a sandwich his wife had
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Speaker 1: made him. After one bite, Eric broke into hives and
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Speaker 1: couldn't breathe, the affidavit says. He used his son's EpiPen
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Speaker 1: as well as Benadryl before passing out for several hours.
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Speaker 1: Eric Richens reportedly called his business partner about the incident
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Speaker 1: when he woke up. Prior to his death, Eric Richens
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Speaker 1: had changed his personal life insurance policy to make his
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Speaker 1: sister the beneficiary without his wife's knowledge. He was looking
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Speaker 1: into a divorce and wanted his kids taken care of,
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Speaker 1: the affidavit says. His family told the detective the couple
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Speaker 1: had argued over a $ 2 million real estate investment. According
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Speaker 1: to the affidavit, Eric Richens was planning to tell his
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Speaker 1: wife he wouldn't sign the papers to make the purchase
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Speaker 1: and the day after his death, She signed the closing
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Speaker 1: papers on her own. According to a spokesperson for the
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Speaker 1: Summit County Jail, Corey Richens is being held without bail.
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Speaker 1: Her detention hearing is set for May 19th. Well, it
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Speaker 1: would seem that the authorities have quite an abundance of
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Speaker 1: evidence against Ms. Richens here, and it would seem that
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Speaker 1: she is in gigantic trouble. So we'll keep our eye
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Speaker 1: on this one, and we'll add some more updates to
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Speaker 1: the catalog as it continues to evolve. All right, folks,
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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
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Speaker 1: the information that goes with the episode can be found
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Speaker 1: in the description box. What's up everyone and welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the program. Recently we've been talking about a story
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Speaker 1: about a real estate agent from Utah who allegedly killed
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Speaker 1: her husband by slipping this dude a fentanyl-laced Moscow mule
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Speaker 1: drink after she said that they closed on a multi-million
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Speaker 1: dollar property. The only problem? is that Eric Richens wanted
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with this property. And in fact, it
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Speaker 1: was a huge point of contention between Eric Richens and
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Speaker 1: Corey Richens and a big problem for their marriage. Well,
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Speaker 1: we're learning more now about Corey Richens and some of
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Speaker 1: the Google searches that she performed before her husband's death.
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Speaker 1: So let's dive into this article and let's get caught
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Speaker 1: up real quick on what's going on with Corey Richens.
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Speaker 1: This article was published by CNN, and the headline, New
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Speaker 1: Details Emerge About the Alleged Search History of the Utah
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Speaker 1: Mom Charged with Her Husband's Murder. This article was authored
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Speaker 1: by Camilla Bernal and Cherie Mossberg. What is lethal dose
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Speaker 1: of fentanyl is one of many phone searches that investigators
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Speaker 1: say were made by Corey Richens, a Utah widow accused
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Speaker 1: of killing her husband, before she authored a children's book
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Speaker 1: about grief. Imagine being this audacious. You go ahead and
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Speaker 1: kill your husband, giving him a Moscow mule drink laced
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Speaker 1: with fentanyl, and then you have the audacity to have
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Speaker 1: these sorts of searches in your phone as if you're
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Speaker 1: not going to be the first person that the police
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Speaker 1: look at. All of these people out here that are
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Speaker 1: committing crimes, especially these days, they're pretty stupid, aren't they?
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Speaker 1: They all leave a digital footprint, and that digital footprint
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Speaker 1: always ends up being their undoing. And that's why you'll notice, like,
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Speaker 1: the big crime bosses around the world, they do not
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Speaker 1: use the phone at all. What do you think, a
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Speaker 1: guy like El Mayo sitting around on TikTok?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 1: This guy does not use a phone. Everything's done by
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Speaker 1: hand-to-hand talks. Everything's done by face-to-face meetings. And there's no
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Speaker 1: BSing around. Because real criminals, people who don't want to
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Speaker 1: get caught, they understand that anything you're doing digitally these
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Speaker 1: days is going to get caught up in a dragnet,
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Speaker 1: whether it's metadata... or GPS coordinates, either way, they're going
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Speaker 1: to nail you if you're somebody who's using their phone
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Speaker 1: to commit a crime. The new details on the widow's
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Speaker 1: alleged search history emerged as part of the prosecution's case
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Speaker 1: against Richens, 33, who will be in a Park City,
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Speaker 1: Utah court on Monday for a detention hearing. A judge
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Speaker 1: is expected to decide if she should be released or
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Speaker 1: remain in custody pending the outcome of her trial. She
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Speaker 1: should remain in custody. This lady, if she is guilty
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Speaker 1: of what she's accused of, and it certainly looks like
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Speaker 1: she is, committed a heinous crime. You're going to murder
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Speaker 1: your husband? And not only that, you're going to do
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Speaker 1: it while your kid's home? What the hell's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: So this lady deserves to be exactly where she's at,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, if she's guilty of these crimes. And
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Speaker 1: we won't know that until, obviously, there's a trial. But
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Speaker 1: there's certainly enough evidence here that would lead me to
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Speaker 1: think that no bail should be offered. Prosecutors allege she
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Speaker 1: killed Eric Richens, her former husband of nine years, with
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Speaker 1: a lethal dose of fentanyl. She faces charges of criminal homicide,
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Speaker 1: aggravated murder, and three counts of possession of a controlled
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Speaker 1: substance with the intent to distribute. She has not yet
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Speaker 1: entered a plea. The documents released Friday also give insight
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Speaker 1: into Richens' defense. Her attorneys argue there is no substantial
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Speaker 1: evidence to support the charges. and say she should be
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Speaker 1: released as she awaits trial. Yeah, you know, that Moscow
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Speaker 1: mule drink that he got that had the fentanyl in it?
