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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a father of three, three
- 0:17Speaker 1: beautiful little boys, loving husband Drum's dead found in his
- 0:23Speaker 1: own bed in his own home. When his wife comes
- 0:27Speaker 1: back into the room, he's cold to the touch. What happened?
- 0:32Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
- 0:35Speaker 1: being with us here at Foxination and series XEM one eleven.
- 0:39Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to our friends at
- 0:41Speaker 1: ku TV.
- 0:42Speaker 2: This is the home where police found Eric Richards dead
- 0:45Speaker 2: on his bedroom floor in March. Richins and his wife,
- 0:48Speaker 2: Corey were celebrating a business accomplishment.
- 0:50Speaker 1: The night he died.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Corey made Eric a moscow mule, which he drank in
- 0:54Speaker 2: the bedroom.
- 0:55Speaker 1: They say. Corey told authorities that she.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Left to help one of their children, and rich into
- 1:00Speaker 2: the bed several hours later. It was then, they say,
- 1:03Speaker 2: she noticed Eric was cool to the touch and called.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Nine one one. What a horrible event to leave your
- 1:10Speaker 1: husband go fall asleep in the bedroom with one of
- 1:14Speaker 1: your sons. She wanders back in there to sleep in
- 1:18Speaker 1: their bed around three am and her husband is cold
- 1:22Speaker 1: to the touch. With me in all star panel to
- 1:24Speaker 1: make sense of what we know right now. But first
- 1:26Speaker 1: I want to go to Chief medical examiner out of
- 1:29Speaker 1: Terran County. That's Fort Worth Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin
- 1:34Speaker 1: and Texas Christian University Medical School, Doctor Kendall Crowns, Doctor Crowns,
- 1:39Speaker 1: it's such an honor to have you and doctor Paul
- 1:42Speaker 1: Christo with us. Doctor Crown's, my first question to you
- 1:45Speaker 1: is how long has a body How long has the
- 1:49Speaker 1: person been dead before their body is cold to the touch?
- 1:54Speaker 3: Hugely wants your heart job reading and your body taking
- 1:59Speaker 3: on the mature of the surrounding environment so it can
- 2:03Speaker 3: happen in a probably about a half hour to an
- 2:05Speaker 3: hour where you can start noticing the body and change
- 2:09Speaker 3: of temper temperature gotten cold.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Okay, you know, doctor Kindle Crowns. I know you're the
- 2:14Speaker 1: MD and I'm the JD. But I believe I'm going
- 2:19Speaker 1: to seek a second opinion. I'm going to go to
- 2:21Speaker 1: doctor Paul Christo, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
- 2:27Speaker 1: author of Aches and Gains, A Comprehensive Guide to Overcoming
- 2:31Speaker 1: Your Pain, Doctor Paul Christo, I thought it would take
- 2:35Speaker 1: so much longer for a body to get completely cold
- 2:40Speaker 1: to the touch, and I do agree with doctor Kendall
- 2:43Speaker 1: Crowns regarding the ambient air in the room and what
- 2:47Speaker 1: difference that would make. But in this case, they were
- 2:50Speaker 1: at home with their three little boys, so I'm assuming
- 2:55Speaker 1: I think it's safe to assume the temperature would have
- 2:58Speaker 1: been between sixty nine and let's just say seventy one.
- 3:02Speaker 4: Right, I mean, I would probably say somewhere around similar,
- 3:05Speaker 4: doctor crown probably, you know, forty minutes to an hour's.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Dodgor Paul Christo. How often do people just die in
- 3:12Speaker 1: their sleep? I mean, this is a young man who
- 3:16Speaker 1: was thirty nine years old at the time of his death.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Not very often surprised to say, I mean, this is
- 3:22Speaker 4: this is a rare event. It doesn't happen unless you have,
- 3:25Speaker 4: you know, maybe some underlying cardiac problems, for example, maybe
- 3:29Speaker 4: pulmonary problems. It's very rare just to drop dead in
- 3:32Speaker 4: your sleep.
- 3:33Speaker 1: You know, Doctor Angela Arnold joining me psychiatrist, renowned psychiatrist
- 3:37Speaker 1: in the Atlanta jurisdiction at angela Arnold MD dot com.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Doctor Angie. Maybe it's just my line of business, but
- 3:45Speaker 1: when I've ever I hear died in your sleep, there's
- 3:49Speaker 1: always something bad attached to that. But I guess people
- 3:52Speaker 1: really do die in their sleep.
- 3:53Speaker 5: Well, they do, Nancy, And it's usually older people who
- 3:57Speaker 5: die in their sleep. They can suffer in a rhythmia
- 4:00Speaker 5: of their heart, and those are the people that can
- 4:04Speaker 5: die in their sleep. But like you said, Nancy, whenever
- 4:07Speaker 5: we hear of a younger person dying in their sleep,
- 4:10Speaker 5: there's there's some curiosity about that. I mean, young people
- 4:13Speaker 5: don't have heart issues typically, so young people don't typically
- 4:18Speaker 5: die in their sleep, and that's typically what you die
- 4:20Speaker 5: from in the at night.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I disagree with you too, all three of you, doctors.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I and my vast knowledge of medicine disagree with all
- 4:30Speaker 1: of you. Because my dad had his first coronary thrombosis
- 4:34Speaker 1: at age thirty nine. That's pretty young. And this guy
- 4:37Speaker 1: is thirty nine.
- 4:38Speaker 5: Well it is, Nancy, but that's still unusual. It's not
- 4:41Speaker 5: that's not the norm. That's all I would say.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me get back on track. This
- 4:46Speaker 1: guy is actually celebrating, you know. Let me let Jen
- 4:49Speaker 1: Smith tell you. Jen Smith is joining us chief investigative
- 4:52Speaker 1: reporter for dailymail dot com on this from the very beginning.
- 4:56Speaker 1: The unusual death of Eric Rich is just thirty nine
- 5:00Speaker 1: years old, father of three little boys. Jen, thank you
- 5:05Speaker 1: for being with us. Explain to me how this whole
- 5:08Speaker 1: thing went down, because they were having a celebration that evening.
- 5:13Speaker 1: From what I understand, the wife, Corey Richans, flips houses.
