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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. At around nine pm on
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  Speaker 1: March third, twenty twenty two, a thirty one year old
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  Speaker 1: woman named Corey Richins tucked her three young sons into
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  Speaker 1: their beds, and then headed downstairs to her kitchen inside
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  Speaker 1: of her luxurious home in suburban Utah. Once she got
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  Speaker 1: down to the kitchen, she yelled out for her husband,
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  Speaker 1: whose name was Eric, to come join her in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Corey had some big news that she had just learned
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  Speaker 1: that day, and now that their kids were all tucked
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  Speaker 1: away in their beds and were off to sleep, she
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  Speaker 1: and her husband could celebrate this big news and share
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  Speaker 1: a drink together. A moment later, Eric walked into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and Corey grinned at him and handed him his
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  Speaker 1: drink and then gestured for them to go upstairs to
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  Speaker 1: their bedroom. And so the two of them went upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: They sat down on the bed, and then Corey broke
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  Speaker 1: the big news. Corey's tiny real estate company had just
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  Speaker 1: found out that day that they were very likely going
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  Speaker 1: to close on a deal for this gorgeous twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: square foot mansion in Utah for two million dollars. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Corey knew once she bought this property she could do
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  Speaker 1: a couple of renovations to it and then quickly sell
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  Speaker 1: it for three million dollars, meaning she was about to
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  Speaker 1: make a one million dollar profit. Corey had been working
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  Speaker 1: really hard on her real estate business for years, but
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  Speaker 1: this really represented the first big brick. She and Eric
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  Speaker 1: lived in a very conservative part of Utah, where it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of expected that someone like Corey would stay
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  Speaker 1: home with the kids and be a good housewife and
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  Speaker 1: that would be her life. But Corey didn't really want that.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to have a professional career that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of on par with her husband's. Eric ran a very
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  Speaker 1: profitable masonry company that allowed the family to take vacations
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico and Spain every year, and also to afford
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  Speaker 1: their sprawling property at the end of the cul de sac.
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  Speaker 1: Corey had stayed home when the three boys were much younger,
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  Speaker 1: but now that they were five, seven, and nine years old,
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  Speaker 1: they had decided to hire a nanny, which had allowed
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  Speaker 1: Corey to finally go out and pursue her professional dreams.
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  Speaker 1: And so, totally beaming with pride, Corey sat there on
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  Speaker 1: the bed and clinked her husband's glass and went over
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  Speaker 1: all the details of the steal and talked about how
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  Speaker 1: great their lives were about to become with all this
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  Speaker 1: additional income. But fairly quickly both of them decided they
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  Speaker 1: were too tired to stay up and celebrate any longer,
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  Speaker 1: especially Eric, who earlier that day had gotten an allergy
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  Speaker 1: shot and it had totally knocked him out. He was
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  Speaker 1: feeling kind of weak and tired, and so the two
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  Speaker 1: of them decided to just go to bed, and so
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  Speaker 1: after brushing their teeth and changing, they got into their bed.
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  Speaker 1: They turned off the light and they were about to
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  Speaker 1: lay down and go to sleep when they heard their
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  Speaker 1: seven year old crying in his bedroom, and both parents
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  Speaker 1: let out a groan, and then Corey she stood up,
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  Speaker 1: indicating she would handle this because they knew often their
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  Speaker 1: seven year old would have nightmares and the only way
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  Speaker 1: he would go back to sleep was if his mom
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  Speaker 1: laid with him, and so Corey she kissed Eric, and
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  Speaker 1: then as Eric rolled over to go to bed, Corey
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  Speaker 1: walked out of the room. She went down the hall,
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  Speaker 1: went into her son's bedroom. She got under the covers,
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  Speaker 1: and then before long she and her son had fallen asleep.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours later, Corey suddenly sat up inside of
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  Speaker 1: her son's bed. It was about three am, and for
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  Speaker 1: a second she couldn't even figure out where she was.