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Speaker 1: The fentanyl grew legs and walked there on its own,
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Speaker 1: and put itself into that drink, obviously. Among the details
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Speaker 1: released in the documents are internet searches investigators say were
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Speaker 1: found on Richens' phone that were described by prosecutors as incriminating.
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Speaker 1: And again, if you're going to use your phone... before
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Speaker 1: or after a crime, your dumb ass deserves to get caught.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing using your phone? What do you think,
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Speaker 1: you're slick? That nobody's going to suspect that you're the
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Speaker 1: person who did this? You guys are home alone. Nobody
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Speaker 1: else is there. They're going to start going through all
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Speaker 1: of your details about your marriage, how your relationship was
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Speaker 1: with your husband. Then they're going to find all these
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Speaker 1: other clues. And then you're going to have the audacity
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Speaker 1: to sit there and have your lawyer say, oh, there's
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Speaker 1: no evidence. She should be out of jail. So what,
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Speaker 1: she can go and nurture her children? I think it's
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Speaker 1: safe to say that Corey Richens has caused enough damage.
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Speaker 2: Some of the.
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Speaker 1: Articles pulled up through her searches focused on fentanyl, life
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Speaker 1: insurance payments, and other relating to police investigations and how
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Speaker 1: data is collected from electronic devices. And you know when
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Speaker 1: they say if you have to ask the price of something,
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Speaker 1: it's too expensive? Well, that's the same here. If you
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Speaker 1: have to look up how to be a criminal, breaking news,
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Speaker 1: you're not one. And chances are, your dumb ass is
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Speaker 1: going to get caught. The searches found on Richin's iPhone
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Speaker 1: include the phrases, Can cops force you to do a
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Speaker 1: lie detector test? Luxury prisons for the rich in America.
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Speaker 1: Death certificate says pending. Will life insurance still pay? If
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Speaker 1: someone poisoned, what does it go down on the death
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Speaker 1: certificate as? And how to permanently delete information from an
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Speaker 1: iPhone remotely. Now, if you take any of those search
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Speaker 1: topics on their own and you don't have, you know,
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Speaker 1: the specter of a dead man hanging over you, nothing
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Speaker 1: too out of the ordinary, right?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm curious.
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Speaker 1: These are questions that I have that I want answered.
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Speaker 1: But when you have the death of your husband and
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Speaker 1: you're the suspect in that death of your husband and
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Speaker 1: then they start going through your search history and they
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Speaker 1: find all of these different weird searches that are related
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Speaker 1: to how your husband died, it doesn't take Inspector Gadget
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Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on here, okay? Eric Richens
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Speaker 1: was found dead at the foot of the couple's bed
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Speaker 1: in March of 2022. His wife told investigators at the
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Speaker 1: time that she brought her husband, a Moscow Mule cocktail,
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom of their Camas, Utah home, then left
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Speaker 1: to sleep with their son in his room and returned
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Speaker 1: around 3 a.m. to find her husband lying on the floor,
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Speaker 1: cold to the touch. And she got nailed here again
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Speaker 1: because of the phone. Remember, she said she wasn't on
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Speaker 1: her phone to the investigators. But come to find out,
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Speaker 1: she had unlocked it and locked it several different times
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Speaker 1: throughout this whole entire situation. So she was lying right
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Speaker 1: from the beginning. The investigators realized it and they were
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Speaker 1: off and running with their investigations. About a year to
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Speaker 1: the day after her husband died, Richens published a children's book,
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Speaker 1: Are You With Me?, about navigating grief after the loss
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Speaker 1: of a loved one.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Imagine being Eric Richens' family and this disgusting viper writes
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Speaker 1: a book about dealing with grief after she killed your
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Speaker 1: son or your brother or your grandson or whatever. Alleged
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Speaker 1: fentanyl purchases before husband's death. Prosecutors say Richens withdrew money
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Speaker 1: from bank accounts without her husband's knowledge and tried to
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Speaker 1: change a life insurance policy to make her the sole beneficiary.
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Speaker 2: Breaking news, folks.
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Speaker 1: If that ever happens, chances are, whoever your significant other is,
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Speaker 1: they're lining you up for something real bad. And you're
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Speaker 1: probably going to have an accident that includes drinking some
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Speaker 1: Drano or some shit. So if somebody's changing the beneficiary
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Speaker 1: of your insurance without your knowledge... That is one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest tells that you could possibly have that something
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Speaker 1: real bad is on its way. How many times have
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Speaker 1: we talked about that now? People doing the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Every single time one of these people premeditates a murder,
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Speaker 1: this is what they do. They also point to various
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Speaker 1: incidents where she allegedly may have attempted to poison him. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: her lawyers argue in filings made Friday that Richens had
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Speaker 1: the right to withdraw money from their joint accounts, claim,
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Speaker 1: There is no evidence identifying the computer from which the
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Speaker 1: login was initiated when the life insurance policy change was
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Speaker 1: attempted and say she did not attempt to poison him. No, again,
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Speaker 1: it just happened organically. That fentanyl fell from the sky
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom, and it landed in his drink, and
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Speaker 1: then he went and drank that Moscow Mule and ended
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Speaker 1: up dying. What sort of excuse does she think she's
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Speaker 1: going to come up with here? She bought the fentanyl.
