‘Damaging’ evidence revealed in Utah mom Kouri Richins case: Attorney | Dan Abrams Live

Recently unsealed search warrants reveal that authorities believe the late husband of Kouri Richins, the Utah mom of three accused of poisoning her husband Eric and writing a children’s book about grief, had his wife’s medication in his system in addition to fentanyl when he died. Greg Skordas, attorney and spokesperson for the family of Eric Richins, joins NewsNation host Dan Abrams to discuss the case.
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[@mbburke3780]

My 💔 breaks for these kids.

[@Lu-LadyBug]

Divorce or life in prison? Money, money money. She'll get what she deserves.

[@islandthrifts809]

She was under prenup. Couldn’t get the money with a divorce. I feel horrible for him, bc he was married previously and the woman tried to drain him financially. That’s why his family made Corey sign the prenup.

[@lindajohnson.]

Divorce, why ruin so many lives with her stupidity? He was foolish to stay with her. 😢

[@jak3589]

The kids will suffer most. Shameful.

[@broeheemed32]

Incorrect. Eric Richins suffered the most..... he's DEAD. Don't try to minimize that.

[@jak3589]

@@broeheemed32 who are you to try and tell me what to do? I certainly can have my own thoughts on this matter.

[@broeheemed32]

@@jak3589 .....and I can criticize them if I find them worthy. Your opinion is not more valuable that those of anyone else.

[@jak3589]

I@broeheemed32 thats right you can. I never claimed my opinion is better than others, thats an accusation on your part. I made a very short comment that is all. Go away troll. I draw the line when you tell me what to do, which you can't . You have no power over that.

[@broeheemed32]

@@jak3589 - "Troll": The default insult when an uneducated woman has no valid point. I would suggest that if people's replies to your comments are so upsetting to you, you might refrain altogether. Nighty night.

[@joanrankin2827]

What a shame for those kids that she deprived them of their dad.

[@LStottmann]

And their mom, now! Crazy.

[@saireygamp62]

And soon their mother, she will not likely walk on this

[@Uncaged_cricket]

Evil. I hope they get the children away from her family.

[@jeanakatherine9369]

I thought his family had the boys

[@Lunchladydoyle]

They are with his family

[@BlondeGranny70]

The husband knew she was trying to kill him, but he stayed for his sons. Sad 😢

[@dakalodk]

No he was just naive .

[@broeheemed32]

@@dakalodk - He knew if he left, she would have made claim that he "abandoned" the children, got 100% custody, and thousands a month in child extortion payments, and filed for a Magic Restraining Order to keep him from his kids permanently. He was between a rock and a hard place. I'm sure he might have thought that she'd harm his children if he left, so essentially he laid down his life for his children.

[@ErinAbou]

I am sure Kouri told her friends a lot of garbage about her husband and his family.

[@broeheemed32]

That's "Poor Victim Woman 101": Always accuse your husband/boyfriend/ex of "abuse", then follow it up with "You can't just leave!! You don't understand!". Then cry.

[@aishamccraw7699]

The nerve of these people who can commit murder and truly believe they can fool the system is staggering.

[@claymac7895]

The fact that she's paying her high priced attorney with the money she stole from her murder victim just seems very wrong.

[@Lindakay59]

Shame on her!

[@jennyvinyl85]

She's a monster

[@hadeees]

Guess she never learned how to permanently delete an iphone

[@vero4-d5x]

What a witch!! To prison forever! Evil

[@AlexaCBrown]

Prayers for His Children, and true Loved Ones, Of His🙏🙏🙏

[@BigB932]

How considerate to pray. You've helped so much

[@AlexaCBrown]

@@BigB932 Indeed, I have...🙏🙏🙏

[@leynapreston3125]

She’s evil

[@tishwitch]

Seroquel is also used as a sleep aid... but sleeping pills + Fen? That's a lethal cocktail.

[@pnwlady]

It was an anti psychotic quetiapine.

[@5thdimension625]

@@pnwladyit is an antipsychotic but it causes sedation.

[@tishwitch]

@@pnwlady quetiapine is Seroquel, and it is used to treat many symptoms and psychological conditions. I'm not really sure why you're arguing with science but alright. We don't know what it was prescribed for yet, it could be lots of issues, that's why I added info about other possibilities like Insomnia. It doesn't really matter why it got prescribed, it matters that it was used with Fen to kill him.

