Three cases. Three legal minefields. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the week’s biggest developments in one extended conversation. Kouri Richins’ finances are now on full display for the jury. A forensic accountant testified she Read more…
Leaving is the most dangerous time. The moment you start seeing clearly is the moment risk spikes. The relationship was never about love. It was about control. When control slips, they tighten their grip. This Read more…
For 25 years, the Cascio family was Michael Jackson’s shield. They testified at his 2005 trial. Frank Cascio wrote a book defending him. They went on national television saying Jackson never harmed anyone. Now all Read more…
The Kouri Richins murder trial entered its ninth day with prosecutors unleashing their most personal evidence yet — the words of her closest friends and the text messages she sent in the weeks and months Read more…
No arrest. No suspect. No person of interest. A month after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, investigators have nothing public to show—but innocent people are already paying the price. A 37-year-old man Read more…
Forensic accounting testimony just painted the clearest picture yet of Kouri Richins’ financial situation—and it’s worse than anyone knew. Negative $1.6 million net worth. A business account “perpetually in the hole.” Checks bouncing constantly. Hard Read more…
July 2009. A fifteen-year-old girl answers her missing sister’s phone. A man’s voice asks: “Do you know what I did to your sister?” Amanda Barthelemy received seven calls over the following weeks. The man described Read more…
Allie Staking, friend of Kouri, takes the stand in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
This extended Hidden Killers episode brings psychotherapist Shavaun Scott in for comprehensive analysis of two cases united by a single theme: the construction of alternate realities. Kouri Richins appears to inhabit a different reality than Read more…
Chelsea Barney, Friend of Kouri, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
Everyone loves them. You know what they’re really like at home. And you wonder if you’re crazy. This is Part 4 of “Surviving the Fog”—examining the psychology of the mask through the Kouri Richins case. Read more…
Gabe Morin, Owner of Mirror Lake Diner & Joshua Kaze, Friend of Eric Richins, take the stand in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal Read more…
We’re more than 33 days into the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. No suspect in custody. No clear resolution. Resources scaling back. And the internet is drowning in theories — cartels, coordinated kidnapping crews, private jets to Read more…
The voters of Lonoke County, Arkansas just chose a murder defendant to be their Republican nominee for sheriff. Aaron Spencer won 53.5 percent of the vote, crushing the thirteen-year incumbent whose deputies arrested him in Read more…
Marie Bramwell, Attorney & Becky Lloyd, C&E Stone Masonry, take center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March Read more…
Colin Gray guilty. Every count. Murder. Less than two hours of deliberation. Colin Gray guilty on all charges makes him the first parent in Georgia history convicted for a mass school shooting committed by his Read more…
The Kouri Richins murder trial took its most personal turn yet as prosecutors called her longtime boyfriend to the stand — and walked the jury through years of texts that prosecutors say reveal exactly what Read more…
The 911 call from the night Eric Richins died was played in court. Kouri was sobbing hysterically, barely able to answer questions. The defense called it “the sounds of a wife becoming a widow.” But Read more…
Before the fentanyl, prosecutors say there was fraud. Nearly half a million dollars allegedly siphoned from Eric Richins through forged signatures, unauthorized credit lines, and misdirected tax payments — all while Kouri Richins ran her Read more…
Robert Josh Grossman, Kouri’s lover, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
What happens when you’ve loved a monster? When the evidence piles up but your memory tells you something different about the Gilgo Beach Killer? In Part 3 of our LISK series, we examine the fracture Read more…
Kristal Bowman-Carter, estate planning attorney, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on Read more…
Defense attorney Bob Motta delivers extended analysis on two trials exposing fundamental problems with their respective prosecutions. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke break down the Kouri Richins case in Utah and the Colin Gray trial Read more…
Christina Miller, Divorce Attorney, takes center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a Read more…
The Kouri Richins case is, at its core, a financial case. Prosecutors allege $4.5 million in debt. 200+ overdrafts. A mansion closing Eric allegedly didn’t know they couldn’t afford. If true, it’s financial coercive control Read more…
Anne Coates, Senior Manager at CMFG Live Insurance, takes the stand in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly Read more…
Guilty. All 29 counts. Second-degree murder. Colin Gray is now the third parent in American history convicted for a school shooting committed by their child—and the first to catch murder charges, not just manslaughter. A Read more…
Lashawnda Rodgers & Brian Frecklton, insurance & financial advisors, take center stage in the Kouri Richins trial. Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March Read more…
The prosecution’s motive case in the Kouri Richins murder trial just got its most detailed presentation yet — and it came from a forensic accountant armed with hundreds of thousands of documents. Day seven of Read more…
How does someone defend their alleged abuser for twenty-five years—then suddenly file a two hundred million dollar lawsuit? The Cascio family just accused Michael Jackson’s estate of child trafficking. But these siblings spent decades swearing Read more…