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Speaker 1: Somebody's already come forward and said that. She has all
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Speaker 1: of these searches that she did on the phone and
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Speaker 1: on the computer. And they have all of these marital
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Speaker 1: problems leading up to this. So that defense might look
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Speaker 1: great when they're filing it in court, but do you
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Speaker 1: really think a jury is ever going to put any
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Speaker 1: credence in something like that? And remember, that's what this
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Speaker 1: is all about, getting a conviction to stick in front
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Speaker 1: of a jury. Investigators also detailed a series of illicit
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Speaker 1: fentanyl purchases in the months leading up to her husband's death,
20:33
Speaker 1: according to the documents. His death was six days after
20:36
Speaker 1: the latest alleged pill delivery, investigators say. An autopsy and
20:41
Speaker 1: toxicology report revealed that Eric Richens, 39, had about five
20:46
Speaker 1: times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his system, according
20:49
Speaker 1: to a medical examiner. The defense insists there is no
20:53
Speaker 1: proof their client gave her husband the lethal dose. This
20:57
Speaker 1: is one of the most common excuses that you'll see
20:59
Speaker 1: in a situation like this. Oh, they took the drugs
21:01
Speaker 1: on their own. My client had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile,
21:05
Speaker 1: Eric Richens is not a drug addict. has no signs
21:08
Speaker 1: of being someone who's addicted to opioids, so all of
21:11
Speaker 1: a sudden he went out and found a way to
21:14
Speaker 1: get his hands on the fentanyl that your client had
21:16
Speaker 1: purchased and he did it on his own? Who's buying
21:20
Speaker 1: that story? Nobody's buying that story. Nobody at all. The
21:25
Speaker 1: defense insists there is no proof their client gave her
21:28
Speaker 1: husband the lethal dose. Law enforcement never identified or seized
21:33
Speaker 1: any fentanyl or other illicit drugs from the family home.
21:36
Speaker 1: Her defense lawyers wrote an emotion. Well, that kind of
21:39
Speaker 1: goes against their excuse here that Eric Richens took these
21:44
Speaker 1: drugs on his own. Opioid users, breaking news folks, don't
21:48
Speaker 1: just have enough for one dose, okay? They have a
21:51
Speaker 1: stash of dope where they can get high and they
21:54
Speaker 1: can get right because if not, they're going to be sick.
21:57
Speaker 1: So it doesn't make sense for a drug addict, if
21:59
Speaker 1: that's what they're inferring here, that Eric Richens is or
22:02
Speaker 1: was to not have a stash of dope at the house. Also,
22:08
Speaker 1: the state has provided no evidence that there was fentanyl
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Speaker 1: found in the home, nor have they provided any evidence
22:14
Speaker 1: that Corey gave Eric the fentanyl at issue. Eric Richens
22:18
Speaker 1: is described as a partier and someone who loved a
22:21
Speaker 1: good time in the defense motion. He would consume alcohol
22:24
Speaker 1: and THC in any form, the document said.
22:28
Speaker 2: So what?
22:29
Speaker 1: Because someone smokes pot and they drink? They're a heroin addict?
22:32
Speaker 1: Give me a break already, okay?
22:34
Speaker 2: So stupid.
22:35
Speaker 1: Talk about apples and oranges. The defense motion also points
22:39
Speaker 1: to discrepancies in witness testimony, adding that law enforcement told
22:43
Speaker 1: one witness that if she gave them what they wanted,
22:46
Speaker 1: it would constitute her get out of jail free card.
22:49
Speaker 1: The document says technicalities and loopholes. They don't have any
22:54
Speaker 1: evidence here. They know what their client did. So let's
22:57
Speaker 1: go on the offensive and let's talk about the process.
23:01
Speaker 1: Allegations of forged documents. Potentially previewing what may be presented
23:06
Speaker 1: at trial, another filing in the case includes allegations that
23:09
Speaker 1: some of Eric Richens' financial documents may have been forged.
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Speaker 1: The professional opinion of Matt Throckmorton, a forensic document examiner
23:19
Speaker 1: who looked at three specific documents relating to durable power
23:23
Speaker 1: of attorney and life insurance, is included in the filings.
23:27
Speaker 1: After comparing these documents with dozens of other documents Eric
23:32
Speaker 1: Richens authored, Throck and Morton indicated that signatures on the
23:35
Speaker 1: three items in question appear to have been forged. The forgeries,
23:40
Speaker 1: in this case, are simulated forgeries. That is, when someone
23:44
Speaker 1: tries to copy, draw, or duplicate another person's characteristics and
23:49
Speaker 1: habits and tries to create a fraudulent signature or set
23:52
Speaker 1: of initials with enough similarities they might get passed off
23:56
Speaker 1: as genuine, Throck Morton explained. Eric made and requested several
24:01
Speaker 1: unusual to highly unusual choices and provisions to his estate plan,
24:06
Speaker 1: said attorney Crystal Bowman Carter, who counseled Eric on estate planning,
24:10
Speaker 1: according to the documents. Those unusual requests included that his
24:14
Speaker 1: wife not be designated as his health care agent should
24:18
Speaker 1: one be needed and that his wife and children be
24:21
Speaker 1: provided for. But with the caveat that she should be
24:25
Speaker 1: unable to control the financials. Eric chose his father and
24:29
Speaker 1: sister to be trustees on his family's behalf, according to
24:33
Speaker 1: the documents. Now, does that sound like someone who trusts
24:36
Speaker 1: his wife? Absolutely not. Sounds like someone that knows something
24:40
Speaker 1: bad is on its way. Eric sought to protect the
24:43
Speaker 1: three young sons he and Corey had together in the
24:46
Speaker 1: long term by ensuring that Corey would never be in
24:49
Speaker 1: a position to manage his property after his death, Bowman
24:52
Speaker 1: Carter said. In a phone conversation the day after Eric's death,
24:56
Speaker 1: Bowman Carter explained the trust to Corey. She said Corey
25:00
Speaker 1: became extremely upset. Her behavior led me to believe she
25:04
Speaker 1: was learning this for the first time. In an email
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Speaker 1: included in the filings, Richens wrote to police clarifying information
25:12
Speaker 1: about her previous testimony, including a reference to an affair
25:15
Speaker 1: her husband previously had. Eric's affair was that same year
25:19
Speaker 1: I moved out, the trust was created, as well as
25:23
Speaker 1: him looking into a divorce, she wrote. Eric and I
25:26
Speaker 1: figured out most things like couples do, she added. And
25:30
Speaker 1: that's a completely different story than we've heard from his
25:32
Speaker 1: family and from the people that were close to him.
