Why Did Kouri Richins Use Her Sentencing to Tell Her Kids the Murder Was a Lie?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 21, 2026 · 15m

She could have expressed remorse. She could have asked for mercy. She could have addressed even one thing her children described — the locked rooms, the dead animals, the fear that she'd come for them if released. Instead, Kouri Richins used forty-five minutes of courtroom time to tell her sons that the murder of their father is "an absolute lie" and that they've been "influenced" into believing it happened.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the speech on True Crime Today. The repeated instruction to "be like your dad." The simultaneous admission of infidelity and the claim that "our love…