Kouri Richins’ Murder Trial: Opening Statements

Oxycodone and hydrocodone are not similar like that! Hearing a medical personnel, say that in court is kind of appalling

I actully think she put the fetanlyn tabs into Erics old pill container and threw away his normal pain pills. Thereby allowing Eric to end up doing his own demise.

This case has had some of the most interesting good guys on earth, like the Private Eye, the Judge, the Prosecutor and definitely Katie Richins! Then there were the good and bad all through, plain loveable individuals, and also prototypes on both sides: it’s a lesson in humanity all told!

The problem was and will remain that Kouri Richins showed herself to lack the possibility of ever admitting culpability for anything, or of having a conscience, even the right feelings at the right places. [Imagine asking her lover if he’d ever killed anyone in Iraq, and “What did it feel like ?”] Then add a tendency to blame others – even the Judge, who seems about as likeable as Abraham Lincoln! It seems that’s the description of a personality type long been proven to be incurable, so there are prisons worldwide costing taxpayers a fortune, while research is ongoing. She [apparently] preferred having money to the lives of her husband and her three children – having secret life insurance policies on all of them. It sure looks as if she MIGHT have tried to kill her boyfriend too, but his dog got part of the poison and died; or maybe she was just testing how long Seroquel would make a man sleep, because, the next day she was going to put some Seroquel with the fentanyl in Eric, apparently so he’d sleep until he died, being no bother. After Eric’s death, one of her sons got very sick and she did nothing, wouldn’t even call an ambulance, so the nanny did. Then she interfered to prevent a blood test. 

She and her family have also tried, threatened, and succeeded in revenge. As the Judge said ” …simply too dangerous to ever be free!” 

Her children, anyone, can visit her, talk to, write to her, send gifts and do all kinds of things if they ever want to; but she won’t be able to blame others for her faults, take any life for revenge or to get anyone’s money, or for any reason…any and all of which she herself illustrated were possible, WITHOUT HER ADMITTING EVEN THE ABSOLUTELY PROVEN THINGS, and without her even telling her lawyers some evidence on HER SIDE. Like who was the investor she bought the “Michael Jackson stuff” for? And who told her to buy that specifically, because an addict would know that he could only get fentanyl those days! Neither a person in pain, nor an addict, [her alibi might be that Eric is both] is just out to commit suicide, and she’d already said he did not take drugs, then she changed, saying that it could be a fentanyl laced THC Gummy that killed him [but there was no marijuana in his body and those Gummies have never ever been laced with fentanyl]; or another time she said maybe his prescription Oxycodone [not in his body] did it, so now can she say Eric asked her for “the Michael Jackson stuff?” Impossible, because IF he were an addict, he’d know that “stuff” isn’t available. And he didn’t know how much, or what, he was taking, and yet was an addict [contrary to everyone who knew him well]? It can happen once that someone might be obliged to change stories to protect someone; but that lady could not tell the truth! She’d tell a different story to different people and at different times, and always for the same reason: to protect herself or to get some advantage, especially money. After his death, she turned out causes like pancakes. No one like that can live in society!

AFTER her husband’s death, Kouri had a party, and took two vacations – nothing surprising; they traveled “A LOT” she said; and she published a book to help children grieve, allegedly ghostwriting it. She’d had a vacation planned with her [dear to most of us] lover for a month after her husband’s death, but canceled that birthday present for him and took her mom and boys to Mexico, and her boys to Spain for a soccer match! Maybe the worst “sign” was three deleted gifs retrieved on her phone, and put there [ one cannot know by whom] within minutes after the body was wheeled out. One was of a woman drying her tears with cash ; one said “Idiots, idiots, everywhere,” and the third said “I’m really rich!” She could say she detested such aand such a one who sent those, and swear she’d sent him packing!

