Eric Richins knew. He knew his marriage was dangerous. He knew his wife's business was collapsing. He knew she needed him dead more than she needed him alive. So he went to divorce attorneys. He went to estate planners. He removed Kouri from his will. He cut her from his life insurance. He built a trust she didn't know about — designed specifically to protect their three sons from the woman he'd married. He did everything a person could do to shield his children from what he saw coming. This Hidden Killers Week in Review combines two episodes telling Eric's story and exposing every step of what Kouri Richins did to him.

Eric survived the first poisoning attempt — a fentanyl-laced sandwich on Valentine's Day that left him gasping for air. He reached for his son's EpiPen because it was the only thing that could save him. After that, he told friends directly that he believed Kouri was trying to end his life. He was right. And despite knowing, despite preparing, despite building every legal barrier he could construct, he couldn't stop what was coming. Two weeks after Valentine's Day, Kouri handed him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl.

The woman who killed him owed $7.5 million. She had 236 bounced checks and fifteen failed renovation projects behind her. She had secretly purchased $1.9 million in life insurance on Eric's life. She had a boyfriend she was texting "love you" the night she mixed the drink. She had asked her housekeeper for fentanyl by calling it "the Michael Jackson stuff." And she had a prenup that made murder more profitable than divorce. A jury heard all of it and convicted her on every count in less than three hours. Eric's sons survived because of the trust their father built. Kouri never knew it existed.

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She bowed her head when the verdict was read. Five charges. Five guilty. A juror was wiping his eyes. Another stared directly at her. Three hours of deliberation after thirteen days of trial. In the final episode of our definitive five-part Kouri Richins series, we cover the reckoning — the trial, the zero-witness defense, Bloodworth’s devastating closing, and the three-hour verdict that ended the longest-running performance of Kouri Richins’ life.

The defense argued the investigation was sloppy and the evidence was circumstantial. The prosecution argued that circumstantial evidence built into a mountain the defense never tried to climb. Kouri now faces 25 years to life or life without parole, plus 26 additional felony charges in a separate case. But the real cost is measured in the people she destroyed — the husband she killed, the boys she orphaned, and the family that spent three years proving what happened. The last mask is off. There’s nothing left underneath.

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She searched “if someone is poisned what does it go down on the death certificate as.” Not overdosed. Poisoned. Her own word. In part four of our five-part definitive series, we lay out the digital evidence and public performances that sealed Kouri Richins’ conviction. Over 800 deleted text messages. A new phone loaded with searches about fentanyl dosages, prison conditions, and whether the FBI was coming for her.

A children’s grief book she paid a ghostwriter $2,500 to write, then promoted on local television with a promo code. A six-page letter from her jail cell coaching her family to tell her attorney that Eric got fentanyl from Mexico — a story she’d never told police, investigators, or anyone else in any official capacity. And an anonymous package her mother sent to the sheriff containing the book and a note declaring Kouri a “devoted wife and adoring mother.” The prosecution called it consciousness of guilt. The jury agreed.

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