What Kouri Richins’ Best Friend Never Saw Coming

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Aug 6, 2026 · 21m

She gave Kouri Richins forty-five thousand dollars. It was supposed to be a down payment on a home. A rent-to-own deal through Kouri’s real estate company. She moved her family in and started paying rent, believing she was building toward ownership. According to prosecutors, not a dollar of that money went where it was supposed to go. Kouri allegedly used it to cover her company’s debts. The lender foreclosed. The friend’s family lost the house.That friend isn’t the only person prosecutors say Kouri Richins used and discarded on her way to the murder of her husband Eric. There are twenty-six…