- 5:19Speaker 1: She'll buy and she's got a business partner. They buy houses,
- 5:22Speaker 1: they improve them, and then they flip them, like on
- 5:25Speaker 1: AHGTV the flip your house. That's what she does. And
- 5:30Speaker 1: that evening they were having some kind of a celebration
- 5:34Speaker 1: because she had closed on a home.
- 5:36Speaker 6: You tell me, Jen, Yeah, that's exactly right Nowci. But
- 5:39Speaker 6: they actually our understanding of it is that they worked
- 5:42Speaker 6: pretty closely together Kreer and her husband Eric, like you say,
- 5:46Speaker 6: exactly the type of business that you just described. They
- 5:49Speaker 6: flipped houses. So when Eric came home that evening and
- 5:54Speaker 6: his wife is at the house with the kids, they're
- 5:57Speaker 6: celebrating because he has to close a deal on a
- 6:01Speaker 6: sale of a home, so bringing more money into the family.
- 6:05Speaker 6: And listen, this is a picture perfect family. They lived
- 6:09Speaker 6: in a really nice area not too far outside of
- 6:12Speaker 6: Park City in Utah. The tow is called Kamas, really
- 6:17Speaker 6: beautiful rural in the mountains, and they had this great life.
- 6:21Speaker 6: They themselves lived in a one point one million dollar home.
- 6:25Speaker 6: And as you rightly pointed out, Eric had just closed
- 6:28Speaker 6: another deal. So it was a happy occasion for the
- 6:31Speaker 6: Richards family this evening.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Now, let me understand they're Mormons, correct, they are?
- 6:36Speaker 6: Yeah, so Eric Richards actually comes from a pretty prominent
- 6:39Speaker 6: Mormon family. The Richards family is a large family in
- 6:43Speaker 6: at least Stummit County. This is the area of Utah
- 6:45Speaker 6: that we're talking about, many many relatives and very well
- 6:50Speaker 6: known in the community. He and Tury had been married
- 6:53Speaker 6: for nine years and they had three beautiful boys together
- 6:56Speaker 6: when he died.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Here's my question. I have several friends that are about Mormons.
- 7:01Speaker 1: They don't even drink chocolate milk gin because chocolate is
- 7:05Speaker 1: a stimulant. So these two are having moscow mules.
- 7:10Speaker 6: Yeah, So what we know know is that after he
- 7:13Speaker 6: returns home from closing this deal, as a celebration, Curi,
- 7:18Speaker 6: his wife makes him a moscow mules, the vodka ba
- 7:21Speaker 6: his cocktail, and that is where they kind of leave
- 7:27Speaker 6: things for the night.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Like you say, she goes off to get with the
- 7:31Speaker 1: son who is having a nightmare, sleeps in the room
- 7:33Speaker 1: with the sun having a nightmare. Yeah, and she leaves
- 7:36Speaker 1: him sitting up in bed, having his drink, TV going,
- 7:39Speaker 1: Everything's fine. So this mom devastated finding her husband cold
- 7:47Speaker 1: in the bed and having all sorts of survivor guilt.
- 7:50Speaker 1: Why did I leave him? I'm alive, he's dead. That
- 7:54Speaker 1: she and her children get together and they actually write
- 7:58Speaker 1: a book call are You with Me? Because it's not
- 8:02Speaker 1: like are you with me? Like do you understand? It's literally,
- 8:06Speaker 1: are you with me? Dad? Are you still with me?
- 8:09Speaker 1: Because her three little boys were having such a horrible
- 8:12Speaker 1: time dealing with their father's sudden death, she writes the
- 8:16Speaker 1: book and she's on local TV promoting it, and I
- 8:19Speaker 1: want you to hear her words, devastated after her husband's death.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Take a list an hour cut eight.
- 8:25Speaker 7: My husband passed away unexpectedly last year. So it's March fourth,
- 8:30Speaker 7: was a one year anniversary for us, and he was
- 8:33Speaker 7: thirty nine. It completely took us all by shock. And
- 8:38Speaker 7: we have three little boys, ten, nine, and six, and
- 8:43Speaker 7: you know, we kind of my kids and I kind
- 8:45Speaker 7: of wrote this book on the different emotions and grieving
- 8:51Speaker 7: processes that we've experienced last year, and you know, hoping
- 8:54Speaker 7: that it can kind of help other kids, you know,
- 8:59Speaker 7: deal with this kind of you know, find happiness some
- 9:03Speaker 7: some way or another.
- 9:04Speaker 1: And let's hear a little bit more of Corey Rich's
- 9:07Speaker 1: on Good Things Utah that's on KTVX, describing what she
- 9:13Speaker 1: and her children had in your are cut nine.
- 9:17Speaker 7: I'm new to all of this, so kind of doing
- 9:18Speaker 7: all you know, research and reading books and things to
- 9:22Speaker 7: try and understand, you know, not only how to grieve
- 9:26Speaker 7: as a widow, as a wife, but also you know,
- 9:29Speaker 7: with my kids, how to help them, how to help
- 9:31Speaker 7: them understand what just happened. And what I have kind
- 9:36Speaker 7: of found is as I mentioned, it's kind of the
- 9:38Speaker 7: three c's is how I has visualized it, and it's
- 9:42Speaker 7: you know, connection, continuity, and care, and it's you know,
- 9:47Speaker 7: making sure connection is the one major one, and making
- 9:51Speaker 7: sure that their spirit is always alive in your home,
- 9:53Speaker 7: you know, and memories are always brought up, and doing
- 9:56Speaker 7: things that your loved ones love to do, whether it's writing, bikes,
- 10:00Speaker 7: their favorite dinner, and just constantly you know, talking about that.
- 10:03Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking about how children cope with the
- 10:07Speaker 1: death of a dad and doing things that remind you
- 10:12Speaker 1: of your loved one. To doctor Angie Arnold, I know
- 10:17Speaker 1: every year on my dad's birthday every night after dinner,
- 10:21Speaker 1: because my dad and mom had largely moved in with us,
- 10:27Speaker 1: spending a lot of times with us, because you know,
- 10:30Speaker 1: the children were so little. Just as he passed away,
- 10:33Speaker 1: and every night after supper, I would make him a
- 10:37Speaker 1: cup of decaf. So every year on his birthday or
- 10:41Speaker 1: really throughout the year, I will send my sister a picture,
- 10:46Speaker 1: you know, like on a text, of a cup of
- 10:49Speaker 1: decaf just steaming, because we both know what that means.