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  Speaker 1: The house was silent, it was totally dark, and she
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  Speaker 1: was confused, but then she remembered she had gotten up
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  Speaker 1: to tend to her son, and so she checked on
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  Speaker 1: her son. She saw he was still sleeping, and so
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  Speaker 1: she climbed out of the bed. She tucked him back in,
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  Speaker 1: she gave him a kiss, and then she left his room,
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  Speaker 1: went down the hall and went back into her bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: where she climbed into her bed. Then she saw that
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  Speaker 1: Eric had kicked off all the covers and he was
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  Speaker 1: sleeping on his back, and so Corey laid down on
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  Speaker 1: the bed and kind of rolled up right against her
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  Speaker 1: husband and she pulled the covers up over both of them,
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  Speaker 1: and then she closed her eyes to go to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: But right as she did that, she noticed something very strange.
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  Speaker 1: Eric's body felt freezing cold. Corey opened her eyes and
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  Speaker 1: sat up in bed. She turned over and kind of
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  Speaker 1: pushed air to see if he would sit up and
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  Speaker 1: figure out why he was so cold, But Eric didn't budge,
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  Speaker 1: and when she pushed him, he felt really heavy, like
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  Speaker 1: dead weight, and so, suddenly starting to panic, Corey yelled
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  Speaker 1: Eric's name several times, but Eric didn't budge, and so
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  Speaker 1: Corey leaped from the bed. She grabbed her phone and
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  Speaker 1: she dialed nine one one, and when the dispatcher picked up,
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  Speaker 1: Corey was so hysterical as she's looking at her husband
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  Speaker 1: lying motionless in his bed, that she could barely tell
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  Speaker 1: the dispatcher what was going on. But finally she did
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  Speaker 1: get it out to the dispatcher, and the dispatcher set,
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  Speaker 1: stay calm, the ambulance will be there as soon as
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  Speaker 1: we can. And so just moments later, Corey heard the
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  Speaker 1: sirens outside, and so she ran downstairs. She flung the
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  Speaker 1: door open and practically cried with relief as the paramedics
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  Speaker 1: charged into the house. But when the paramedics got upstairs
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  Speaker 1: into the bedroom and they went to go revive Eric,
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  Speaker 1: they saw right away it was already too late. Eric
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  Speaker 1: was dead. First responders had no idea what killed Eric.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed like a really healthy, fit guy who actually
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  Speaker 1: just the day before had gone for a casual eight
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  Speaker 1: mile run. And he was also this big outdoorsman, always
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  Speaker 1: going on hikes and going on these long hunts, and
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  Speaker 1: so the idea that this guy had just suddenly died
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  Speaker 1: seemed really suspicious. The police did find a painkiller pill
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  Speaker 1: bottle on the bedside table next to Eric's side of
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  Speaker 1: the bed, and for a second they thought, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he overdosed on painkillers. But when they looked at
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  Speaker 1: the label on this pill bottle, it was immediately clear
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  Speaker 1: that this was a really old pill bottle and almost
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  Speaker 1: certainly had been empty for some time. When they asked
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  Speaker 1: Corey what she thought might have happened, she was totally
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  Speaker 1: in shock, but she did say, you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what happened to him, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the day before he did get that allergy shot, and
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  Speaker 1: he had a kind of adverse reaction to it and
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to go to bed quite early, which seemed odd,
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  Speaker 1: but both Corey and the first responders agreed that it
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  Speaker 1: seemed pretty far fetched that an allergy shot would lead
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  Speaker 1: to Eric's death. Suicide was also considered a possibility by
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  Speaker 1: first responders, but Eric really didn't have any reason to
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  Speaker 1: want to harm himself. He was a very devoted and
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  Speaker 1: loving father who adored his sons. He coached all their
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  Speaker 1: sports teams and went and all these adventures with them
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  Speaker 1: and was always out back kicking a soccer ball around
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  Speaker 1: with them. And his business was booming, and he had
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  Speaker 1: just learned that night that his wife's business was potentially
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  Speaker 1: going to start booming as well, and so ultimately the
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  Speaker 1: police told Corey that we're just going to have to
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  Speaker 1: open an investigation and try to figure out what happened,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be in touch and if you think of
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  Speaker 1: anything that might help the investigation, please let us know.
