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Kouri Richins has entered the chat.

Ted Bauer
4 min readJun 12, 2023

Kouri Richins is a new true crime flavor of the month, because she’s:

  • White
  • Rich
  • Had three kids
  • Is attractive
  • Is now a murderer
  • The story has a hook

What’s the hook on this one, ye ask? Well, her husband died of “unexpected reasons” in March of 2022. About a year later, she released a children’s book about dealing with grief. She did some local media (Utah area) to promote said book. About 60 days after the book came out, so about 14 months from the death, she was arrested for the husband’s murder. It was apparently fentaynl poisoning. She had been texting an acquaintance identified as “C.L.” for “some of that Michael Jackson stuff.” Here’s an essential recap:

Her husband, Eric, was apparently worth $5.1 million on paper, seemingly largely because of real estate deals and family money. Kouri (the wife…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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