- 10:54Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering what you, as a parent can
- 10:57Speaker 1: do to help your children, how you Scrucia. I mean,
- 11:00Speaker 1: I was an adult when my father passed away, but
- 11:03Speaker 1: these are little little boys.
- 11:04Speaker 5: Well, and Nancy, it's important for all of us to
- 11:06Speaker 5: remember that each child will will remember this differently according
- 11:13Speaker 5: to how old they are. Each child is going to
- 11:14Speaker 5: have a different experience of this grief, So it's very
- 11:17Speaker 5: important to work with each child where they are when
- 11:22Speaker 5: this happens, and not gloss it over as if everyone's
- 11:26Speaker 5: experiencing the same kind of grief. Depending how young some
- 11:30Speaker 5: of the children are, they may not have the words
- 11:32Speaker 5: to express how they feel about the fact that their
- 11:34Speaker 5: father is gone. The older ones have had more time
- 11:37Speaker 5: with their dad, and they're going to have different memories
- 11:40Speaker 5: with their dad. So it's very important to help the
- 11:43Speaker 5: children remember the things that they remember according to what
- 11:47Speaker 5: their ages were when the parent passed away.
- 11:51Speaker 1: And this is how they came up with the name
- 11:55Speaker 1: of the book. Are You with Me and Our cut eleven.
- 11:59Speaker 7: The first day of SKO and you know all the
- 12:01Speaker 7: nerves that kids face on the first day of school
- 12:03Speaker 7: with nuke, you know, and just hoping, you know, Dad,
- 12:07Speaker 7: like walk with me, like help me get through today.
- 12:10Speaker 1: They give me the strength to do that.
- 12:12Speaker 7: And it has found you know, it's been a lot
- 12:15Speaker 7: of peace for my kids to you know, to really
- 12:18Speaker 7: remember that in the back of their head that they're
- 12:20Speaker 7: never alone.
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- 14:05Speaker 1: You know, I want to go back to doctor Kendall
- 14:07Speaker 1: Crown's chief medical examiner, Terran County, Doctor Crowns. I remember
- 14:13Speaker 1: as a girl, my dad have his first carnary thrombosis
- 14:18Speaker 1: at home and my mom, you know, screaming, and I
- 14:23Speaker 1: could hear a slapping sound. She was trying to or
- 14:26Speaker 1: that's what I thought it was, and it was her
- 14:28Speaker 1: trying to give him CPR to keep him alive. The
- 14:33Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about these three little boys in that
- 14:36Speaker 1: home when mom is doing CPR on Eric Richards, who
- 14:42Speaker 1: is dead in the bedroom, already cold to the touch.
- 14:45Speaker 1: And I guess, once you're call to the touch, there's
- 14:47Speaker 1: no bringing you back. Would you agree with that, Doctor Crowns.
- 14:51Speaker 3: I would agree with that. Once you've gotten called, you're
- 14:53Speaker 3: probably pat of the time period where you can say so.
- 14:57Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns. It is unusual for thirty nine year
- 15:00Speaker 1: old man to just die in his sleep. So what
- 15:04Speaker 1: would a medical examiner do in order to determine cause
- 15:08Speaker 1: of death?
- 15:09Speaker 3: Well, what you do is a complete autopsy. If thirty
- 15:12Speaker 3: nine year olds usually don't die suddenly like that, there's
- 15:15Speaker 3: usually something else going on. So by doing a complete autopsy,
- 15:19Speaker 3: you would check all the organs for any disease, processes,
- 15:22Speaker 3: cornary promposas, cordinary or disease, different part and abnormalities, et cetera.
- 15:28Speaker 3: And then what you'd also do is draw toxicology to
- 15:31Speaker 3: run toxicology screens to see if there for any drugs
- 15:35Speaker 3: on board, and also do electrolytes or fluids from the eyeball,
- 15:40Speaker 3: where you could look at his dehydration status, his glue
- 15:43Speaker 3: coos the CFP had diabetes or.
- 15:45Speaker 5: Anything like that.
- 15:46Speaker 1: To justman joining us from dailymail dot com, I've taken
- 15:51Speaker 1: a long look at what we have of the medical
- 15:54Speaker 1: examiner's report. What exactly is the cause of death for
- 15:58Speaker 1: Eric Richards?
- 15:59Speaker 6: Well, we believe that according to this report, it's a
- 16:02Speaker 6: fatal dose of fentanyl, which is a synthetic opioid. Now
- 16:09Speaker 6: you need maybe two milligrams of this doctor to kill you.
- 16:13Speaker 6: He had five times out amoment in his body.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Five times the amount of a lethal dose a sentinel.
- 16:21Speaker 1: You know, I introduced to you doctor Paul Christo earlier.
- 16:25Speaker 1: In addition to being an associate prophet John Hopkins School
- 16:28Speaker 1: of Medicine, that's not shabby, he's also an opioid expert,
- 16:35Speaker 1: doctor Christo. As I said earlier, this is a devout
- 16:39Speaker 1: Mormon family. Again, they don't even drink chocolate milk because
- 16:42Speaker 1: they think it's a stimulant. So I've got them drinking
- 16:47Speaker 1: moscow mules plus fentunel. What exactly is fentanyl? I know
- 16:54Speaker 1: there's an opioid crisis I know there's a fentinyl crisis.
- 16:57Speaker 1: I know people are dying every day a fentyl overdose.
- 17:01Speaker 1: But could you give us some street names. What is
- 17:03Speaker 1: fentanyl and what does it do to you?
- 17:06Speaker 4: Well, fentanyl is an opioid first and foremost, and opioids
- 17:10Speaker 4: are used as pain relievers. They enter the bloodstream, they
- 17:15Speaker 4: bind to various different what are called opioid receptors in
- 17:19Speaker 4: the brain and spinal cord to reduce pain. First and foremost.
- 17:22Speaker 4: We use them for many many years as pain specialists
- 17:27Speaker 4: and also in the operating room. Is anisphysiologists. But fentanyl
- 17:31Speaker 4: is synthetic, So non synthetic opioids would be like codeine
- 17:35Speaker 4: for example, or morphine. Synthetic means it's just made in
- 17:39Speaker 4: the laboratory of a pharmaceutical company. Typically can be very
- 17:43Speaker 4: useful as a pain reliever.
