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This case is about a wife and a mother who found herself [music] in perhaps a failing marriage, a business in trouble.
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What's your first name? And took, some could argue, an easy way out. I think she really wanted to
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improve her life and be free and be rich and have this facade of being the successful person that she wanted to be.
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My name is Eric. My name is Laura and we served as jurors in the Kouri Richins trial. Please have a seat.
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Kouri Richins didn't seem to me like someone with a very strong moral compass. Eric Richins was found dead in his home
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on March 4th, 2022. Eric was married to Kouri Richins and they had three [music] children.
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Ma'am, what is the status of the emergency? He's just cold. He's just cold. I thought I just came in the bed in our
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bed and I turned over and he's He's just cold. He's just cold. What happened today?
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He was just fine. He was fine. I don't know. It just It didn't The family had been alerted by Eric that
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if something happened to him to look at Kouri. It was almost like they knew something
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like this could happen someday. This was in the months leading up to his death. Right. He felt that his life could be at
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risk. Right. They suspected Kouri would take part in his death before it happened.
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The state alleged that Kouri Richins killed her husband Eric by giving him a lethal dose of fentanyl. A Summit County
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woman who wrote a children's book about coping with grief following her husband's death now accused of being the
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one that actually killed him. The book was to honor him, to express to these boys to remember their father.
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She's accused essentially [music] murdering the person who is the topic of the book. Words of wisdom, do not write
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books while you're being investigated. >> As we were preparing for [music] trial,
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>> Kouri was 100% pure goodness and kindness. She's a good, good human being. She might have had these good sides to
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her where she was giving, but she was willing to give that part up. Did Kouri Richens ever ask you to
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purchase for her illicit drugs? Yes. Based upon [music] the testimony and the evidence we saw against Kouri, I
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came to see her as pretty cold and pretty calculating. You have to understand that the jurors
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did not know her. They didn't know her. There was no smoking gun in [music] this
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case. There was one thing in this case that was absolutely [music] Kouri did it and
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there's no question. She basically sacrificed her husband to get what she wanted.
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>> [music] >> My sweet baby boys, in as much as you've been influenced into thinking that dad was murdered,
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that I took your dad from you, that [snorts] is completely wrong. It's an absolute lie.
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Kouri did not just kill Eric. She attempted to kill the spirit of everyone who loved him. She lied to his children.
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She lied to the world and has shown no remorse while dancing on his grave for profit.