Brad Bloodworth, chief prosecutor for Summit County, serves up closing arguments 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…
Laken Snelling, 22, the former University of Kentucky STUNT team cheerleader from White Pine, Tennessee, was indicted by a Fayette County grand jury on March 10, 2026, on charges of first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a Read more…
Judge Richard Mrazik gives instructions to the jury 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…
No smoking gun. No confession. No eyewitness. Just 42 witnesses and a mountain of circumstantial evidence prosecutors say could only point one direction. Kouri Richins stands accused of fatally poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl Read more…
The evidence is in. The witnesses have testified. And now the Kouri Richins murder trial moves into its final act — closing arguments and the deliberation room where this verdict will be built or broken. Read more…
Three weeks of testimony. A letter written from jail. A witness whose testimony arrived pre-damaged. And then the defense sat down without calling a single person to the stand. The Kouri Richins murder trial just Read more…
Jake and Romy Reiner are done. Sources close to the family told TMZ directly: “Nick’s defense is Nick’s defense. They’re not involved.” The high-profile defense attorney they initially funded—Alan Jackson, known for winning the Karen Read more…
The Walk the Dog letter has been in headlines. But headlines don’t explain it. This Hidden Killers Week In Review takes the full six-page jailhouse letter written by Kouri Richins and breaks it down the Read more…
Two texts are going to define this case: “If he could just go away” and “If I die, Eric did it.” How does any defense attorney argue context around those? This Hidden Killers Week In Read more…
The suspect didn’t know there was a doorbell camera. They grabbed weeds from the yard to cover it on the spot. They carried a weapon in what FBI experts have publicly called an “unprofessional manner.” Read more…
Carmen Lauber came in meth-positive. Robert Crozier contradicted his own sworn affidavit. Both are immunity witnesses the prosecution is leaning on hard—and both changed their accounts under prosecutorial pressure. At what point does that dynamic Read more…
The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial tried something that doesn’t always work—putting the dead man on trial. They suggested Eric Richins had a history with drugs and that the fentanyl that killed him Read more…
Law enforcement has confirmed the DNA sample at the Nancy Guthrie scene is a mixture—meaning it may involve more than one person. That changes everything about who’s been keeping this secret for over a month. Read more…
The prosecution just laid bare Kouri Richins’ finances in open court. Bounced checks. Hard money loans stacking up. A real estate business a forensic accountant called “imploding.” By March 5, 2022—the day after Eric Richins Read more…
The Cascio family spent 25 years as Michael Jackson’s most vocal defenders. They attacked other accusers. They called themselves his “second family.” Frank Cascio declared on Oprah and in his memoir that Jackson’s love for Read more…
The Nancy Guthrie investigation has no arrest, no named suspect, no person of interest. But that hasn’t stopped the destruction. This Hidden Killers Week In Review brings together expert analysis on both the investigation’s progress Read more…
Ruby Franke was arrested. The performance ended. But for her six children — raised as content for years — the work was just beginning. Part 5 of “The Good Mother” examines what comes after escape. Read more…
Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis sits down with Tony Brueski for an extended Hidden Killers conversation that goes deeper into the Kouri Richins murder trial than anything you’ll hear in a standard Read more…
Lori Vallow still believes she’s chosen. In a 2025 Dateline interview, she maintained her innocence. She claimed Jesus showed her she’d be exonerated. She showed no remorse. Meanwhile, her surviving son Colby is trying to Read more…
Before the Kouri Richins jury ever decides whether she murdered her husband, they’ve already learned who she is. Phone searches for “fentanyl poisoning.” Deleted memes accessed minutes after first responders left — one saying “I’m Read more…
Forty days. No suspect. No arrest. Cadaver dogs stood down. The DNA has dead-ended twice. And the desert keeps its secrets. This isn’t pessimism — it’s the evidence. After forty days with no named suspect, Read more…
The evidentiary phase of the Kouri Richins murder trial is over. The defense rested Thursday without calling a single witness — and Kouri Richins used her only moment to address the court to confirm she Read more…
In the Kouri Richins murder trial, the prosecution’s drug supply chain runs through two witnesses — and both of them have immunity deals. Both of their stories shifted. One recanted on the stand. The other Read more…
When you don’t have much, do you blame the victim? That’s the question at the center of the Kouri Richins defense strategy — and it’s one that Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, Read more…
CPS visited the Franke home in 2020. They investigated. They closed the case. Three years later, Ruby’s children were found bound and starving in Jodi Hildebrandt’s house. Part 4 of “The Good Mother” examines what Read more…
The Kouri Richins trial has built a case fact by fact, witness by witness. But the behavioral picture underneath it — how someone allegedly operates this way for years across an entire social world, what Read more…
Melanie Gibb was the last person outside the family to see JJ Vallow alive. She was Lori’s best friend. She heard Chad Daybell’s zombie talk. She knew the children were missing. And when Lori asked Read more…
Nobody becomes who Kouri Richins allegedly is without a history that shaped them. And the five children she’s leaving behind are now at the beginning of their own. Tony Brueski examines the full arc of Read more…
Detective Jeff O’ Driscoll, Summit Co. Sheriff’s Dept., 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 Read more…
You’ve seen the headlines about the Walk the Dog letter. Now hear it actually explained. Six handwritten pages. Written from jail. Titled by Kouri Richins herself as a destruction instruction — take vague notes, then Read more…