- 17:44Speaker 1: I mean l like Walter White breaking bad. Yes, you
- 17:47Speaker 1: make it in a lab well, then make it in
- 17:49Speaker 1: an RV sometimes, but you just make it, you cook
- 17:52Speaker 1: it up.
- 17:52Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, you can make it an RV. You
- 17:55Speaker 4: can make it illegally, certainly, yes, and then pharmaceutically it's legal.
- 18:00Speaker 1: So glad you said that, Doctor, Christo because a further
- 18:03Speaker 1: analysis reveals that the fentanyl in Eric's blood was not legal.
- 18:11Speaker 1: So apparently you can tell whether fentanyl is illegal, such
- 18:16Speaker 1: as prescribed by a doctor and you go get it
- 18:18Speaker 1: at the pharmacy or illegal, And I guess that goes
- 18:21Speaker 1: straight back to how it's made.
- 18:22Speaker 9: That's right.
- 18:23Speaker 4: We have more sophisticated methods now determining whether medications or
- 18:27Speaker 4: drugs are legal or illegal. And in this case, it
- 18:30Speaker 4: sounds like it was illegal.
- 18:31Speaker 1: So bottom line, he's not getting it from the Walgreens
- 18:36Speaker 1: or the CVS or the Dwayne Reid. He's getting it
- 18:40Speaker 1: somewhere else. Okay, uh, you know who would know this
- 18:45Speaker 1: on this panel, Let's just go with doctor Angie Arnold.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Do you know what cine? Moscow mule?
- 18:51Speaker 10: No?
- 18:52Speaker 5: I'm sorry I don't.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Oh man, I got a surprise that you just surprised
- 18:55Speaker 1: me because I could just see you kicked bat with
- 18:57Speaker 1: some of those copper I bet Bobby Chacone does. Bobby
- 19:00Speaker 1: chicon former special agent with the FBI and screenwriter for
- 19:05Speaker 1: Criminal Minds. You can find him at Bobby chicuone dot com. Bobby,
- 19:10Speaker 1: there is no way you don't know what a moscow
- 19:11Speaker 1: mule is no.
- 19:12Speaker 9: Yeah, the basic ingredients of ginger beer and vodka or
- 19:16Speaker 9: some kind of carder liquor's usually served in like a
- 19:19Speaker 9: copper cup. It's a very specific drink. Ginger beer obviously
- 19:22Speaker 9: ginger people familiar with ginger has a very strong kind
- 19:25Speaker 9: of taste, a very unique kind of taste, almost overpowering
- 19:28Speaker 9: if you use too much of it. So, yeah, it's
- 19:31Speaker 9: a very specific drink. It's become very trendy in recent years.
- 19:34Speaker 9: And ginger beer is kind of the overwhelming taste that
- 19:37Speaker 9: you get that ginger from the ginger beer, which is
- 19:40Speaker 9: the main ingredient.
- 19:41Speaker 1: To doctor Paul Christa joining us. If you're an expert,
- 19:44Speaker 1: what does what does finnyl taste like?
- 19:48Speaker 4: Mil is usually tasteless. It's usually tasteless.
- 19:50Speaker 1: So if I chewed up an oxy, it would taste
- 19:53Speaker 1: like nothing.
- 19:54Speaker 4: Well, oxy now is different from fentanyl.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Okay, that shows how much I know.
- 19:58Speaker 4: But yes, probably would taste a bit different.
- 20:02Speaker 1: What's a street name for fentanyl?
- 20:04Speaker 4: There really is no street I mean it typically goes
- 20:06Speaker 4: by fentanyl.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Can it be in a tablet?
- 20:08Speaker 4: Absolutely?
- 20:09Speaker 1: And so if I chew up a fentyl tablet, I
- 20:12Speaker 1: taste nothing.
- 20:13Speaker 4: Typically You're not going to taste anything unless something's been
- 20:15Speaker 4: added to the.
- 20:16Speaker 1: Tablet interesting, Interesting, doctor Paul Christo. According to my Crack
- 20:22Speaker 1: legal analyst Jackie, there are some street names crazy what
- 20:27Speaker 1: did you say, Crazy One? Crazy One, dance Fever, Dragon's breath.
- 20:33Speaker 1: I've never heard any of that, so I don't know
- 20:35Speaker 1: how reliable that is.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Can I make a statement?
- 20:38Speaker 1: Yes? Jump in.
- 20:39Speaker 3: So when it first came out, it was called drop
- 20:41Speaker 3: dead because a lot of the people who were injecting
- 20:45Speaker 3: fentanyl died so quickly they left the needle in their arms.
- 20:50Speaker 3: So the street name was originally dropped dead because when
- 20:53Speaker 3: you took it, you dropped dead instantly. I think that's
- 20:56Speaker 3: kind of fallen out of favor because every every area
- 20:59Speaker 3: has for it.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's a little bad for business for dopers.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Well that business, that's why it started.
- 21:06Speaker 1: Long only you Candle crowns only. Well, you can imagine
- 21:10Speaker 1: the shock that reverberates through the community when this goes down.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Take a listen our cup fourteen kt the X. We
- 21:19Speaker 1: have breaking news of this.
- 21:20Speaker 11: Our local children's book author charged with murder. Thirty three
- 21:24Speaker 11: year old Corey Richards of Chemis is being held in
- 21:26Speaker 11: the Summit County jail with no bail. Now she promoted
- 21:29Speaker 11: her book on the Grief on Good Things, Utah. That's
- 21:32Speaker 11: the video you're seeing here. This is about a month ago.
- 21:35Speaker 11: Court documents today showing the murder happened in March of
- 21:38Speaker 11: twenty twenty two, an online obituary showing her husband, thirty
- 21:43Speaker 11: nine year old Eric Richards, died that same month.
- 21:45Speaker 1: As it turns out, according to investigators, there had been
- 21:51Speaker 1: other previous instances where the wife in this case had
- 21:57Speaker 1: tried to murder her husband. And I find it extremely
- 22:02Speaker 1: interesting and I want to go to Jeffrey Wolf on
- 22:05Speaker 1: this criminal defense attorney, high profile criminal criminal defense attorney
- 22:09Speaker 1: joining us out of Colorado. You can find them at
- 22:11Speaker 1: Wolflaw Colorado dot com. Jeffrey, you know.
- 22:16Speaker 9: What I love.