BEFORE the death, she’d told her lover she wanted to cuddle with him on a couch and watch a crime DOCUMENTARY! That’s a TRUE crime, for entertainment while cuddling with an illegitimate lover and seemingly while planning for the possibility of exactly that! She also changed the beneficiary on a $2 million insurance policy from Eric’s partner to herself, which of course, made the company ask Eric for confirmation! He changed it back; but she had no idea and presumably counted on it, as one of six policies in her favor! She also cashed several checks for sums she had no semblance of. Banks paid, before checking her balance, and she spent the money before being caught. Before Eric’s death, she had over $2,000 a DAY in high interest payday loan debts; but the day after he died, she signed her largest purchase by far, for the humongous Midway Mansion, uninhabitable, and built on marshlands needing an extensive tree population. Unable to pay the loans she’d taken to buy that, it was taken in foreclosure.

Answering those who make fun of Mormons: Try living in, or just visit several countries like India, Morocco, Switzerland and China! One meets good people everywhere. The weird thing is the animals in Australia! Practically everyone agrees on that; but what do you think of the billions of Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists? Once two Quaker ladies were washing dishes together. One said to the other, “All the world is mad but thee and me, Priscilla, and sometimes I wonder about thee!”

We are privileged in this case to see a variety of people one couldnt meet in a lifetime, including plain, good Mormons in Utah [!], a goodhearted, recovering drug addict and dealer; a repentant, naive, and faithful boyfriend; a fantastic judge seeming as good as Abraham Lincoln; a model prosecutor and a star private eye [all three making people pass out from admiration], plus a handful of objective forensic experts, from whom one learns worlds and wonders!

The villains all seem alike, in that they’re totally deluded and seem to lie through their teeth. Surprisingly, most of the strong and good people and victims are examples of practicing Mormons, in the State of Utah, which has long been famous for being the home of Mormons! How many people ever get to know them? Another kind of victim, Kouri’s beautiful best friend, Chelsea Barney, speaks her exact same obscene language and could seem just like Kouri, believes in her for 20 years, even after Eric’s death…and then loses all her savings to Kouri, and sees the light! Another beauty isn’t at all convinced until she learns that Kouri removed her wedding ring within weeks, and removed reminders of Eric from the house – things grieving widows don’t do! Then she says she never really knew her friend.

Just curious, I googled “beliefs of most good Mormons in Utah.” That was enlightening, and significant in this case. Good Mormons are hardworking, save [so that explains the prosperity of all the Richins, whose savings Kouri wanted], and do not drink alcohol or take drugs, so it was extremely unlikely that Eric was an addict! He didn’t even take much of a prescribed drug for pain, which Kouri emptied had apparently put by his bed for photographs! She was SO careless! It was dated 2020 in 2022 ! And that drug wasn’t in Eric’s body; but there WAS a LOT of fentanyl- far too much to indicate an accidental overdose! At some point I forget, Kouri swore he took some drug; but an undercover drug detective swore that no street drugs, including that, had been available for many years unless they had fentanyl in them! So Kouri said he took a THC Gummy before bed [a harmless Marijuana thing even accepted by Eric’s Mormon family]: that must have been laced with fentanyl. Well no, says the The undercover drug detective: no one has ever laced a THC Gummy with fentanyl! Kouri, her mother and Ronnie, all dug their own graves!

Mormons believe staunchly in burial BECAUSE, their belief is that the physical body is raised again on the Day of Resurrection! Who else believes that? But Kouri’s mother, and Kouri herself, were so uneducated that they thought they could lie, claiming Eric wanted to be cremated [which preludes an autopsy to determine the cause of death, which was really important: those two women did not want anyone to know Eric’s body was so full of fentanyl]. Kouri even dared to invent a sentence supposedly said by Eric, about wanting to be cremated]. Then his will was read! So one realizes that those two women will lie through their teeth, are uneducated, and think no one is smart enough to find out their secrets!

As a P.S: Kouri’s mother lived with her Lesbian lover, who died of a drug overdose, soon after a big insurance policy was taken out on her, with Kouri’s mom as sole beneficiary! The body? Cremated!

Look under Kouri Richins on Facebook. One sees the absolutely adorable boys’ faces, and we see Eric in a picture that shows him exactly as described by his friends and family!

It’s all enlightening!  Somebody, write a book! Pretty please!