25:36
Speaker 1: According to them, he wasn't cheating on her the other
25:40
Speaker 1: way around. And obviously, she was the one that had
25:43
Speaker 1: all kinds of bad intentions for Eric Richens. Look, you
25:47
Speaker 1: don't go in and forge people's life insurance and all
25:50
Speaker 1: this other stuff if you don't have some kind of
25:52
Speaker 1: grand plan that you're trying to unfurl. And unfortunately for
25:57
Speaker 1: Corey Richens, that grand plan seems to have fallen flat.
26:02
Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
26:04
Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with the episode can
26:06
Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and
26:10
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. This Corey Richens story continues
26:16
Speaker 1: to get more bizarre by the day. Now we're learning
26:19
Speaker 1: that she took out a life insurance policy on her
26:22
Speaker 1: husband before serving him up that Garbage ass sandwich that
26:26
Speaker 1: made him sick? Well, now we're learning that author Griefy
26:30
Speaker 1: McGriefington over here also left him a love note with
26:35
Speaker 1: that sandwich. So let's dive into this article from the
26:38
Speaker 1: Daily Mail and let's get caught up on the newest
26:41
Speaker 1: court filings in the Corey Richens, a.k.a. the Moscow Mule
26:46
Speaker 1: Killer case.
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Speaker 2: Headline.
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Speaker 1: Grief author Corey Richens took out a new life insurance
26:52
Speaker 1: policy on her husband before serving him a tainted sandwich
26:56
Speaker 1: with a love note and then tried drilling into his
26:59
Speaker 1: safe containing $ 165, 000 two days after he was poisoned with
27:05
Speaker 1: the cocktail.
27:06
Speaker 2: Really looking good for Corey Richens.
27:08
Speaker 1: Not only did I poison my husband, allegedly, but now
27:12
Speaker 1: I'm out here with a drill acting like the junkie
27:15
Speaker 1: chick in Breaking Bad trying to get into the ATM.
27:18
Speaker 1: The jury is going to have a field day with
27:20
Speaker 1: this lady. The author of this article is Laura Collins.
27:25
Speaker 1: Moscow mule killer Corey Richens slipped a love note alongside
27:29
Speaker 1: an allegedly poisoned sandwich, then, temptingly, placed it on the
27:33
Speaker 1: seat of her husband's truck on Valentine's Day of 2022.
27:38
Speaker 2: I mean, for real?
27:39
Speaker 1: So it's Valentine's Day. Instead of going out and getting
27:42
Speaker 1: you a box of candies, this lady's like, you know what?
27:45
Speaker 1: I'm going to poison this dude's sandwich, and then, I'm
27:48
Speaker 1: going to leave a love note here to entice him
27:51
Speaker 1: to take a bite of it.
27:52
Speaker 2: This lady is absolutely disturbed.
27:55
Speaker 1: If all of these allegations are true and they all
27:58
Speaker 1: bear fruit, this is one very, very disturbed woman. The
28:03
Speaker 1: chilling new details is just one of several new claims
28:06
Speaker 1: to emerge Friday in amended charging documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
28:13
Speaker 1: It has been two weeks since Corey Richens, 34, has
28:17
Speaker 1: been charged with murder in the death of her husband,
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Speaker 1: Eric Richens, 39, whom she allegedly poisoned with a fentanyl-laced
28:24
Speaker 1: vodka cocktail on March 3rd, 2022. Imagine you're hanging out
28:29
Speaker 1: in bed, watching SportsCenter, whatever it is. Your chick rolls in.
28:34
Speaker 1: She's in a good mood, happy. Oh, we just closed
28:36
Speaker 1: on the house, babe. Let's celebrate. Next thing you know,
28:39
Speaker 1: you take a sip of your Moscow Mule and you're
28:42
Speaker 1: on a fentanyl-induced trip. And before you know it, your
28:45
Speaker 1: heart stops and you die. Hell of a gal, that
28:48
Speaker 1: Corey Richens. The mother of three claims she found him
28:52
Speaker 1: cold to the touch shortly after 3 a.m. on March 4th, 2022.
28:58
Speaker 1: Now the newly filed documents have revealed a string of
29:01
Speaker 1: callous moves made by Corey in the years before and
29:05
Speaker 1: days after her husband's death. And it always comes out
29:09
Speaker 1: in the end, all of these people out here who
29:11
Speaker 1: think that they're going to be able to get away
29:13
Speaker 1: with this stuff and nobody's going to out them for
29:15
Speaker 1: their bullshit in the past, breaking news, you're going to
29:18
Speaker 1: be outed.
29:19
Speaker 2: In the age of social media, what do you think?
29:22
Speaker 1: Your story's going to hit the internet and people who
29:24
Speaker 1: know you aren't going to have something to say? And
29:27
Speaker 1: if you're one of these people who is somebody who
29:30
Speaker 1: tries to control the narrative, like Corey Richens obviously was,
29:34
Speaker 1: She's not going to be very happy with all of
29:35
Speaker 1: this information coming out and people exposing her for what
29:39
Speaker 1: she was.
29:40
Speaker 2: Allegedly.
29:41
Speaker 1: They included taking out multiple life insurance policies on him
29:45
Speaker 1: worth close to $ 2 million and attempting to drill into
29:49
Speaker 1: his safe just 48 hours after his death. As for
29:53
Speaker 1: the earlier alleged poisoning in February 2022, Richens broke out
29:57
Speaker 1: in hives after consuming the sandwich and was unable to breathe,
30:01
Speaker 1: and required his son's EpiPen to recover. He later told
30:04
Speaker 1: a friend he thought his wife was trying to poison him.