- 22:17Speaker 1: I love what we call in my jurisdiction similar transactions. Typically,
- 22:25Speaker 1: as we saw in the Alex Mardai case, for instance,
- 22:28Speaker 1: a person's history of bad acts cannot come in at
- 22:33Speaker 1: trial unless and until it has proven that those bad
- 22:37Speaker 1: acts are let's just say a fingerprint of the case
- 22:42Speaker 1: in chief to show motive, course of conduct, scheme, frame
- 22:47Speaker 1: of mind. Would you agree with that, Jeffrey Wolf.
- 22:50Speaker 10: Yeah, one hundred percent. The rule you're talking about is
- 22:53Speaker 10: Rule four or four B, which is a federal rule
- 22:56Speaker 10: of evidence that is mirrored in almost all fifty states.
- 22:59Speaker 10: That's going to talk about whether somebody's prior bad acts
- 23:02Speaker 10: can come in as evidence in the case against them. Currently,
- 23:06Speaker 10: it can't come in to show act and conformity therewith,
- 23:09Speaker 10: meaning just because they did something before they did it again,
- 23:12Speaker 10: But it can come in for all these other reasons
- 23:14Speaker 10: that you're talking about, plan, motive, scheme, modus operandi, to
- 23:18Speaker 10: show who this person is, how they operate, and how
- 23:21Speaker 10: that ties them to this event.
- 23:23Speaker 6: Two.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Jen joining us from dailymail dot com, Jensmith, what can
- 23:27Speaker 1: you tell us about prior incidents, including one on Valentine's
- 23:33Speaker 1: Day just a month they month before Eric drops dead
- 23:38Speaker 1: in a sleep. Yeah, exactly, so.
- 23:40Speaker 6: We know that the Valentine's Day incident that you mentioned.
- 23:43Speaker 6: Then they ate a meal together and he became very
- 23:47Speaker 6: ill afterwards. As a result, he ended up telling friends,
- 23:51Speaker 6: I think my wife has poisoned me. Not only is
- 23:54Speaker 6: that disturbing, but more so is the fact that this
- 23:58Speaker 6: was the second time he thought she had tried to
- 24:01Speaker 6: poison him. Once previously during a vacation with the family,
- 24:05Speaker 6: he told his sister that he thought she had tried
- 24:08Speaker 6: to poison him. So one place what happens after that?
- 24:13Speaker 1: So the first time we believe this is according to him,
- 24:17Speaker 1: And I'm going to go back to Jeff wolf Of
- 24:19Speaker 1: just a moment about how you can or cannot use
- 24:23Speaker 1: the words of someone now dead in court because under
- 24:27Speaker 1: the sixth Amendment, everybody on trial has the right to
- 24:30Speaker 1: cross examine witnesses, evidence, documents, tests used against them, and
- 24:36Speaker 1: if the person's now dead, you cannot cross examine them.
- 24:40Speaker 1: It's hearsay. So how can you get this information into
- 24:44Speaker 1: evidence to show if you can, that there were prior
- 24:47Speaker 1: attempts on Eric's life. The first one, Jenn Smith, is
- 24:51Speaker 1: I believe about three years ago in Greece, family vacation,
- 24:54Speaker 1: as you described, and they had dinner and drinks together
- 25:00Speaker 1: and he got very very ill, and that's when he
- 25:04Speaker 1: called a sister. Was that when he called a sister?
- 25:07Speaker 6: Yeah, we think so, we know that we're not sure
- 25:09Speaker 6: exactly when this vacation was, only that it was several
- 25:12Speaker 6: years ago, maybe a few years ago. And he confided
- 25:15Speaker 6: in his sister. And this is a sister who he
- 25:18Speaker 6: continued to confide in especially about his marital problems with Curry.
- 25:23Speaker 6: So that was the first instant.
- 25:25Speaker 1: So I believe it was about three years ago. That
- 25:28Speaker 1: was in Greece. Fast forward, he didn't die. Fast forward
- 25:33Speaker 1: to this past March. Okay, March a year ago. Yeah,
- 25:38Speaker 1: that's when he died the month before on Valentine's Day.
- 25:43Speaker 1: What happened Jin? What happened Jen Smith?
- 25:47Speaker 6: We know that they sat down to have dinner together
- 25:50Speaker 6: in their home and for whatever reason, even though he
- 25:53Speaker 6: has this previous suspicion that his wife has tried to
- 25:56Speaker 6: poison him at least once before he sits her, he
- 26:00Speaker 6: has a meal with her and again he becomes incredibly ill.
- 26:05Speaker 6: He doesn't die, and we don't really know even if
- 26:07Speaker 6: he went to the hospital. We're just going off of
- 26:10Speaker 6: what we've seen in the start for it, and it's
- 26:12Speaker 6: been released so far. He became very very ill after
- 26:16Speaker 6: that Valentine see.
- 26:17Speaker 1: And it was so bad he used an EpiPen and
- 26:20Speaker 1: vinagrill and still went unconscious. Guess what, he didn't die again,
- 26:27Speaker 1: Doctor Angie Arnold, if I had two brushes with death
- 26:31Speaker 1: while David is hovering over me, I would leave. But
- 26:36Speaker 1: I've got a feeling this guy, Eric Richards, did not
- 26:39Speaker 1: want to believe his wife would try to kill him,
- 26:42Speaker 1: even though he verbalized that I think she's trying to
- 26:45Speaker 1: poison me. I think he didn't want to truly accept
- 26:50Speaker 1: it and leave the boys.
- 26:51Speaker 5: I completely agree with you. And if you thought that
- 26:54Speaker 5: someone was actually trying to kill you, and this is
- 26:58Speaker 5: the person that has been called love of your life,
- 27:02Speaker 5: then what could she possibly do to your children if
- 27:05Speaker 5: you're not there? So you can't abandon your children for
- 27:08Speaker 5: your own sake. No, people don't do that. So he
- 27:12Speaker 5: was just taking his chances. I guess, scared, probably in
- 27:17Speaker 5: some disbelief that she would actually want to kill him. Right,
- 27:21Speaker 5: So you might think it, but you're still going to
- 27:24Speaker 5: be in disbelief that this woman who you're sleeping with
- 27:27Speaker 5: and who you're going on trips with and you're going
- 27:30Speaker 5: to the kids' baseball games with, is actually trying to
- 27:34Speaker 5: kill you, and who you're practicing your Mormon religion with.