[@pnwlady]

@@tishwitch I thought people misheard. Made up drug names can sounds similar to other made up drug names. I’m not questioning science.

[@tishwitch]

@@pnwlady you realize every word in evert language is essentially "made up" but that doesn't mean that we ignore medical standards. No one invented a word today - the generic drug is Quetiapine, it's sold under the brand Seroquel. That's common knowledge even if you just Google it and didn't achieve a post secondary in psych. Cheers

[@TaharkahX]

She couldn't find a children's book on grief? There are hundreds!

[@GabbyJackson-nc4gn]

I hope she doesn’t see the light of day again 🤦🏾‍♀️ it’s so horrific to hear the actual amount of drugs in his system.

[@ashleypearson3846]

Monsters come in all packages. They usually wear a good mask.

[@ebayauxions]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Scooby Doo philosophy :)

[@badmanskill1112]

​@@ebayauxionsHi Scooby! 👋

[@shards0fwords]

@@ebayauxionslol

[@Plantbliss]

ZOINKS!

[@johnnykeener3727]

"You know"

[@Quantum_GirlE]

That script is the generic for Seroquel. It's used more often for sleep. It depends on the dose, for which diagnosis it's prescribed for

[@vaneast411]

She’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer

[@Neddsaidd]

Her trying to rationalize dad being here just in a different way… while she monopolizes on that death. Jesus lord the evidence of her criminality is shocking. That q med is a nasty one too… I am blown away.

[@stephanieallangarman5598]

Wow..NARCISSISTIC PSYCHOPATH strikes AGAIN?? 🤷🏻‍♀️😳 The murderer wrote a book 📖 on helping children handle grief. 🙇🏻‍♀️ The children are who I sympathize with about this horrific crime. 🤔🇺🇸

[@natalie9884]

Finally, women being held accountable and less men suffering in silence.

[@greenman6141]

Liars always lie "So you wrote this book with your children" "That's right" She PAID someone else to write it. She paid someone else to do the illustrations. Then she self published it. Nothing like trying to squeeze every penny out of your murder.

[@josesoto7480]

Not her wearing no Ring talking about grief

[@kimberlyfamoly1963]

I just don't understand why he stayed and why did he consume anything in that house if he was so worried.

[@gmamose9152]

Such a weird case. She watched the struggle her kids went thru learning to cope with a parent that put the kids in that position. And if he thought she had tried to poison him, why was he eating/drinking the stuff she gave him? And I realize she's trying to look/act innocent, but seriously, her look to me is more like "oh sh*t. It wasn't supposed to go this way."

[@Sunset-chaser777]

“Nights are the hardest when dealing with anything” WTH? Counting the times she says “you know” in that interview shown: 8 or 9 Actually, I don’t know- I haven’t poisoned anyone!!

[@DarlinReal]

Hahaha.

[@moongoddess8568]

From the first time I saw that interview, I thought she acted odd. I guess I chalked it up to nerves.

[@leonardothefabulous3490]

Quetiapine (aka, "Seroquel") is also used to help people sleep...apparently the wife knew this and used it to help her husband sleep forever??? However, how did all of those drugs get into his body????? You ain't drinking such a "cocktail" and you are not injecting them....????

[@defense-debate4682]

It’s actually used to stop racing thoughts and anxieties the prevent one from being able to sleep and stay asleep with extended release that’s carries to the next day for daily relief of thoughts and anxieties, which makes a person groogy through the day… its common side affects are drowsiness, increased appetite, weight gain.. an etc.. it’s an ant psychotic to treat forms of depression.

[@jennifers2561]

I take it for my bipolar. I’ve never hit psychosis, I use it to sleep.

[@SpandexSuperstarr]

​@defense-debate4682 it's given at a lower dose as a sleep aid for people without mental illnesses.

[@leonardothefabulous3490]

It was prescribed for me to help me sleep. I didn't know about the drowsiness, increased appetite, weight gain-all of which I do (now) have. And, (not that it was intended to ) but it's not helping my depression. Thanks...Going to talk with my doctor...just remembered, an 'ol buddy did once mention the "appetite thing." Hummmm

[@defense-debate4682]

@@SpandexSuperstarr not usually… melatonin is usually preferred.. there are other prescribed sleep aids… seraquel is used to treat mental illness..