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  Speaker 1: And Corey said, of course, I'll tell you, but she
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't listening. All she was thinking about was her
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  Speaker 1: three sons, who were still sleeping in their beds and
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  Speaker 1: had no idea their dad was now gone. Over the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks, while the family waited for autopsy results,
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  Speaker 1: Corey really focused her energy on her three boys, who
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  Speaker 1: were really hit hard by the law of their dad.
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  Speaker 1: Eric had been such a hands on father that his
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  Speaker 1: absence was enormous in these boys' lives. The five year
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  Speaker 1: old kept asking where's Dad and when can I see
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  Speaker 1: him again? The older two boys, who did sort of
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  Speaker 1: understand that their dad was dead, would also ask questions like, well,
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  Speaker 1: can Dad still see us? Or can Dad still hear us?
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  Speaker 1: And these questions broke Corey's heart because she did not
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  Speaker 1: have an adequate answer to any of them, and so
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  Speaker 1: she tried to find a children's book online and in
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  Speaker 1: bookstores that dealt with grief in hopes that that would
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  Speaker 1: kind of help her sons deal with what they were
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  Speaker 1: going through. But none of the books she got helped
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  Speaker 1: at all, and so a few weeks after Eric's death,
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  Speaker 1: when still nobody knew anything about how Eric died or
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  Speaker 1: what had really happened, Corey decided that she would take
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  Speaker 1: a different approach to helping her son's grief. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: trying to read a book that somebody else wrote about
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  Speaker 1: how to handle grief, Corey just called her sons around
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  Speaker 1: one night and began telling them a story about their dad.
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  Speaker 1: And as she told them this kind of made up
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  Speaker 1: story about their dad being this angel that was taking
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  Speaker 1: care of them, she began drawing pictures for the crown
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  Speaker 1: and paper of their dad with wings and a halo,
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  Speaker 1: and she'd draw the kids down below waving up at
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  Speaker 1: their dad, and she would tell the boys that your
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  Speaker 1: dad is an angel now and he's looking down on you,
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  Speaker 1: and he can hear you, and he loves you. And
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  Speaker 1: this really seemed to work for the boys. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since his passing that the boys
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  Speaker 1: kind of connected with the fact that their dad was gone,
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  Speaker 1: but they still had this meaningful connection with him, and
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  Speaker 1: so very quickly, Corey's stories about their dad and the
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  Speaker 1: illustrations that would go with them became a ritual. Every
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  Speaker 1: night Corey would tell these stories and draw these pictures,
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  Speaker 1: and so as the days and weeks went by with
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  Speaker 1: still no word and no closure about what happened to
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  Speaker 1: their dad, Corey had a sort of epiphany. These stories
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  Speaker 1: Corey told her kids about their dad and how now
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  Speaker 1: he was this angel looking out for them. She could
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  Speaker 1: see firsthand how powerful it was and how really it
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  Speaker 1: was helping her son's cope with this loss, and she thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why don't we turn our stories and all
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  Speaker 1: these illustrations into an actual grief book for kids. That way,
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  Speaker 1: other families whose children are dealing with loss can read
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  Speaker 1: these stories as well and find some comfort. After all,
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  Speaker 1: Corey knew firsthand there really weren't any good grief books
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  Speaker 1: on the market, and so she knew for those that
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  Speaker 1: needed this, this would be huge. On April thirteenth, so
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  Speaker 1: six weeks after Eric had died, and several weeks after
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  Speaker 1: Corey and her kids had begun officially writing this kid's
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  Speaker 1: grief book, Corey was backing out of her driveway when
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  Speaker 1: from the other end of the cul de Sac she
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  Speaker 1: saw a police car coming down the way and it
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  Speaker 1: was the lead detective on Eric's case, Detective Wouldie. It
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  Speaker 1: down the road. He was waving to Corey, clearly getting
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  Speaker 1: her to see for a second, and so Corey she
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  Speaker 1: parked her car. She hopped outside and went up to
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  Speaker 1: talk to him, and immediately Detective Wood he got out
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  Speaker 1: of his car. He walked up to Corey and with