30:08
Speaker 1: It's so crazy to me. This lady has kids with
30:11
Speaker 1: this man, and she thinks it's a good idea to
30:14
Speaker 1: murder him so his kids can grow up without a father?
30:16
Speaker 1: I always have a hard time understanding situations like this.
30:20
Speaker 1: At what point do you come to terms with, in
30:23
Speaker 1: your mind anyway, that you think things are going to
30:25
Speaker 1: be better off for everybody involved if you murder this man? Because,
30:30
Speaker 1: let me tell you, that's not a good idea. Chances are,
30:33
Speaker 1: you're going to get caught, first thing. Second, well, your children,
30:37
Speaker 1: now they don't have a father and a mother, and
30:39
Speaker 1: it's all your fault. So, the whole thought process behind
30:44
Speaker 1: something like this is just bizarre to me. When one
30:47
Speaker 1: of Richin's two sisters, Amy and Katie Richin Benson, told
30:50
Speaker 1: Corey that she did not have the authority to do so,
30:54
Speaker 1: Corey became enraged and punched Eric Richin's sister in the
30:57
Speaker 1: face and the neck. This was the first time that
31:01
Speaker 1: Corey learned that her husband had changed his will. Without
31:04
Speaker 1: telling her, Richens had created a living trust and placed
31:08
Speaker 1: the older of his two sisters, Richens Benson, 38, in charge.
31:13
Speaker 1: As previously revealed by DailyMail.com, until that point, Corey believed
31:18
Speaker 1: she would inherit an estate worth at least $ 3. 6 million
31:22
Speaker 1: on her husband's death, according to terms of a prenup
31:25
Speaker 1: they signed on their marriage in June of 2013. Prosecutors
31:30
Speaker 1: allege Corey secretly took out the first of several life
31:34
Speaker 1: insurance policies she had obtained on her husband within just
31:37
Speaker 1: two years of their marriage. Between 2015 and 2017, the
31:43
Speaker 1: documents state she took out at least four life insurance
31:46
Speaker 1: policies with an aggregate value of $ 1, 947, 000. The most recent
31:49
Speaker 1: policy was taken out barely two months before his death
31:51
Speaker 1: in late January of 2022. when Corey filed an application
32:02
Speaker 1: for a new life insurance policy of $ 100, 000 on Richen's life.
32:07
Speaker 1: The policy was issued on February 4th, 2022, exactly one
32:12
Speaker 1: month before his death. One week after that policy was issued,
32:16
Speaker 1: Corey allegedly obtained illicit fentanyl from an acquaintance, one of
32:21
Speaker 1: two such purchases made across two weeks in February and
32:25
Speaker 1: totaling $ 1, 800. In the months after her husband's unexpected death,
32:31
Speaker 1: and in a very public expression of grief, Corey wrote
32:34
Speaker 1: a children's book, Are You With Me? Well, we're not
32:37
Speaker 1: with you, Corey, but your cellmate is going to be
32:40
Speaker 1: with you very, very soon. I'm sure you're going to
32:42
Speaker 1: enjoy that. And the good thing, folks, is she knows
32:44
Speaker 1: how to deal with grief already. So when she's rotting
32:47
Speaker 1: away in prison, sitting in that cell, grieving, she'll be
32:50
Speaker 1: able to cope. She claimed that the work was inspired
32:53
Speaker 1: by Richon's death and her own experience of failing to
32:56
Speaker 1: find any reading materials aimed at helping her sons cope
33:00
Speaker 1: with their loss. But while she went on local television
33:03
Speaker 1: to promote the book and painted the image of a
33:06
Speaker 1: happy and wholesome family life ripped apart by unexpected tragedy,
33:11
Speaker 1: attorney and Richens family spokesman Greg Skordas told DailyMail.com that
33:17
Speaker 1: Richens and Corey had discussed divorce in the months leading.
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Speaker 2: Up to his death.
33:22
Speaker 1: He said they had argued over financial issues. And it
33:25
Speaker 1: seemed that both were more realistic about divorce as a
33:29
Speaker 1: way forward. That should have been the way they went.
33:32
Speaker 1: This lady murdering this dude, it's all about greed. It's
33:36
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Life insurance policies. How many
33:39
Speaker 1: times do we have to see it? One of the
33:42
Speaker 1: biggest drivers when we're talking about intimate murder is money.
33:48
Speaker 1: In fact, the new charging documents show that money had
33:51
Speaker 1: long been a source of conflict for the devoted father.
33:54
Speaker 2: And his wife.
33:56
Speaker 1: In September 2022, they reveal Richens discovered that Corey had
34:00
Speaker 1: obtained and spent $ 250, 000 home equity line of credit on
34:06
Speaker 1: their Camas home, withdrawn at least $ 100, 000 from his bank accounts,
34:10
Speaker 1: and spent in excess of $ 30, 000 on his credit cards.
34:14
Speaker 1: Around that same time, Richens, who was a partner in
34:17
Speaker 1: a successful masonry firm valued at at least $ 4 million
34:21
Speaker 1: at the time of his death, also discovered that Corey
34:25
Speaker 1: had been appropriating distributions made from his business for the
34:29
Speaker 1: purpose of making federal and state quarterly tax payments and
34:33
Speaker 1: not paying the taxes. What an absolute scoundrel. This lady
34:38
Speaker 1: was making all kinds of moves behind her husband's back,
34:41
Speaker 1: hanging out with a fentanyl dealer, spending all kinds of money.
34:45
Speaker 1: Has anybody run a toxicology on her? Is she on Fenta?
34:48
Speaker 1: Because you have to be on drugs to make these decisions.