[@TheElleFactorAgain]

This is so pitiful. That man probably suffered during his last moments😢

[@julie-nw6ql]

Half a queitpine knocks me out , she trying to relax him a bit first 😁

[@defense-debate4682]

Quantapine is seraquel, she gave him a cocktail alright… fentynal n seraquel he sure wasn’t waking up.. seraquel (quantapine) Makes a person sleepy n is supposed to help them stay asleep for some hours.. aside from making a person hella hungry… she od’d him…

[@madisonbaxter9906]

This b is cray cray. Can you imagine having the audacity that she does?? Those poor kids and her husband :( and he stuck it out in the marriage for his boys too..

[@keith5730]

I feel for those poor kids how can this lady be so selfish

[@hjordan2322]

It’s also not true that dead people are just hanging out with us in another realm, next to us. Don’t be silly. Don’t tell your kids this. It’s not true.

[@Notmep]

How do you know for sure?

[@deborahfox8782]

The more and more information comes trickling out, who else as randomly at risk? Anyone with a price tag attached to their warm body could be at risk of being a victim. Sadly her boys could of been in walking danger. That is chilling and very scary 😔 It’s a relief to know she is not in possession of her sons. How confused they must be 😔

[@broeheemed32]

That she even had a prescription for Quetiapine/Seroquel is disturbing. She should have been nowhere near his children.

[@alicockburn5092]

Evil personified!

[@massango_official]

I‘m pretty sure she will write a another book about how she‘s has been wrongly accused‘😂😂

[@Piat65]

Or how she surviving in her new gated community

[@ddt67]

That part in her hair is a crime

[@tnkn969]

Luxury prisons😂😂

[@Queens4life365]

What the hell so how did she cop the Fentanyl like was she a junky did she know some junkies I have soooo many questions

[@MS-zh6yf]

She bought a bunch of it from some chick that supposedly worked for her mom. Wrote a check to her for a giant bag of pills.

[@JudyTullos]

And the woman that sold it went to police. She wanted nothing to do with Kouri, or the investigation to discover where she bought the fentanyl. Kouri even told her she wanted the “Michael Jackson stuff”, and wanted more.

[@AlllegroPresto]

If those aren't the most dead and empty eyes I've ever seen

[@rezarectmusic9691]

0:39 ... that smile was EVOL AF!!

[@shannonslutzky4754]

Even if he used her seroquel as a sleep aid, he wouldn’t follow it up with some fentanyl. Esp if she’s going to use the story that he was a user, that wouldn’t make any kind of sense. Wonder how she will explain this.

[@scottynails]

He could have used fenny earlier in the day. It would still be in his system when he took the other medication.

[@roriemcfadden6097]

​@@scottynailsBut not still in his stomach as the guest speaker stated was found.

[@rfcbass6810]

"I just watched the struggle my children were going through" That should be shown at her sentencing.

[@niania7022]

How many times are they going to play that video?

[@LStottmann]

I bet those interviewers today can’t believe it.

[@amydoran9987]

She’s a depraved liar. I hope they lock her up for a very long time. I feel bad for her kids, who are innocent in the whole situation.The evidence all points to her.

[@carina-jaipaul1342]

Quietapine is also used for insomnia…

[@suzanne296]

😔 shes belongs serving a life sentence

[@NaturingIFindNatural-august73]

🕯🥺 #neverforgetmyname #truthseekersunite #justice #WHY vile disgusting disturbing 🤔 ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

[@marymary20]

Completely petty, but….who wears a coat on a television interview on set?

[@AdventuresWithArlo1]

I said the same then thought she's using as a "shield" because her conscience was getting to her.

[@LorrieB330]

The same person that parts their hair like that.

[@dogoshin9337]

it is also used as a sleep aid for clinical insomnia

[@kinorspielmann4649]

How dumb to leave those Google searches to be found.

[@off.grider]

Huh typical!!!!!!

[@TwillowAddict]

She’s such a piece of work 🙄

[@randymorgan8375]

Kouri, Mother husband died of and overdose too. And she received a Large Insurance Payout.. And now Kouri, husband of an overdose as well !! He has lots of life insurance on his back.. Could that be a coincidence?

