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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 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 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 October 2024.

Spencer is charged with second-degree murder for shooting Michael Fosler—a sixty-seven-year-old man who was facing forty-three felony charges including sexual assault, child pornography, and internet stalking. The alleged victim in those charges was Spencer's thirteen-year-old daughter.

On the night of the shooting, Spencer discovered his daughter missing from her bedroom. He found her in Fosler's truck at one in the morning—despite Fosler having court orders to stay away from minors and have no contact with the girl. Spencer forced the truck off the road, and after an altercation, shot Fosler fifteen times.

The trial was set for January 2026, but the Arkansas Supreme Court removed Judge Barbara Elmore from the case after she imposed restrictions the court deemed an abuse of discretion. It was the second time the high court reversed Elmore in this case.

Retired Judge Ralph Wilson has taken over. A new trial date will be set at the March 18 pretrial hearing.

The collision of timelines creates an unprecedented situation. Spencer faces Democrat Brian Mitchell Sr. in November's general election. If convicted before then, he can't serve. If acquitted, he's likely the next sheriff of a deep-red county. If the trial extends past the election, the county could have a sheriff-elect awaiting trial for murder.

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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 Puerto Vallarta, even retaliation for U.S. drug policy.

But the doorbell footage tells a different story.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to examine why people are drawn to elaborate conspiracy theories over simpler explanations — especially when the victim is famous.

FBI experts have called the suspect's behavior "amateurish." The person didn't know there was a camera. They grabbed weeds from the yard to cover it. They carried a weapon unprofessionally.

If this was a cartel operation, wouldn't we expect sophistication? A Border Patrol officer told reporters that cartels don't target people in the U.S. because it brings attention they don't want. Pima County says there's no indication Nancy was taken to Mexico.

Sheriff Nanos called it a "targeted kidnapping." But the footage shows someone who may have visited the home before yet still didn't understand the camera system. How do we reconcile what investigators say with what the evidence appears to show?

Multiple ransom notes have flooded media outlets — at least four to TMZ. One person has already been arrested for a fake demand. What drives strangers to exploit a family's nightmare?

Shavaun Scott specializes in understanding offenders who commit crimes that spiral out of control — situations where theft or burglary escalates into something far more serious. If this was a break-in gone wrong, what does the psychology look like for someone suddenly facing an injured victim and panic setting in?

This episode separates signal from noise in a case overwhelmed by speculation.

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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 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.

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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 child. The Colin Gray guilty verdict exposed a father who had every warning imaginable and chose to do nothing.

Colin Gray guilty was inevitable when you see what he ignored. The FBI warned Colin Gray in 2023 after Colt threatened a school shooting online. Seven months later, Colin Gray bought his son an AR-15 for Christmas. No gun safe. Rifle in the kid's bedroom. Shrine to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz on the wall—Colin Gray claimed he thought it was "the guy from Green Day."

Weeks before the massacre, Colt texted: "Whenever something happens just know the blood is on your hands." Colin Gray told himself it was about custody drama. The morning of September 4th, Colt sent goodbye texts. Colin Gray read them. Stayed at work. Didn't call the school. Four people died nineteen minutes later.

Colin Gray guilty came down to his own family's testimony. His daughter Jenni testified he asked her to "cover for him." His wife Marcee said she begged him to lock up the guns. Colin Gray took the stand, cried, and claimed he never saw it coming.

The jury saw through it. Colin Gray guilty—all counts—in under two hours.

Colin Gray guilty of murder changes the game. Crumbleys got manslaughter. Colin Gray guilty raised it to murder. The message to parents everywhere: accountability is real.

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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 Kouri wanted, and what she was willing to do to get it.

Robert Josh Grossman testified on the four-year anniversary of Eric Richins' death. He broke down on the stand reading private messages that included Kouri telling him: "If he could just go away and you could just be here. Life would be so perfect." And: "I can't expect you to sit around for the day the trigger gets pulled."

The texts prosecutors presented told a layered story — from Kouri asking Grossman in January 2022 if he had ever done drugs, to a February dream text where she imagined divorcing Eric and buying the Midway Mansion with Grossman, to the morning Eric died when their brunch plans fell apart and Kouri texted: "Eric passed away. Talk later."