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  Speaker 1: a grave look in his face, he told her that
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  Speaker 1: he had some big news for her and it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be pretty upsetting, but he knew he had
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  Speaker 1: to tell her in person and right away. He told
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  Speaker 1: her that the autopsy results were in and they determined
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  Speaker 1: that Eric had not died of natural causes. He had
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  Speaker 1: actually died from a fentanyl overdose. Fentanyl is a very
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  Speaker 1: powerful opioid that's often mixed with heroin, and just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of fentanyl can kill someone, and Eric, it
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  Speaker 1: would turn out, had five times the lethal dose of
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  Speaker 1: fentanyl in his system. Corey was totally shocked at this
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  Speaker 1: news and told the detective that Eric didn't do drugs.
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  Speaker 1: The only drug he did was periodically he would eat
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  Speaker 1: a marijuana gummy before bed, but that was it, so
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  Speaker 1: this really didn't make any sense. The detective was respectful
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  Speaker 1: and kind of nodded his head and said, I totally
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  Speaker 1: understand that, but you know, these are the results, and
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  Speaker 1: we need to find out where he got fentanyl from,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're going to need to search all of
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  Speaker 1: the electronic devices in your house to see if we
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  Speaker 1: can find communication between your husband and whoever got him
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  Speaker 1: the fentanyl. Corey told the detective that of course they
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  Speaker 1: could do that, but as she began thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: of their devices, she suddenly remembered that Eric's business partner,
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  Speaker 1: Cody Wright, had actually taken Eric's laptop very shortly after
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  Speaker 1: Eric had passed away. Now, Corey didn't know why Cody
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  Speaker 1: had taken the laptop, but Cody had been a thorn
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  Speaker 1: in both Corey and Eric's side for several years now.
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  Speaker 1: Eric and Cody had been very close friends when they
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  Speaker 1: had started their masonry business together about a decade earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but they'd had a serious falling out a few years back.
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  Speaker 1: The two men had been on this elk hunting trip
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  Speaker 1: and at one point Eric had illegally shot and killed
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  Speaker 1: a bull elk, and Cody had actually reported Eric after
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  Speaker 1: this hunting trip to the game wardens, and as a result,
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  Speaker 1: Eric got in a lot of trouble and was temporarily
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  Speaker 1: banned from hunting anywhere in Utah. The two men still
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  Speaker 1: managed to continue to work together and build their masonry business,
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  Speaker 1: but it was very clear their relationship was totally fractured
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  Speaker 1: and would never be repaired. Now, Corey didn't get into
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  Speaker 1: all the details of the tensions with Cody, but she
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  Speaker 1: did tell Detective Woody that, you know, if you want
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  Speaker 1: access to Eric's laptop, you've got to go talk to
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  Speaker 1: Cody because he took it for some reason. And also,
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  Speaker 1: you really just ought to talk to Cody in general,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, maybe he has more to do with
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  Speaker 1: what happened to Eric and this whole fentanyl thing than
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  Speaker 1: he's letting on. The detective told Corey that he appreciated
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  Speaker 1: the information, and he appreciated being allowed to go in
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  Speaker 1: and collect all the devices, and that he would go
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  Speaker 1: talk to Cody and try to retrieve Eric's laptop. And
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  Speaker 1: then after that the detective thanked Corey and said they'd
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  Speaker 1: be in touch soon. But after this conversation with Corey,
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  Speaker 1: the investigation into Eric's death kind of stalled out. When
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  Speaker 1: police did follow up with Cody, they didn't find anything
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  Speaker 1: really worth pursuing, and outside of talking to Cody, no
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  Speaker 1: new information came in about Eric's death or about his
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  Speaker 1: connection to fentanyl, and so really there was nothing for
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  Speaker 1: police to operate on. And so while the family just
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  Speaker 1: kind of waited for more information to come out about
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  Speaker 1: whatever happened to Eric, Corey just focused her energy on
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  Speaker 1: taking care of her three boys and writing this grief
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  Speaker 1: book with them. And finally, on March fifth, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: so almost exactly a year after Eric has died and
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  Speaker 1: still police have no idea what happened to him, the