[@natalie9884]

She couldn’t be more fake

[@omo97911]

Modern women going from strength to strength.

[@pinksleaze]

I wonder if she’ll write a book about when your mommy kills your daddy and has to go to jail…

[@edwinacaparelli9911]

"he's here for birthdays and he's here for Christmas...."

[@celinescrappassion2184]

quetiapine can also be prescribed at low doses to help with sleep. It is not only prescribed for the conditions that were mentioned. That being said I am so happy she was caught...

[@Marsi-811]

I wonder if Wendi Adelson bought the book?

[@Notmep]

Utah and the money hungry & image obsessed culture!! Same in southern Utah in Jodi Hildebrant/Ruby Frank home for sale

[@dakalodk]

Yep

[@FourHuskyHomestead]

That doesn’t mean that he didn’t take it himself. Or that he didn’t use the fentanyl himself. Honestly.

[@sorormimm493]

There are receipts showing that he feared she was attempting to poison him on multiple occasions. Further, her search history is damning. He didn’t take it himself.

[@DeeAnderson-oj2hr]

The husband could have written his own book: Sleeping with the enemy

[@shawnadeyo]

Wow what a scumbag. The audacity of this monster to write a book about her poor children grieving their father and the only reason they have to go through that grief is because SHE MURDERED HIM!!!

[@usakiwi1986]

YA KNOW, YA KNOW, YA KNOW, OH WE KNOW KOURI

[@verucasalty5]

This woman is scary evil if the accusations are true. Those kid will suffer for her mistakes. Smh

[@AdgTee21]

When will criminals learn to stay away from Google for heaven’s sakes??!!! Have they never watched crime shows where the police look at ALL Google searches?? 😮

[@HUNKSTER99]

life is full of dank.

[@hotsauce1646]

And to think he loved her and she killed him for it

[@justkiddin84]

The thought that she claimed Seroquel was a sleep aid is ridiculous. It’s a pretty strong anti-psychotic.

[@biancamaclean4794]

It is used for insomnia by psychiatrists off label. It is a non typical anti psychotic used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. 😂

[@vj8406]

Stop taking friends and families meds! 🛑

[@missmustache4207]

Doesn’t it show she gave it to him because why would he consume that med if it doesn’t get you high?

[@scottynails]

Why is it far fetched that he used drugs willingly and he overdosed? I know plenty of people who you would never expect do drugs.

[@ringcreek]

quetiapine are also commonly subscribed as sleeping aid!

[@mrsdee47]

She reminds me so much of Meghan Markle

[@Harlembrown]

Why is this news? Outside of trying to provoke anger and the desire to spread gossip, why is this news? Honestly?!? Why? Yes. It's a tragedy. But how does anyone outside of the law enforcement authorities knowing the details make this new? Before anyone says it, I'm unsubscribing so I don't have to see this kind of thing anymore.

[@dakalodk]

Go away

[@FullaTeeth]

Was Khouri prescribed Seroquel? Did her delusions go away after her husband died?

[@pnwlady]

It was an anti psychotic quetiapine.

[@julielindsey6984]

@@pnwlady Yes, supposedly, tells you she crazy...

[@shaf60]

Scico Sid .

[@JohnDoe-u6c]

What is skordas talking about? She gave him her medication because it makes people sleepy? So that she could administer more fentanyl? And by administer, we mean give to him in a Moscow mule? What kind of logic is this? I don't know about you guys, but when I'm sleepy, there's less drinking about to go down then when I was wide awake. And, when I'm asleep, as far as I know, I'm not crushing any drinks. How much money are they paying you greg? Not the first time I've asked, you still haven't answered

[@TruCrimeQueen]

Do you really think he is monitoring this comment section? Weirdo!

[@steelhurricane4041]

She certainly does not look the type.

[@JK-lp6uw]

What does that "type" look like?

[@steelhurricane4041]

​@@JK-lp6uwI'm getting errors on commenting.

[@steelhurricane4041]

KR has a refined look. It's hard to imagine her with drug dealers and dumping a dangerous drug in her husband's drink.

[@elizalam5253]

Guilty until proven guilty.

[@sueess59]

This story bothers me. He knew the nutty wife was going to get him yet he didn’t leave… knowing that his 3 kids would be without 2 parents… why would he ever do that to them… he could have just left with them….