- 27:38Speaker 5: How we call that an incongruent thought? How incongruent could
- 27:43Speaker 5: that be to this man? Okay, maybe she's trying to
- 27:46Speaker 5: kill me, but really is she?
- 27:49Speaker 10: Is?
- 27:49Speaker 12: She?
- 27:49Speaker 1: Yeah? I think he just really he may have said that,
- 27:52Speaker 1: but he couldn't truly take it in. You know another thing,
- 27:56Speaker 1: I love Bobby Chacone as I know you do too,
- 28:00Speaker 1: special agent with the FBI. I love cell phone data.
- 28:03Speaker 1: I love it so much. I want you to take
- 28:05Speaker 1: a listen to our cut seventeen our friend Ariel Harrison.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Evidence gathered in the death investigation revealed Corey claims she
- 28:12Speaker 2: was away from her phone that night and it was
- 28:14Speaker 2: left on a charger by her bed. Teams, However, gathered
- 28:17Speaker 2: evidence the phone was in use during that time and
- 28:20Speaker 2: sent messages had been deleted. Additional evidence showed Corey was
- 28:24Speaker 2: in contact with a drug dealer in Ogden leading up
- 28:27Speaker 2: to Eric's death. The legal document state she received both
- 28:31Speaker 2: hydrocodone pills and fentanyl from the dealer, claiming the drugs
- 28:35Speaker 2: were intended for a client experiencing back pain. At one point,
- 28:38Speaker 2: please say she requested for quote the Michael Jackson stuff,
- 28:42Speaker 2: asking specifically for fentanyl. Information from the autopsy report determined
- 28:47Speaker 2: Eric died from an overdose of fentanyl five times the
- 28:50Speaker 2: lethal dosage.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Well that's like drinking from the fire hydrant. That is
- 28:54Speaker 1: so much, way too fast. I can't drink it and
- 28:58Speaker 1: let's just start with Bobby Chacne the phone evidence, because
- 29:04Speaker 1: she says, I wasn't on the phone all night. I
- 29:07Speaker 1: plugged it in in our room, and then I went
- 29:10Speaker 1: down the hall to sleep with one of my boys
- 29:12Speaker 1: who was having nightmares. I go back at three am
- 29:16Speaker 1: ish and I find him culture the touch. Did I
- 29:20Speaker 1: immediately perform CPR, But the phone says and helped me out?
- 29:26Speaker 1: Jas Smith, I believe the phones showed that there have
- 29:28Speaker 1: been a lot of texting back and forth during the
- 29:31Speaker 1: time where she says the phone was plugged in, not
- 29:34Speaker 1: in use while she was in her son's room, and
- 29:38Speaker 1: all those texts were deleted. So what is she doing
- 29:43Speaker 1: texting back and forth while her husband is dying and
- 29:46Speaker 1: then lying about it? I mean, Ja Smith, that are
- 29:50Speaker 1: those facts correct?
- 29:51Speaker 6: Those facts are absolutely correct. Now, she obviously thought that
- 29:55Speaker 6: she was outsmarting the authority when she told them that
- 29:58Speaker 6: she left her phone, and maybe she thought that it
- 30:01Speaker 6: was the location inside the heismand so but yeah, she
- 30:06Speaker 6: there is a record, there's a digital record. We know
- 30:08Speaker 6: that we've spoken about it many times. Then you can't
- 30:11Speaker 6: get rid of it, this digital foit print.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Yes, Bobby's Cohn just saw digital evidence basically convict Alex
- 30:19Speaker 1: Murdogg and the double murder of his wife and son,
- 30:22Speaker 1: Maggie and Maggie and Paul. So what about this, have
- 30:26Speaker 1: my phone plugged in the whole night, you know, until
- 30:28Speaker 1: I find him killed? Overdad?
- 30:30Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean when you have a case like this
- 30:31Speaker 9: with she's the only other person that could have, you know,
- 30:34Speaker 9: either rendered aid or caused harm. There's no fourth entry,
- 30:37Speaker 9: there's no blunt trauma. You immediately start to get her
- 30:40Speaker 9: story and for her her initial statement. The minute those
- 30:43Speaker 9: phone records come back and you realize she lied to you,
- 30:46Speaker 9: she has to become suspect number one because now, why
- 30:48Speaker 9: would a wife lie about using her phone in the
- 30:51Speaker 9: immediate aftermath of finding her husband dead, or during the
- 30:55Speaker 9: period where she found him dead, or shortly before that.
- 30:57Speaker 9: So the minute you find out she lied to you
- 30:59Speaker 9: about the phone, you have to start taking a much
- 31:02Speaker 9: harder look at her, who her associates, look at her
- 31:04Speaker 9: phone records, harder who shod been calling? Who should be
- 31:07Speaker 9: going in contact with? So she made her by lying,
- 31:10Speaker 9: She made herself suspect number one. If she would have
- 31:13Speaker 9: simply come up with a different excuse on why she
- 31:16Speaker 9: was texting maybe she had the phone in bed with
- 31:18Speaker 9: her with the kid and she was. But the minute
- 31:21Speaker 9: she lied about that, she has to become suspect one
- 31:23Speaker 9: right then.
- 31:24Speaker 1: The gig is up. Jeffrey Wolf, high profile lawyer joining
- 31:27Speaker 1: us out of Colorado at Wolflawcolorado dot com. I want
- 31:32Speaker 1: you to take a listen to another alarming circumstance and
- 31:36Speaker 1: our cut three our friends from crime online dot com.
- 31:39Speaker 13: Valentine's Day twenty twenty two. Eric Richins becomes violently ill
- 31:44Speaker 13: after suffering an allergic reaction after having dinner with his
- 31:47Speaker 13: wife of nine years, Corey. He breaks out in hives,
- 31:50Speaker 13: can't Breathe passes out after using his son's EpiPen and
- 31:53Speaker 13: taking Benadreel. When Eric wakes up, he calls his business partner,
- 31:57Speaker 13: Cody Wright to let him know what has just happened. Then,
- 32:01Speaker 13: without Corey knowing, Eric changes the beneficiary of his will
- 32:05Speaker 13: and his power of attorney, replacing his wife Corey with
- 32:09Speaker 13: his sister. Legal paperwork suggests that Eric believes Corey might
- 32:14Speaker 13: kill him for the money, and he wants his children
- 32:16Speaker 13: to be financially secure.