34:52
Speaker 1: The stolen tax payments totaled at least $ 134, 346, money that
34:59
Speaker 1: Richens insisted Corey pay back. The following month in October 2020,
35:04
Speaker 1: Richens consulted both a divorce lawyer and an estate planning lawyer.
35:09
Speaker 1: Unknown to Corey, he then created the Living Trust, which
35:12
Speaker 1: carved her out of any control of his estate, stated
35:16
Speaker 1: that she should never become a trustee of it, and
35:18
Speaker 1: severely limited her access to any funds she might receive
35:22
Speaker 1: in the event of his death. He transferred the partnership
35:26
Speaker 1: interest in his business to the trust and designated the trust,
35:30
Speaker 1: rather than his wife, the beneficiary of his $ 500, 000 life
35:34
Speaker 1: insurance policy. At the time, Richens was unaware of the
35:39
Speaker 1: multiple life insurance policies she had taken out on him.
35:43
Speaker 1: In an extraordinary section of his will, Viewed by DailyMail.com,
35:47
Speaker 1: Richens also included written instructions of what to do in
35:50
Speaker 1: case of his disappearance or abduction. He told family members
35:55
Speaker 1: that if anything happened to me, they should check out
35:57
Speaker 1: his wife, and that he didn't want her to get
36:00
Speaker 1: away with something, and that he believed she would try
36:03
Speaker 1: to kill him for his money. Under the circumstances, with
36:07
Speaker 1: such deep-seated misgivings and mortal fear, many have questioned why
36:11
Speaker 1: Richens stayed in the marriage. I said the same thing,
36:14
Speaker 1: but again, we're not living in his shoes. This is
36:17
Speaker 1: a man who, from all accounts, was a family man.
36:20
Speaker 1: Didn't want to break his family up. Didn't want to
36:22
Speaker 1: have a broken home.
36:23
Speaker 2: I understand.
36:25
Speaker 1: But at some point, you have to know that you're
36:28
Speaker 1: in jeopardy. And now you're not only talking about a
36:31
Speaker 1: broken home where you see your kids four times a week.
36:34
Speaker 1: You're talking about the chance of being killed and you
36:37
Speaker 1: never seeing your kids again and your kids not growing
36:41
Speaker 1: up with their father. So I understand why somebody would
36:44
Speaker 1: want to stay in the relationship and try and make
36:47
Speaker 1: it work, but at some point, the rubber has to
36:49
Speaker 1: meet the road. According to family spokesman Skortis, there were
36:54
Speaker 1: three reasons. Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com last week, Skortis said,
36:59
Speaker 1: There are three reasons Eric stayed. One is 10 years old,
37:03
Speaker 1: one is 9, and the third is 6. He lived
37:07
Speaker 1: for his three boys, and unfortunately, he died for them too.
37:11
Speaker 1: It is a tragic statement, but according to Skourtis, Richens
37:15
Speaker 1: would have done and sacrificed anything for his three boys.
37:19
Speaker 1: Skourtis said he was a soccer coach, a baseball coach,
37:23
Speaker 1: a basketball coach, and avid outdoorsman with the boys. He
37:27
Speaker 1: donated all the pay from coaching to kids who could
37:30
Speaker 1: not afford some of the things his own boys had.
37:33
Speaker 1: He was really set on raising his boys the right way,
37:36
Speaker 1: and he was determined to do so despite the increasingly
37:39
Speaker 1: apparent troubles in his marriage. Scordis said there were rumors
37:43
Speaker 1: that Corey maintained a relationship with somebody else for pretty
37:46
Speaker 1: much the duration of the marriage. And obviously, while I
37:50
Speaker 1: don't know Corey Richens personally, it certainly seems to me
37:53
Speaker 1: that this was always a marriage of convenience for her.
37:57
Speaker 1: Somebody with some money and somebody that could propagate the
38:00
Speaker 1: lifestyle that she wanted to live. It wasn't something the
38:05
Speaker 1: family discussed with Eric or anything that rose above the
38:08
Speaker 1: level of hearsay. On the day before his death, Corey
38:11
Speaker 1: told authorities she and Richens were celebrating because she had
38:15
Speaker 1: closed on a home for her business, K. Richens Reality LLC.
38:20
Speaker 1: In fact, according to family members, Richens and Corey had
38:24
Speaker 1: disagreed over the purchase of the $ 2 million property, which
38:28
Speaker 1: she wanted to buy and flip. Families say Richens planned
38:32
Speaker 1: to tell his wife he did not intend to move
38:34
Speaker 1: forward with the purchase. She closed the deal the day
38:37
Speaker 1: after he died and put the property on the market
38:40
Speaker 1: for $ 5 million. Two weeks later, the vast property, which
38:44
Speaker 1: sprawls over 20,000 square feet with a separate guest house
38:48
Speaker 1: spanning more than 8,000 square feet, is set on 8.75
38:52
Speaker 1: acres of land in Midway, Utah, and is currently under
38:56
Speaker 1: contract for $ 3. 75 million. Corey is currently being held in
39:01
Speaker 1: custody with her next court appearance scheduled for June 12th. Obviously,
39:06
Speaker 1: we're going to keep following along with this one to
39:08
Speaker 1: see where it all ends up, but from what we
39:10
Speaker 1: have seen so far... Certainly not looking good for Corey Richens.