But prosecutors also revealed something the jury hadn't yet seen about who Eric Richins really was behind closed doors. He secretly consulted a divorce attorney. He built a living trust naming his sister — not Kouri — as trustee over $7.6 million in assets. He told his estate attorney that Kouri had taken $250,000 of his money using his power of attorney. And he chose not to revoke it because, in his own words, she was the mother of his children.

Two weeks after Eric died, Kouri and Grossman drove into the Uinta Mountains. According to Grossman's testimony, Kouri asked him what it feels like to kill someone.

The defense moved for a mistrial. The judge asked for a written motion. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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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 prosecutors say her phone was active in the hours before that call. Eric's sister testified Kouri appeared "well put together" with her hair done when she arrived at the scene.

How do we understand someone who can allegedly orchestrate a death, then produce what sounds like genuine devastation?

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to examine whether performance can become belief — whether someone who causes an outcome can still feel grief about it, and how compartmentalization allows people to inhabit contradictory emotional states.

The broader pattern is striking: prosecutors say Kouri went on exotic vacations after Eric's death, appeared on television promoting a grief book, and presented herself as processing an "unexpected" tragedy. Meanwhile, they allege she'd been planning his death for weeks and had a boyfriend waiting.

Then there's the "Walk the Dog" letter from jail — prosecutors called it blatant witness tampering, alleging Kouri was instructing family members on how to testify. What does it tell us when someone facing murder charges continues trying to control the narrative?

When Kouri learned she'd been cut from Eric's will two days after his death, testimony says she punched his sister. Prosecutors say she was "enraged."

For someone operating from entitlement, what does that rage reveal? How does someone who allegedly just took a life respond with fury at being denied what they expected to receive from that death?

Shavaun Scott provides the clinical framework for understanding cognitive distortion when the disconnect from reality appears total.

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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 own real estate business and closed multi-million-dollar deals.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Hidden Killers to examine the psychology of financial exploitation when the "victim" narrative doesn't match the evidence. The forensic accounting shows money flowing one direction: from Eric to Kouri. Yet testimony suggests she framed herself as trapped by their prenuptial agreement.

That disconnect — between documented financial freedom and apparent perception of victimhood — is exactly what this episode unpacks.

The alleged escalation is striking: smaller transactions around 2015-2016, then a $250,000 home equity line prosecutors say was opened with a forged signature in 2019, then misdirected tax payments, credit cards maxed in Eric's name, and eventually alleged life insurance fraud.

Eric discovered the fraud in September 2020. Prosecutors say Kouri admitted it. Promised to pay it back. Allegedly never did. He talked to divorce attorneys but stayed.

What happens when a partner's decision to stay gets interpreted as permission to continue? How does accountability dissolve when consequences never arrive?

The forensic accountant painted a grim picture of Kouri's real estate business: $170,000 in revenue over five months while debt service exceeded $250,000. Prosecutors allege falsified bank statements, bad checks written to herself, and Eric's business letterhead used to secure loans.

Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology of entitlement, self-deception, and doubling down when everything is failing.

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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 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.

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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 inside the alleged Long Island Serial Killer's family. His ex-wife Asa Ellerup still calls him her "hero." Their daughter Victoria says he's "most likely" the Gilgo Beach serial killer.

Same house. Same twenty-seven years. Two completely different realities.

According to court documents, every Gilgo Beach murder Heuermann is charged with allegedly occurred when his family was out of town. But the connection runs deeper. Female hairs found on victims' remains along Ocean Parkway were allegedly consistent with DNA from Asa and Victoria. Neither is accused of involvement—Suffolk County prosecutors say the hair was transferred.

The women in the alleged LISK's life were allegedly linked to murder victims without knowing.

Asa's attorney has suggested trauma bonding. In the documentary, she called Rex her "savior" from a difficult first marriage. Said visiting him in jail felt like "a first date."

Victoria's path was different. She acknowledged places in the Massapequa Park house she wasn't allowed. Admitted her father missed family vacations during windows when murders allegedly occurred. By the documentary's release, she'd reached her conclusion about the Long Island murders.

The daughter saw. The wife cannot.

BTK's daughter Kerri Rawson offered support: "Asa and her kids are also victims."

The Gilgo Beach trial is September 2026. Part 3 of 5.

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