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  Speaker 1: grief book was finally done and Corey self published it
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon under the title Are You With Me? And
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  Speaker 1: right away the book was a total hit with parents
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  Speaker 1: of grieving children, and as the five star reviews poured in,
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  Speaker 1: so too did requests from local media for Corey to
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  Speaker 1: be interviewed and talk about this book and why she
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  Speaker 1: wrote it and how her kids are doing. Corey had
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  Speaker 1: no idea her book would be this successful, and so
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  Speaker 1: at first she was really terrified to do any of
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  Speaker 1: these interviews, but eventually she decided she would just say
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  Speaker 1: yes to all the interviews because she was very proud
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  Speaker 1: of what her and her kids had created, and she
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  Speaker 1: knew Eric would be proud to However, what Corey didn't
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  Speaker 1: know was there was going to be a massive unintended
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  Speaker 1: consequence from publishing this book. Ever since Eric was found
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  Speaker 1: dead in twenty twenty two, the police in Utah began
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  Speaker 1: painstakingly searching all of the electronic devices that the Richins
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  Speaker 1: owned and that Cody, Eric's business partner owned, and basically
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  Speaker 1: they were just looking anywhere for some sign of communication
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  Speaker 1: between Eric and whoever had given him the lethal fentanyl dose.
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  Speaker 1: And at some point during the search of all these devices,
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  Speaker 1: the police found something very unusual and they knew it
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  Speaker 1: very likely had to do with Eric's debt, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have any evidence to prove that, and so
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  Speaker 1: they just had to kind of sit on it and
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  Speaker 1: wait to see what happened next. And what happened next
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  Speaker 1: was shortly after Corey published her grief book. It got
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  Speaker 1: all this media attention, and in turn, because of this attention,
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  Speaker 1: Eric's death, specifically the unsolved nature of his death, also
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: got a lot of media attention, and eventually several people
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: who kept seeing all this news about Eric's unsolved death
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: reached out to police and said, you know what, he
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: did not overdose on fentanyl. He was murdered, and I'm
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: almost positive I know who did it. And lo and behold,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the alleged killer that all these people brought up to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the police was the same person that the police in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Utah had become suspicious of because of all those unusual
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: things they had found during their search of all of
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the electronic devices and so on May eighth, twenty twenty three,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: not long after getting all these tips about this alleged killer,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the police in Utah felt like they finally had enough
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: AMMO to go after this person, and they headed out
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to make an arrest. While we don't know for sure
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: what happened, because again this story it's ongoing, This case
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: has not even gone to trial yet. Here is what
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: prosecutors say really happened to Eric Richins on March third,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the night he died. That night, Eric
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: was upstairs when he heard Corey down in the kitchen
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: calling for him, saying to come down and join her,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and so he went downstairs. He went into the kitchen
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and immediately he saw his wife grinning ear to ear,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and she promptly handed him a drink and said, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: have big news and we're going to celebrate. And after
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the two of them went up to their bedroom. Corey
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: told Eric all about this big real estate deal and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: how their company was about to profit a million dollars,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and then after that, they clinked their glasses together, said cheers,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and took a sip from their cups. The drink that
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Corey made for both of them was called a Moscow mule.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's made with gin beer, vodka, and lyme. But when
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Corey mixed Eric's Moscow mule, she added one additional ingredient,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a lethal dose of fentanyl. It would turn out Corey
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: had been stealing money from Eric's bank accounts, and he
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: had found out. Eric also had discovered that Corey had
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: been taking out these massive loans in their family's name,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: which Eric was really upset about. In fact, Eric was
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: so upset with Corey that he wanted a divorce and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: was talking to a divorce lawyer and making sure after
