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Kouri Richins was convicted of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl and is heading to prison for life. It is one of the most documented, most debated poisoning cases in recent true crime history — and the conviction closes the legal chapter while leaving the human one wide open. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take on the post-verdict fallout. The immunity deals that let key witnesses walk free. The defense's misconduct claims that didn't move the jury. The grief book written and sold to families while Kouri allegedly concealed what she had done. The four years of sustained deception, and what it means that it ultimately wasn't enough. Robin applies the behavioral framework he built during a career recruiting spies and analyzing dangerous personalities to ask the question nobody wants to answer plainly: does Kouri Richins believe she did anything wrong? And what does the answer to that question tell us about who she actually is? A conviction ends a trial. It doesn't end the story.

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After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" About a father who becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Performed the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.

Prosecutors say she killed him.

This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's fatal flaw. The need to be seen. Even for murder.

Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this. In 2011, she wrote an essay called "How to Murder Your Husband." She discussed methods. She wrote: "If the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don't want to spend any time in jail."

Seven years later, she shot her husband Daniel twice.

The essay was excluded from trial — too old. But the jury convicted her anyway.

She bought a gun with traceable methods. Drove her own minivan to the crime scene. Published her murder methodology under her real name.

The narcissist can't stay invisible. They need credit for their cleverness.

Kouri wrote herself as the grieving mother helping children heal. Nancy wrote herself as the expert on spousal homicide. Both needed the spotlight. And it exposed them.

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The Kouri Richins trial put evidence, testimony, and legal arguments on the record. This conversation puts the psychology on the record — and that's the part that speaks to the widest audience.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to walk through the complete psychological arc of the Richins marriage — using documented patterns of narcissistic and borderline relationships as the lens. The love bombing that makes the beginning feel like fate. The coercive control that makes the middle feel inescapable. The dangerous calculus of the exit. And what recovery honestly demands from the people who make it out.

Listeners who have followed this case will find every unanswered question about the relationship itself addressed in full here.

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June 7, 2021: Alex Murdaugh finds his wife and son shot to death.

September 4, 2021: Alex is "shot" on a rural roadside.

The first was murder. The second was staged. Both stories fell apart.

Part 4 of "The Name" covers the collapse of Alex Murdaugh — the murders, the fake shooting, the investigation, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in under three hours.

The Snapchat video proved he was lying about being at Moselle. His own testimony sealed his fate.

This episode explores narcissistic collapse: what happens when a lifetime of avoiding consequences finally catches up.

Alex Murdaugh is serving two consecutive life sentences. He still maintains his innocence.

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In the Kouri Richins case, prosecutors allege that as Eric moved quietly toward the exit — consulting lawyers, adjusting finances — the situation escalated toward something irreversible. That pattern isn't unique to this case. It's documented, it's consistent, and it's something psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent decades studying.

Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the final phase of relationships with narcissistic and borderline partners — what triggers it, what the person losing control actually does, and what anyone in this situation needs to know before they make a move. She also talks about the children left inside these dynamics and what real recovery looks like for the partner who gets out.

This is the conversation that goes beyond the crime.

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A police officer is shot in her own home by a colleague. She survives. She says she was trying to kill herself. He says she tried to kill him. No cameras were rolling. Trial starts this week.

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case out of North Andover, Massachusetts is one of the most genuinely contested criminal trials of 2026 — and True Crime Today has everything you need to understand it before that jury comes back with a verdict.

Fitzsimmons, a North Andover officer, was served a restraining order by three of her own colleagues on June 30, 2025. The order had been obtained by her fiancé, North Andover firefighter Justin Aylaian, who alleged in a sworn affidavit that he feared she would harm their four-month-old son. What unfolded in her upstairs bedroom ended with Officer Patrick Noonan firing one shot that collapsed her lung, broke her ribs, and damaged her liver.

Noonan says she pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. Fitzsimmons says she pointed it at her own head.

There is no body camera footage to resolve it.

What makes this case demand serious attention: both versions are supported by documented evidence. Fitzsimmons had been involuntarily committed for postpartum depression three months earlier. The department took her guns — then cleared her and gave them back twelve days before the shooting. The grand jury heard the prosecution's full case and still refused to indict her on the top charge.

And three days after she was shot, surveillance cameras at her home allegedly captured her fiancé — the man whose affidavit started everything — walking through her front door while she was hospitalized. The DA declined to prosecute him. He's on the prosecution's witness list.

Trial begins March 23rd. This is the full story — both sides, all facts, no spin.

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The Kouri Richins case gave the public a front-row seat to financial manipulation, infidelity, and alleged murder. But the years leading up to all of it — the sustained, invisible dynamics inside that marriage — are the part of the story that resonates with the most people.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine what the middle years of a relationship with a narcissistic or borderline partner actually look like from the inside. Trauma bonding. Gaslighting. The systematic erosion of identity. Why someone who knows something is deeply wrong keeps staying, keeps functioning, keeps holding everything together.

This is the episode that explains what the courtroom evidence couldn't.

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The Kouri Richins murder case raised a question that goes far beyond the courtroom: what does the beginning of a relationship like this actually look like — and how does someone as grounded as Eric Richins not see it?

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to walk through the first phase of a relationship with someone who operates with narcissistic or borderline personality traits. The love bombing. The deliberate targeting. The performance of the early months that creates an attachment so deep it can survive almost anything that follows.

This conversation uses the Kouri Richins case as a framework to explore something millions of people are living through right now — without any idea what it actually is.

Shavaun Scott has spent over 30 years working with both victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence. She knows what this looks like from every angle.

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Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder in the death of her husband Eric Richins. Before her arrest, she appeared on a local morning show to promote a children's book about grief — a book she paid a ghostwriting service to write, presented publicly as her own, weeks after Eric's death.

Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke to examine that interview through the lens of what a jury has now decided. Shavaun Scott analyzes the psychology of performed grief — what it looks like, how it's constructed, and what Kouri's specific presentation reveals about how she was managing her public identity in the period between Eric's death and her arrest. Robin Dreeke brings the behavioral analysis — breaking down the language patterns, delivery choices, and signals in that interview that trained investigators read as indicators of deception and narrative control.

The book wasn't hers. The grief wasn't what it appeared. The interview was a move. This is what it looked like from the inside.

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Kouri Richins allegedly had a boyfriend while married to Eric. She texted Josh Grossman about marriage. She had a secret $250,000 HELOC. Prosecutors say she searched for fentanyl.

Two lives. The wife Eric knew. And the woman planning his death.

This is Part 3 of The Perfect Wife — examining the premeditated mind.

Melanie McGuire lived this pattern to its extreme. On April 28, 2004, she signed mortgage papers with husband Bill for their first house. He called friends afterward, excited about the future.

That night, prosecutors say she sedated him, shot him, and dismembered him. Three Kenneth Cole suitcases. The Chesapeake Bay.

Two days later — while still disposing of his body — she filed a restraining order against him. Built her alibi while his remains were in her car.

Her Google searches convicted her: "Undetectable poisons." "How to commit murder." "Fatal insulin doses." Not panic. Research.

If you've ever discovered a partner was living a secret life — found the texts, the accounts, the evidence of someone who never existed — you know the vertigo of that discovery.

Bill McGuire signed papers for a house he'd never see. His wife was already planning his death.

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