Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - She's Finally in Prison For What She Did // The Kouri Richins Murder Story

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother of three and real estate agent, was convicted in March 2026 of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, by spiking his cocktail.

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Now, the woman's name is Corey, and Corey's around 29 when this story starts, and she's living in Utah. And I told you Corey's story a few years back, but since then, there have been some updates on it. Now, here's the thing about Corey. She's a real estate agent who's really into flipping houses. But, unfortunately, her business isn't doing too well. She's in quite a bit of debt, debt that her husband doesn't know about. yet and she's willing to do just about anything to get some money to pay that debt off. So one day she gets an idea. Why not just start stealing from her husband? Now her

husband is this guy, Eric, and Eric he owns a stonemasonry business and he's doing pretty well financially and he apparently doesn't share finances with his wife because you know she's terrible with money. I guess he's afraid she'll spend it all. So she starts stealing from him. She goes and she for his signature and takes out a $250,000 equity loan on the family home, which he is the sole owner of. Not only that, but she begins withdrawing large sums of money from his business and personal accounts. Corey also starts charging a bunch of things to his credit cards. So over the course of five to six years, all of this theft from her husband starts to add up to about half a million

And if it couldn't get any worse, in 2020, she starts cheating on Eric, with one of the handymen that she works with. But then, that same year, her entire scheme falls apart. Because while Eric isn't aware of his wife's cheating yet, he does finally discover that she's been stealing from him. And he is super pissed. So he goes and he confronts her about it. And she comes up with some bullshit. excuse and she promises to pay him back. But the damage is already done. Eric no longer trusts her. In fact, he contacts a divorce attorney, so it seems like he's considering divorcing her.

But for whatever reason, he doesn't actually go through with it. He stays. Probably because they have three kids together. Although, he does meet up with another attorney and they remove Corey as the beneficiary of his estate and he creates a trust and he puts his sister in charge. charge of it. And he does all of this without telling Corey. He doesn't want her getting any of his money. And about a year goes by. So it's now 2021. And still, nothing has improved for Corey. Her real estate and house flipping business is still failing. And by this point, she's put herself in millions of dollars in debt, buying up houses, trying to flip them and apparently failing at it. Not only that, but she's still cheating. In fact, by this point, she's become emotional.

invested in this guy that she's hooking up with. Like, she's thinking about making a future with this guy. And that is where things get complicated for her. I mean, she can't just leave Eric, because before they got married, they signed a pre-up. So if she divorces him, she would get no money from his business or any of the assets he has. However, if Eric happens to die while they're still married, she stands to gain a lot. His business, a big chunk of his business, a big chunk of estate and his other properties. So she starts thinking her best way out of this marriage is to murder Eric. And so at this point, it's 22. And before Corey attempts this murder, she decides that she wants to secure as much money for herself as possible. So she tries to change his life

insurance policy through his business. But that doesn't work. The insurance company catches it and the change is reversed. Corey also takes out multiple life insurance policies worth around $2 million on Eric. And so then the time comes, the time that she's going to try and execute this murder. And in order to pull this off, Corey is going to need some drugs. So she reaches out to her housekeeper, who we'll just call housekeeper. And Corey's like, you got any drugs? And housekeeper's like, yeah. So Corey tells her this whole bullshit story about how one of her investors has severe back pain and needs a strong pain killer, particularly fentanyl. And so Housekeeper believes her and agrees to get her some fentanyl pills.

Then Housekeeper contacts the supplier, gets the pills, and hands them over to Corey. So now Corey has what she needs. Three days later, it's Valentine's Day. And Corey knows this is the perfect day to make her move. So she makes a sandwich for Eric, and she laces it with some of that fentanyl that she got, and she gives it to him. And Eric takes a bite, and almost immediately, he's struggling to breathe. And he begins to break out in hives.

Now, luckily, he reacts fast. He grabs one of his son's epipens, and he injects himself. Then he drinks a bunch of Benadryl, and he eventually blacks out. Now, fortunately for him, he does survive this. But now he's super suspicious of Corey. I mean, she's been stealing from him. Like, is she now trying to poison him? In fact, he becomes so suspicious that he goes and he tells his close friends and family that if anything ever happens to him, Corey is definitely the one responsible.

Meanwhile, Corey, she's not given up on her plan. She is determined to make this happen. So she goes back to Housekeeper, and she asks for even more, stronger fentanyl pills. And once again, Housekeeper gets them for her. And with that, Corey tries again. So one night, she and Eric are at home, and they're celebrating some business win for Corey. I guess she finally flipped a house, and so I guess she's like, honey, let's have a drink to celebrate. And he agrees to do this with her. Then she makes him a Moscow mule, and she secretly laces it with about five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. And poor Eric has no idea this is going on, and he drinks it. And sometime in between then and the next morning, he'll... unfortunately, dies. And of course, Corey calls 911 and she pretends to be all distraught.

Later, medical examiners perform an autopsy, and they confirm that Eric did in fact die from a fentanyl overdose. And so at this point, police have no reason to believe otherwise. The guy probably took some drugs and accidentally died, so they think. So they closed the case. And so now it looks like Corey's plan has worked and it's time for her to enjoy the money. So she starts trying to claim the life insurance money from those policies that she took out on him. And she apparently gets $1.3 million of it. So now she can finally pay off some of that debt that she's in. And if all that isn't fucked up enough, Corey then decides to write and publish a children's book about how to deal with a loved one's death. And she calls it, Are You With Me? And she says that this is how to help.

helping both her and the kids cope with their father's passing, and this is actually her on TV promoting it. And so it's starting to look like maybe Corey is going to get away with this murder. It's something else here now. Something new. From, exclusively on Paramount Plus, it's the series Stephen King calls Scarious Hell. Everything here is impossible, but it's also real. Sci-fi vision calls it the best show streaming right now.

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And so, while they're in court over a property, dispute with Corey over Eric's estate, they hire a private investigator to look into financial issues related to this civil dispute. So this private investigator gets to work and he starts looking into everything. And eventually he discovers that Corey had bought fentanyl from her housekeeper right before Eric's death from fentanyl. He also uncovers her earlier insurance fraud attempts. And at the end of it all, he ends up turning all of this evidence over to the police. And so, bam, Corey is arrested. Here's her mugshot. And so later, she goes to trial, and she's found guilty, and she hasn't been sentenced yet, but she'll probably get life in prison.