39:14
Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
39:16
Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with the episode can
39:19
Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and
39:23
Speaker 1: welcome back to the program. Corey Richens, the lady who
39:28
Speaker 1: was accused of killing her husband by spiking his Moscow
39:32
Speaker 1: mule drink, had everybody fooled, she thought. However, there were
39:37
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the community that were questioning
39:41
Speaker 1: her behavior and her involvement, allegedly, in the death of
39:45
Speaker 1: her husband. And that was personified after she went on
39:49
Speaker 1: to a local TV show to talk about the grief
39:52
Speaker 1: that she was feeling in the wake of her husband's
39:55
Speaker 1: death and how her and her children were dealing with
39:58
Speaker 1: that grief. Well, Corey Richens thought it would be a
40:01
Speaker 1: good idea to write a book. And as part of
40:03
Speaker 1: the promotion for this book, she went on to this
40:05
Speaker 1: show and listeners started sending in emails to the hosts
40:09
Speaker 1: telling them who they were dealing with. So today we
40:13
Speaker 1: have an update on the story. And to do that,
40:15
Speaker 1: we have an article from the Daily Mail. Headline, Two
40:19
Speaker 1: Utah news anchors feel duped and sickened after interviewing grief author,
40:24
Speaker 1: now charged with murdering her husband, with fentanyl-tainted Moscow mule,
40:28
Speaker 1: and say she told them his death was COVID-related. Instead
40:32
Speaker 1: of writing a book about grief, maybe Corey Richen should
40:34
Speaker 1: write a book about how not to commit a crime.
40:38
Speaker 1: She might as well have just given herself up to
40:40
Speaker 1: the authorities with all of the evidence that she's left,
40:43
Speaker 1: and then... To get on that TV show and to
40:46
Speaker 1: act like you're really grieving over your husband, that was
40:49
Speaker 1: a bridge too far for the police. And then after
40:51
Speaker 1: this show, obviously, she was arrested. But the audience of
40:55
Speaker 1: this show, they were sending in all kinds of emails
40:58
Speaker 1: letting these hosts know that Corey Richens is not who
41:01
Speaker 1: she says she is. This article was authored by Laura Parnaby.
41:07
Speaker 1: Two Utah news anchors have said they feel duped and
41:10
Speaker 1: sickened after interviewing grief author Corey Richens, who is now
41:14
Speaker 1: accused of murdering her husband with fentanyl-tainted Moscow mule. Dina
41:19
Speaker 1: Manzanares and Saray Chin, the hosts of KTVX's Good Things Utah,
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Speaker 1: also revealed the 33-year-old Utah mother of three had blamed
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Speaker 1: COVID for his death during her cold and stumbling on-air
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Speaker 1: conversation with the channel in March. Here's a little pro
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Speaker 1: tip If you murder somebody and you think you're getting
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Speaker 1: away with it, going on TV and talking about how
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Speaker 1: you're suffering through grief, this, that, the other thing, is
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Speaker 1: probably not the right move. Mormon former real estate agent
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Speaker 1: Richens has been held in Summit County Jail since she
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Speaker 1: was arrested on May 8th and charged with criminal homicide,
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Speaker 1: aggravated murder, and three counts of possession of a controlled substance.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors claim she killed her husband of nine years, Eric Richens,
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Speaker 1: with a cocktail laced with a poison on March 3rd, 2022,
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Speaker 1: before publishing an illustrated children's book about an angelic father
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Speaker 1: watching over his sons. Well, if you didn't kill their father,
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Speaker 1: Corey Richens, then he'd be here on Earth watching over
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Speaker 1: his sons. But your gross ass, allegedly, had to put
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Speaker 1: some fentanyl into a Moscow mule and kill him. The
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Speaker 1: 39-year-old was found dead at the foot of the bed
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Speaker 1: at their home in the town of Caymus, near Park City,
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Speaker 1: on March 4th of last year. Manzanares and Chin told
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Speaker 1: Fox News they felt disturbed by their interview with the
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Speaker 1: grief author on April 4th last year in light of
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Speaker 1: what has unfolded since. I definitely feel like we were
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Speaker 1: duped in a sense, Chin said. I'm sickened now that
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Speaker 1: she sat on our couch and talked about grieving. We
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Speaker 1: showed so much compassion and empathy for what seemingly looked
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Speaker 1: like a mourning widow. And these are the kind of
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Speaker 1: stories that these morning shows love, right? A woman whose
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Speaker 1: husband died, then she picked herself up by her bootstraps,
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Speaker 1: wrote a book, and now things are moving in a
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Speaker 1: direction of healing. And usually that's a great story that
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Speaker 1: people want to hear. But in this case, Corey Richens
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Speaker 1: was pitching a whole lot of BS, according to the authorities.
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Speaker 1: Richens first approached Good Things Utah requesting to be a
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Speaker 1: guest on the show in an email which Manzanera said
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Speaker 1: was all about the promotion of her children's book, adding
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Speaker 1: she seemed excited to get that 15 minutes of fame. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I bet she's not excited now. Manzanera's described Richens' demeanor
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Speaker 1: on set as cold and stumbling, but hosts put this
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Speaker 1: down to her struggling with grief. She was a little
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Speaker 1: bit cold. She wasn't super emotional. But we're trained to
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Speaker 1: show our guests in the best light. We were trying
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Speaker 1: to be on their side. And I'm thinking, she's probably numb.
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Speaker 1: This has only happened a year ago, she said. And
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Speaker 1: the purpose of these morning shows aren't to grill their guests, right?
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Speaker 1: These morning shows are more to highlight stories, good stuff
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Speaker 1: for the most part. And that's what they were trying
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Speaker 1: to do with this book. But everything went sideways because
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Speaker 1: the author is a vile, disgusting murderer, according to the government.
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Speaker 2: She was nervous.
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Speaker 1: She was stumbling over her words. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: nervous to be on live TV, but now I think
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Speaker 1: she was nervous because she was lying. Manzanera's added that
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Speaker 1: when the camera stopped rolling, she asked Richens what she
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Speaker 1: thought happened to her husband, whose cause of death was ambiguous,
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Speaker 1: and she replied, Oh, we think it was COVID related.
