Kouri Richins' New Trial Motion Says WHAT?!

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This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:06)
It's been a little while since we talked about our old friend Kouri Richins.
Well, today we're going to... you're in luck, you're in luck. I know you guys enjoy watching me get a little...

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a little...

**Tony Brueski** (0:21)
when we talk about this case. We're talking about it today because, well, Kouri, as you know, can do no wrong. This is all a setup. This is all a conspiracy against her. She had nothing to do with this. It's all one big lie. So she's she's instructed her attorneys to appeal, appeal, you know, the conviction. And that's that's where we begin. Two documents are filed in the same case within weeks of each other in Summit County, Utah. The first came from three boys under the age of 14 They wrote letters to the court. They didn't call the defendant Mom. They used her first name. One of them wrote that he wants her in prison forever. Love your son. How can children do this? Well, when you're that bad of a parent, children say, especially if you don't close their eyes to it, then you don't pretend that that person is something that they're not.
Sometimes the monsters in the room get found out simply by being the monsters in the room. And unfortunately, those children have to process it and deal with it. But they see it for what it is. One of them wrote that he wants her in prison forever. Another wrote that what she did was sick, that it had no reason to happen. The third addressed her directly and told her she only cared about herself and her stupid boyfriends.
He said he wouldn't feel safe if she were ever released. Good insight on those kids. Without a doubt, those letters were delivered by counselors because the children themselves were not present. They asked a judge to keep them safe. The second document came from the woman whose boys are afraid of her. It wasn't addressed to her children or the court. It was a text message to an admirer filed in the prosecution's sentencing memorandum. The last line read, They picked the wrong one. They haven't seen anything yet. That's where we begin. Because seven weeks after that text, Kouri Richins' attorney filed a 14-page motion for a new trial. The beginning of, They haven't seen anything yet.
At least the Kouri Richins' version is beginning.
I want to walk through every piece of it. Not because the motion has legal merit that should really worry anyone. Because it's the single clearest piece of evidence of who Kouri Richins actually is. And because the pattern it belongs to tells you everything the jury already figured out in three hours of deliberation. And her young children also know. Before we get to the legal arguments, you have to see the pattern. Because the motion doesn't make sense as a standalone legal filing. It only makes sense as the latest entry in a sequence that started the week Eric Richins died. So, if you're new to this case, we're going to give you a little recap. We're not going to go into every single detail because there's so much. But in case you need a little context here, here it is. And I do welcome your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. Those links are in the description. Eric Richins was found dead in his bed on March 4th of 2022 He had five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. The only people in the house that night were Kouri, Eric and their three young sons. She was not arrested at that moment. She had more than a year of freedom before law enforcement charged her. And what she what did she do with that year? Did she mourn?
Try to heal? No, she hired a ghostwriter and then she published a children's book about coping with the loss of a spouse. A lot of look at me energy going on over there. If I do this real covertly, a little covert narcissism at play, more like sociopathic. But if I do it and I'll tell everybody we're doing it to help the children heal, I'll be looked at as the hero.
And no one will suspect a thing. Oh, what a tangled web you weave.
So she published the children's book. She promoted it. She went on podcasts, presented herself as a grieving widow, raising three boys alone. She monetized the death she allegedly engineers and cast herself as the hero of a tragedy she authored. Anybody out there knows borderline sociopaths, narcissists like, oh, I know where I know how these people work. You're right. You do. And if you don't, consider yourself fricking lucky. Learn from our experiences, OK? Trust me. She was arrested on May 23rd. She went to trial in February 26 and in March of 26, a jury convicted her on every single count. Aggravated murder, attempted murder, two counts of insurance fraud, forgery. They deliberated for roughly three hours. And what did she do after the verdict? She picked up her phone and messaged her admirer. Not her children, not her lawyers, a man. She told him she was going to expose the county, the prosecution, the judge and Eric's family. She promised him it was just the beginning.