- 32:18Speaker 1: I mean, Jeffrey Wolf, Mini A true word is spoken
- 32:22Speaker 1: in just says Shakespeare. But truer words were never spoken.
- 32:27Speaker 1: He goes, she might try to just kill me for
- 32:29Speaker 1: the money. He's dead.
- 32:45Speaker 8: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Here, you've got her this part of Jeffrey Wolf. She
- 32:58Speaker 1: goes into his life insurance policy where his partner, Cody
- 33:08Speaker 1: is his beneficiary, his business partner, and she changes it
- 33:13Speaker 1: to make her exclusively the life insurance policy beneficiary. And
- 33:19Speaker 1: he's so worried after this Valentine's Day incident where he
- 33:23Speaker 1: gets horribly ill, he cracks a joke, Hey, she might
- 33:27Speaker 1: kill me for the money, and he changes his will.
- 33:32Speaker 1: I mean, Jeffrey willf That is no joke.
- 33:36Speaker 10: No, it certainly is no joke. And what you saw
- 33:39Speaker 10: here in this case is you see her attempt to
- 33:42Speaker 10: take his business life insurance policy. I have one with
- 33:45Speaker 10: my law partner. If something happens to one of us,
- 33:47Speaker 10: we want to make sure the business is secure. And
- 33:49Speaker 10: so she goes into that policy and attempts to change
- 33:52Speaker 10: it so that she gets the money if he dies.
- 33:55Speaker 10: And then he has this magic allergic reaction. My wife
- 33:59Speaker 10: has a severe allergy that could cause problems for her.
- 34:02Speaker 10: One of my employees, does you can bet your bottom dollar.
- 34:05Speaker 10: If I'm making them food or if I'm buying a
- 34:06Speaker 10: meal for them, I'm making sure that those ingredients are
- 34:09Speaker 10: not present, because those are people I care about who
- 34:12Speaker 10: I have a knowledge would be in trouble.
- 34:14Speaker 1: What is your wife allergic to you? By the way, She's.
- 34:16Speaker 10: Allergic to raw tomatoes. It's a very unique allergy that
- 34:19Speaker 10: a lot of restaurants have trouble with. But you can
- 34:22Speaker 10: bet your bottom dollar there's no raw tomatoes than anything
- 34:24Speaker 10: I buy her or serve her, because I know what
- 34:27Speaker 10: would happen, okay, And so the fact that she did
- 34:31Speaker 10: that is incredibly concerning. And she did it after attempting
- 34:35Speaker 10: to make that change. The company caught it, by the way,
- 34:38Speaker 10: and it was changed back. And then when he wakes
- 34:42Speaker 10: up from that, he calls his business partner to tell
- 34:45Speaker 10: him his suspicions. Joking or not, that could be a
- 34:48Speaker 10: present sense impression, which is a reason to get hearsay
- 34:51Speaker 10: in at the trial. Since you were mentioning hearsay before.
- 34:54Speaker 10: Wasn't aware I had an evidence test today, but I'm
- 34:56Speaker 10: going to pass it.
- 34:57Speaker 1: I was ready to pounce on you with a here's
- 35:00Speaker 1: say loophole that go.
- 35:03Speaker 10: Ahead, I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. My
- 35:05Speaker 10: evidence practicum professor from law school would be so proud
- 35:09Speaker 10: and so present. Sense impression allows those statements of somebody
- 35:13Speaker 10: who is not available to be cross examined.
- 35:15Speaker 9: To come in.
- 35:16Speaker 10: But it's going to require a recency to the event
- 35:19Speaker 10: and something to say that they were still under the
- 35:21Speaker 10: impression of that event in order to be able to
- 35:24Speaker 10: get that statement in. So how quickly he called him
- 35:27Speaker 10: after he woke up needing to use an epipennant benadryl
- 35:30Speaker 10: is going to matter a great deal.
- 35:33Speaker 1: How would you compare presences impression to excited utterance exception?
- 35:38Speaker 10: So, excited utterance is something that happens right then you're
- 35:41Speaker 10: seeing something and you're saying exactly what you're seeing in
- 35:44Speaker 10: that moment.
- 35:45Speaker 1: It happens a lot.
- 35:45Speaker 10: On nine to one one.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Calls right right when you wake up from an overdose
- 35:49Speaker 1: of fentel that kind of excited utterance.
- 35:52Speaker 10: It could be an excited utterance, but it has you
- 35:54Speaker 10: have to be excited, right, So it's not just that
- 35:57Speaker 10: you're saying something that's happening and relaying it as it's happening.
- 36:00Speaker 9: You have to be in an.
- 36:01Speaker 10: Excited state as well. That emotional state. If he called
- 36:04Speaker 10: and he's making a joke about it, that could still
- 36:07Speaker 10: be a present sense impression to say that this is
- 36:10Speaker 10: something that I have recently seen.
- 36:12Speaker 1: You think there's any problem getting these statements in?
- 36:14Speaker 10: Honestly, I think that it's going to be a tough
- 36:16Speaker 10: road to hoe to get these statements of somebody who's
- 36:19Speaker 10: not able.
- 36:20Speaker 1: I totally disagree. That's why we have the exceptions to
- 36:23Speaker 1: the hearsay role for situations.
- 36:27Speaker 10: Just like this. It is exactly why we have the
- 36:30Speaker 10: hearsay exceptions. However, in a court and you're doing a
- 36:34Speaker 10: criminal trial, the only person who has a right to
- 36:36Speaker 10: a fair trial is the criminal defendant, and some judges
- 36:39Speaker 10: will err on the side of caution.
- 36:41Speaker 1: True, Okay, you know what, let me throw something else
- 36:43Speaker 1: at you. Let me throw something else at you. Now
- 36:46Speaker 1: we already know that you know what's your cut five KSL.
- 36:51Speaker 14: Core papers say Corey first bought painkillers from a drug
- 36:54Speaker 14: dealer weeks later, asking for something stronger. She called it
- 36:58Speaker 14: some of the Michael Jackson's That was just before Valentine's
- 37:02Speaker 14: Day last year. Records say on Valentine's Day, Eric became
- 37:06Speaker 14: very ill and believed he had been poisoned and told
- 37:08Speaker 14: a friend he thought his wife was trying to poison him.