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Speaker 1: He had a lung issue. Yeah, he had a lung
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Speaker 1: issue after he stopped breathing due to the fact that
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Speaker 1: you allegedly poisoned him with fentanyl. That's why he had
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Speaker 1: a lung problem. And I don't know about you folks,
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Speaker 1: but I'm pretty tired of everything being blamed on COVID. Oh,
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Speaker 1: COVID this, COVID that. Vafangul COVID, okay? Shortly after the
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Speaker 1: interview aired, the show received messages warning them that Richens
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Speaker 1: was not everything she appears to be. With an anonymous
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Speaker 1: email telling them, you know.
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Speaker 2: She killed her husband.
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Speaker 1: The host said they thought the warning was bizarre and
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Speaker 1: they didn't think anything of it because they are accustomed
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Speaker 1: to receiving the occasional crazy email. And as a content
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Speaker 1: creator or a host of a show, you're going to
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Speaker 1: get emails from wacky ass loony people.
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Speaker 2: That's just part of the deal.
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Speaker 1: And when you're hosting one of these TV shows, you
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Speaker 1: know the same thing's happening to these hosts and these stations.
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Speaker 1: People have a gripe or they don't like a guest
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Speaker 1: or whatever. They're going to send in some emails. So
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Speaker 1: from the host perspective, They're saying to themselves, ah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: same old stuff. People just don't like her for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: They didn't think in their wildest dreams that Corey Richens
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Speaker 1: actually killed her husband. It wasn't like the police were
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Speaker 1: saying that at that point. Now, behind the scenes they were,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't like, you know, community knowledge that Corey
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Speaker 1: Richens was behind the death of her husband. I never
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Speaker 1: in a million years would have thought this was all
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Speaker 1: coming over the next months, Manzanera said.
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Speaker 2: It's truly shocking.
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Speaker 1: Richens, who has three sons, Carter, Ashton, and Weston, allegedly
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Speaker 1: killed her husband of nine years on March 3rd last
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Speaker 1: year and was promoting her $ 14. 99 grief book, Are You
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Speaker 1: With Me?, the month before her arrest on May 8th
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Speaker 1: of this year.
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Speaker 2: Police believe she gave Eric a lethal.
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Speaker 1: Dose of fentanyl disguised as a Moscow mule, a cocktail
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Speaker 1: compromising vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice. According to the
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Speaker 1: search warrant, Corey procured the drugs by texting a friend
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Speaker 1: asking for the Michael Jackson stuff in an apparent reference
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Speaker 1: to fentanyl, claiming they were for real estate investors who
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Speaker 1: had a back injury. Jackson was killed in 2009 by
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Speaker 1: a cocktail prescription of drugs like Oxycontin and Demerol. Prosecutors
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Speaker 1: have said in the months before, Richens tried to make
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Speaker 1: herself the sole beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy.
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Speaker 1: And doing that with all of the other things added
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Speaker 1: on to it, you know that the investigators, the detectives,
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Speaker 1: are going to be all over you like stink on shit.
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Speaker 1: So Corey Richens thinking that she was going to get
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Speaker 1: away with this is almost laughable if it wasn't such
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Speaker 1: a terrible situation. But Eric had changed his will and
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Speaker 1: power of attorney to give his sister Katie Richens Benson, 38,
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Speaker 1: full control. Because according to a police warrant, he had
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Speaker 1: been worried his wife might kill him for the money.
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Speaker 1: In May, the DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Corey launched a
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Speaker 1: legal dispute against his family within weeks of his death
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Speaker 1: to secure an estate valued in excess of $ 3. 6 million.
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Speaker 1: She claimed that Eric had tried to defraud her by
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Speaker 1: secretly transferring the family home, all personal property, and interest
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Speaker 1: in the masonry business he ran with a friend and partner,
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Speaker 1: Cody Wright, into a trust owned by his sister in
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Speaker 1: November of 2020. Richens also took out multiple life insurance
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Speaker 1: policies on him worth close to $ 2 million and attempted
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Speaker 1: to drill into his safe just 48 hours after he died,
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Speaker 1: his family has said. You know, the behavior of an
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Speaker 1: innocent woman. Imagine your husband dies and this is your behavior.
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Speaker 1: You're not grieving. You're not, you know, looking to your
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Speaker 1: family for comfort. And instead, you're over here with a
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Speaker 1: drill trying to get into the safe like the crackhead
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Speaker 1: from Breaking Bad. She also allegedly attempted to poison him
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Speaker 1: on several other occasions, including in February 2022 when Eric
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Speaker 1: broke out in hives after consuming a sandwich which Richens
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Speaker 1: had placed on the seat of his truck alongside a
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Speaker 1: love note on Valentine's Day. In the days before Eric died,
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Speaker 1: the couple had also been arguing about Richens' plans to
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Speaker 1: purchase and flip a $ 2 million home in the days before,
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Speaker 1: according to court documents. On March 4th, the day before
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Speaker 1: the alleged murder, Corey signed the closing papers on the
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Speaker 1: 10-acre property and invited her friends over for a party
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Speaker 1: at her house, where she was drinking and celebrating affidavits
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Speaker 1: for Search Warren's show. Imagine celebrating after your husband died?
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Speaker 1: Third District Judge Richard Mrazik ruled that she posed a
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Speaker 1: substantial danger after prosecutors called a series of witnesses arguing
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Speaker 1: that she had committed a disturbingly calculated murder. And that's
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Speaker 1: why the judge denied her bail. Not only did is
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Speaker 1: she alleged to have killed her husband here, but all
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Speaker 1: of the premeditation and covering up afterwards, that plays a
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Speaker 1: gigantic part with the judge, and obviously, this judge wasn't
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Speaker 1: messing around. So we'll keep our eye on this one,
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Speaker 1: because I have a funny feeling there's some more twists
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Speaker 1: and turns to come. Alright folks, that's gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with the episode can
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