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the divorce was finalized, that Corey could not touch his money.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: But perhaps sensing that a divorce was imminent and the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: money faucet would be turned off, Corey simply took out
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a two million dollar policy on Eric and then killed him.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And then shortly after that, in order to help her
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: sons deal with the loss of their father, who she killed.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: She wrote a grief book about it and sold it
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: for a profit. Police say Corey had been working for
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: weeks to figure out the right fentanyl dose to give
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to her husband. On Valentine's Day that year, Corey had
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: given Eric a poisoned sandwich that had fentanyl in it
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that she attached a love note to. But it obviously
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: did not kill Eric. He just broke out in hives.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So Corey got a stronger dose of fentanyl. She put
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: it in his drink on March third, and this time
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: it worked. The story that Corey told first responders when
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: they arrived to hopefully try to save Eric was that,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, they had had this celebratory drink and then
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they went to bed, and then she had gotten up
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to see her son, and then you know, when she
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: came back at three am, Eric was cold to the touch,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and she called nine to one one. But in reality,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: after she poisoned her husband and he's laying there still
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: on the bed, slowly dying from this overdose, she just
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: got up and paced around the house for several hours,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: googling things like how to destroy electronic evidence. And luxury
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: prisons for the rich in America. These searches were, of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: course the highly unusual and suspicious things that the police
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: saw when they looked through all those devices during the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: initial part of the search, But as much as it
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: made them think Corey likely had something to do with this,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: they didn't have enough to actually arrest her. However, after
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Corey published her grief book and went on this big
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: tour promoting her grief book. Eric's family who's watching this
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: happen on TV and listening to the radios, I mean,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: they just couldn't take it. It disgusted them because they
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: secretly believed that Corey had killed Eric over money. They
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: didn't like Corey to begin with, and it just felt
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: like she did this and now she's profiting on Eric's death.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And so family members began reaching out to police in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Utah and they said, you really need to look into Corey.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: We think she killed Eric. This whole grief book thing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: is a joke. She's a killer. Ultimately, it was those
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: calls from Eric's family to the police, combined with Corey's
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: very unusual and suspicious search history and electronic activity on
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the night that Eric died, that allowed police to arrest
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: her at her home on May eighth, twenty twenty three. Corey,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: who denies any wrongdoing and says she did not kill
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: her husband, is currently charged with aggravated murder, which could
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: lead to the death penalty if she's convicted. She's being
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: held without bail while she awaits trial, and her book
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: ar You With Me is no longer being sold on Amazon.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: On June eighth, nineteen eighty nine, in Pikeville, Kentucky, a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: young woman stood outside on the second floor balcony of
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a motel room, smoking a cigarette and staring down anxiously
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: at the parking lot below.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, a little Ford Tempo car pulled
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: into the lot, and the driver got out and started
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: walking towards the first floor of the motel. When the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: woman saw who the driver was, she instantly flicked her
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: cigarette and began charging down the outside stairs two at
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a time to go cut the driver off. Moments later,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the young woman and the driver would be inside of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that little Ford Tempo car together speeding down a dark
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: mountain road, screaming at each other about what the heck
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: they were going to do? Now. What happened that night
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: inside of that little car after the driver had finally
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: pulled over on that dark road, would be so rare
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and so terrible that the FBI would actually report that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: it literally, in its entire history, had never seen a
• 23:24
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• 23:28
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