- 37:12Speaker 14: The dealer told police that two weeks later, Corey purchased morphetanyl.
- 37:16Speaker 14: Six days later, on March fourth, twenty twenty two, Eric
- 37:20Speaker 14: was found dead of a fentanyl overdose.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Let me get this straight. Jen Smith, chief investigative reporter
- 37:25Speaker 1: dailymail dot Com, on the story from the very beginning.
- 37:28Speaker 1: So he has the horrible episode in Greece where he
- 37:33Speaker 1: calls his sister says, I swear I think she's trying
- 37:35Speaker 1: to kill me.
- 37:36Speaker 9: Ha ha ha.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Then fast forward to February twenty twenty two, Valentine's Day,
- 37:43Speaker 1: another horrible episode after eating and drinking. There is your
- 37:47Speaker 1: similar transaction Jeff Wolfe. Always after ingesting food or or
- 37:52Speaker 1: drink beverage with his wife, always the same mo motus operandi,
- 37:58Speaker 1: method of operation. It's whatever it is. If whatever he
- 38:01Speaker 1: is ingesting, so is Valentine's. They have a dinner and drinks, Bam,
- 38:07Speaker 1: he's out again. This time he lives the second time,
- 38:13Speaker 1: changes his insurance back, changes his will, And then we
- 38:19Speaker 1: find out that prior to the February incident Valentine's and
- 38:23Speaker 1: the March incident, she goes back to the drug dealer
- 38:26Speaker 1: and she says, hey, I need some more. She buys
- 38:29Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars worth of fentinyl in March. He doesn't die.
- 38:35Speaker 1: She goes back to the same dealer says, hey, give
- 38:37Speaker 1: me some more. Man. She buys nine hundred dollars worth more.
- 38:41Speaker 1: This time he dies. You know, have you ever seen
- 38:45Speaker 1: those pictures? If you want to be an artist, you
- 38:47Speaker 1: can just paint between the lines and suddenly have this
- 38:50Speaker 1: beautiful picture. Jeff Wolf's yeah, I have seen it.
- 38:53Speaker 10: And that's what we're looking at here, is that the
- 38:55Speaker 10: pieces of this just keep coming into focus. And throw
- 38:59Speaker 10: on top of the fact that these are similar transactions
- 39:02Speaker 10: that could go to a modus operande or a pattern
- 39:05Speaker 10: of behavior. But throw into that that a lot of states,
- 39:08Speaker 10: my state Colorado being one of them, have domestic violence
- 39:11Speaker 10: allowances for similar transaction. Four be evidence as well to
- 39:16Speaker 10: show the certain types of behaviors that can occur in
- 39:19Speaker 10: a domestic violence relationship as well. And you're going to
- 39:22Speaker 10: start seeing all of this stuff like an avalanche coming
- 39:25Speaker 10: in against the defense, and it is going to be very,
- 39:27Speaker 10: very tough to beat it all back with, no matter
- 39:30Speaker 10: how big your that.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Is Bobby Jacon and Jenn Smith. I want you to
- 39:33Speaker 1: hear our cut seven are friends at ABC.
- 39:35Speaker 12: A Utah woman who wrote a children's book about coping
- 39:38Speaker 12: with grief after the death of her husband last year
- 39:41Speaker 12: has now been charged with his murder. Corey Richins was
- 39:43Speaker 12: arrested yesterday accused of poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl.
- 39:47Speaker 1: She also faced drug charges.
- 39:49Speaker 12: Just last month, Richards appeared on local TV to promote
- 39:51Speaker 12: her book about a boy who lost his dad. At
- 39:54Speaker 12: the time, she said her husband's unexpected death left her
- 39:57Speaker 12: and their three boys reeling.
- 39:59Speaker 1: Bobby kin own not only the costly she murdered him.
- 40:03Speaker 1: She then writes a book and tries to sell it
- 40:07Speaker 1: on TV and on Amazon.
- 40:09Speaker 9: Really, yeah, I'm not sure that. I mean, I'm sure
- 40:11Speaker 9: the investigators are watching that. I'm not sure it's attacted
- 40:13Speaker 9: that much. I mean, they probably already had her in
- 40:16Speaker 9: their sight. You know, her journey to do this kind
- 40:20Speaker 9: of brings the next level evil to her. But I'm
- 40:23Speaker 9: sure that, you know, once they saw the toxicology report,
- 40:26Speaker 9: once they got those phone records back, which was all
- 40:28Speaker 9: within six, eight, ten weeks of the event of the murder,
- 40:32Speaker 9: they had her in their sites, and it was a
- 40:34Speaker 9: matter of finding that drug dealer, getting a statement from them,
- 40:38Speaker 9: and just tying everything together with the prosecutor and putting
- 40:40Speaker 9: it all together. That her writing the book, I mean,
- 40:43Speaker 9: I just I think that impacts her reputation in the
- 40:46Speaker 9: community more than this actual case because everything was put together.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Well, that's going to hurt her a whole lot more
- 40:52Speaker 1: than murdering her husband. Doctor Angey Arnold, will you help
- 40:56Speaker 1: me out please, I mean, to murder your husband and
- 41:00Speaker 1: then write a book about how much your children are
- 41:04Speaker 1: suffering what they're going through. We had one child that
- 41:08Speaker 1: I was already having nightmares, according to her. But doing
- 41:11Speaker 1: that not just to your husband, but to your children
- 41:14Speaker 1: and then trying to profit off of it.
- 41:16Speaker 5: With a book, Nancy, I think it shows that she
- 41:18Speaker 5: has a complete lack of attachment to her husband.
- 41:22Speaker 1: I certainly you're not about to say lots.
- 41:25Speaker 5: Of people do not develop attachment. There's something called attachment theory. Okay,
- 41:31Speaker 5: So I believe that she lacks attachment to the people
- 41:35Speaker 5: in her life, and that is what It doesn't mean
- 41:37Speaker 5: you're insane, no, but she doesn't have any attachment. How
- 41:40Speaker 5: do you kill your husband? So to me, that's the
- 41:43Speaker 5: worst thing that she's done, so anything after that okay.
- 41:46Speaker 1: For me, Doctor Angie Arnold. She can take her lack
- 41:49Speaker 1: of attachment capability and ride that broomstick straight to hell.
- 41:55Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye, friend,