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Wendy Lewis, Kouri Richins' Attorney, delivers the Defense's closing arguments.

Kouri Richins stands accused of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022—allegedly to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most closely watched trials in Utah history. A children's book author. A grieving widow who wrote about "heaven" for kids while allegedly researching untraceable poisons. A husband who may have been killed in his own bed.

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The Murdaugh case didn't start with murder. It started with a century of believing the rules didn't apply.

From 1920 to 2006, three generations of Murdaughs served as solicitor in South Carolina's 14th Circuit. They controlled who faced prosecution. They built a machine that protected their own. And they raised Alex to believe he could get away with anything.

Part 1 of "The Name" explores the generational psychology behind the Murdaugh crimes. How families built on power and image produce people who believe consequences are for other people.

If you've felt trapped by family expectations — if you've carried weight you didn't ask for — you'll recognize something here.

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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 to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most closely watched trials in Utah history. A children's book author. A grieving widow who wrote about "heaven" for kids while allegedly researching untraceable poisons. A husband who may have been killed in his own bed.

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The Kouri Richins defense has rested. No testimony from Kouri. No alternate explanation for how five times the lethal dose of fentanyl ended up in her husband's body. The cross-examinations are done. The objections are logged. And now twelve jurors are sitting with everything they've seen and heard over three weeks of trial.

Defense attorney Bob Motta knows exactly what it looks like when a defense team decides their best move is to stop talking. He joins Tony Brueski alongside retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to pull apart the defense's strategy from the inside — what worked, what didn't, and what the decision not to call Kouri Richins as a witness tells us about how confident her own attorneys are in the case they built.

The prosecution spent nearly three weeks laying out motive, means, and a behavioral trail that allegedly started years before Eric Richins died. The defense spent their time trying to dismantle it piece by piece — targeting Carmen Lauber's immunity deal, the absence of physical drug evidence, and the gaps in the original investigation. Motta assesses whether that dismantling was enough. Dreeke breaks down what the jury has been absorbing on a level that has nothing to do with legal arguments.

Closing arguments are next. This is the last word before the jury decides.

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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 to collect on a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most closely watched trials in Utah history. A children's book author. A grieving widow who wrote about "heaven" for kids while allegedly researching untraceable poisons. A husband who may have been killed in his own bed.

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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 corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. She was booked into the Fayette County Detention Center on March 12th. Her arraignment is set for April 10, 2026. If convicted on all counts, she faces a maximum of 31 years.

The Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office determined that Infant Snelling was born alive on August 27, 2025. His cause of death was ruled asphyxia by undetermined means. Snelling's own statements to investigators — documented in the arrest affidavit — place her conscious in the room with the infant, aware he had moved and made a sound, before she wrapped him in a towel, later placed him in a black trash bag, and left the apartment.

In this episode, Tony Brueski examines the full scope of what investigators found: months of concealed pregnancy, deleted labor photos, private week-by-week pregnancy tracking on her phone, a national championship performance four months before the birth, and a pattern of behavior documented by multiple former classmates going back years. From the 4 a.m. group chat to the grand jury's decision to charge manslaughter, this is the complete picture — built entirely from court documents, affidavits, and official statements.

This is not a story about a moment of panic. The evidence doesn't support that. This is a story about someone who had a plan, executed it, and ran out of road.

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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 a $1.9 million life insurance policy she secretly increased just weeks before his death. What prosecutors describe as a calculated murder-for-profit scheme, the defense calls a tragic accident involving a man who, they claim, had a hidden drug problem.

This is gavel-to-gavel coverage of one of the most closely watched trials in Utah history. A children's book author. A grieving widow who wrote about "heaven" for kids while allegedly researching untraceable poisons. A husband who may have been killed in his own bed.

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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 in March 2022. She has pleaded not guilty. After three weeks of testimony, her defense team called zero witnesses. She never took the stand. And the question that followed the jury into deliberations is the same one this episode unpacks from the ground up.

Tony Brueski walks through every layer: the alleged financial motive built on a prenup trap and $4.5 million in debt, the housekeeper who testified she made four drug runs at Kouri's request, the Valentine's Day attempted poisoning that prosecutors say came first, the hundreds of deleted messages from the exact window of the alleged murder, the pre-arrest phone searches that formed a triangle around method, money, and cleanup — and the question Kouri allegedly asked her boyfriend two weeks after Eric died about what it feels like to kill someone.

Death by a thousand cuts. This is all of them.

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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.

Former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski for Part 2 of the listener Q&A, focused on what this jury will actually do with three weeks of testimony and how this verdict is likely to take shape.

Dreeke opens with deliberation psychology in a circumstantial case. No smoking gun. No confession. No direct forensic link. How do jurors move from reasonable inference to the legal standard of reasonable doubt? He maps the behavioral process of how people build and resist consensus — and what the specific contours of this case suggest about how that dynamic plays out.

The forensic accountant's testimony gets examined here too. Dry. Document-heavy. Dense with loan records, failed real estate deals, and accounts reportedly running red. That kind of evidence doesn't produce the visceral reaction of testimony about fentanyl and obituaries pinned to mirrors — but Dreeke explains why financial evidence often does more durable work in the jury room than emotional testimony ever will.

The defense left one thread specifically unresolved: a man who allegedly told investigators Eric sought to purchase fentanyl from another source — never followed up on. If jurors are aware of that, Dreeke explains what it does to the behavioral narrative they've been constructing.

And jury instructions — handed to jurors before closing arguments — represent the architecture of how a verdict actually gets constructed. Dreeke is clear-eyed about the behavioral gap between what those instructions require and what twelve people actually do when gut feeling and legal standard don't move in the same direction.

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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 hit its most consequential moment — and former FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to dig into what the prosecution actually built, what the defense failed to dismantle, and what twelve jurors are now sitting with in that room.

The "Walk the Dog" letter is the prosecution's most chilling document. Written while Richins was awaiting trial, she allegedly directed family members on what narrative to hand investigators. Dreeke examines what that coordinated deception effort — executed from a jail cell — reveals about someone's behavioral state and decision-making, and why it's extraordinarily difficult to walk back in a jury room.

Carmen Lauber's testimony was central to the prosecution's case, but it carried complications. Eric Richins' obituary was reportedly pinned to Lauber's mirror. And a detective allegedly told her she needed to deliver "details that ensure Kouri gets convicted." Dreeke examines how those two facts — one deeply personal, one deeply problematic — interact when jurors try to assess what she actually knew and when she knew it.

The investigation had documented gaps: cocktail mugs never tested for fentanyl residue, no warrant executed for a key family member's phone, and an uninvestigated report involving a man who allegedly told investigators Eric sought fentanyl from another source. None closed. The question is whether a jury carrying this much circumstantial weight will let those threads do the work the defense needed them to do.

One underreported detail: Eric's trust reportedly left his estate to his sister rather than Kouri. She allegedly learned this after his death. That addition to the financial motive picture darkens what prosecutors had already been building for weeks.

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