Feb. 26, 2026

"GRIEF BOOK KILLER ON TRIAL, JOHNNY GAUDREAU & THE DRUNK DRIVER WHO WANTS TO WALK FREE"

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Transcript

Reid Carter breaks down days one and two of the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah — the children's book author accused of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow mule, then self-publishing a grief memoir for her kids. Plus: Sean Higgins — the man who mowed down NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew on their bikes the night before their sister's wedding — now wants the case tossed, claiming new testing shows his blood-alcohol was below the legal limit. And a quick update on the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping as the reward hits one million dollars.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Thursday, February

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twenty six, twenty twenty six, Park City, Utah, Ski Country,

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wealthy enclave, the kind of place where you flip two

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million dollar houses and drive a Mercedes and tell people

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life is good. Coori Ritchans, thirty five years old, is

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on trial for murdering her husband Eric. Prosecutors say she

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slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a

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Moscow mule and watched him die in his sleep. Then

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she wrote a children's book about it called it Are

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You with Me? Put Angel Wings on the Dad promoted

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it on local radio because apparently grief needs a platform.

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Days one and two of testimony rapped. This week. We

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have opening statements, bodycam footage the in laws, and EMT

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who says Eric was cold to the touch and flatlined,

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and a defense claiming he was a secret painkiller addict

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who may have gotten his own fentanyl in Mexico. We'll

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break down every bit of it. Also this week, Sean Higgins,

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the drunk driver who killed NHL star Johnny Godro and

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his brother Matthew on their bicycles the night before their

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sister's wedding. He already rejected a plea deal of thirty

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five years. Now his lawyers want the entire case thrown out,

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claiming new testing shows his blood alcohol was actually below

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the legal limit. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Team USA won Olympic

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gold in Milan, and on that ice with medals around

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their necks, Johnny Gudro's children were there, his jersey was there,

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his family was there. And a quick update on Nancy Guthrie.

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Savannah Guthrie's eighty four year old mother missing from her

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Arizona home for nearly four weeks. The reward just hit

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one million dollars. The family is running out of hope.

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I'm Red Carter today, a children's book killer on trial,

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a drunk driver trying to walk free, and a gold

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medal haunted by the dead. This is celebrity trials. Let

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me paint you the picture. March fourth, twenty twenty two. Hoytsville, Utah,

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a small community just outside Park City, one of the

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wealthiest ski towns in America. Coury and Eric Richans are celebrating.

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Coory just closed on a two million dollar house she's

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been flipping. They're having a drink together before bed. She

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makes him a moscow mule. He drinks it. They go

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to sleep. Around three in the morning, Corey goes to

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comfort one of their sons who's having night terrors. When

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she comes back to the bedroom, Eric is on his back, cold, heavy,

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not breathing. She calls nine one one. When the EMT arrives,

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Eric is on the floor at the foot of the bed.

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His body is straight, not angled the way EMT Margaret

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offer it normally finds patience. His skin is cold to

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the touch. She flatlines him. There is more blolood coming

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from his mouth than she expected to find. Eric Richins,

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thirty four years old, father of three, real estate developer,

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dead on the floor of his own home. Cause of

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death fentanyl, specifically five times the lethal dose of fentanyl

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in his bloodstream. Prosecutors say Corey put it there. Summit

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County Prosecutor Brad Bludworth opened Monday with a simple thesis.

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Curie Richins murdered her husband for money and a fresh start.

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She was four point five million dollars in debt. She

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wrongly believed Eric's estate was worth more than four million dollars.

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She had secretly taken out nearly two million dollars in

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life insurance policies on him without his knowledge. She was

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also having an affair Robert Josh Grossman. Bloodworth showed the

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jury text messages Cory texting Grossman about her dream leave Eric,

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get the millions in the divorce one day, marry her

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boyfriend instead. And then there's the search history, because Google

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never forgets luxury prisons for the rich America? Can cops

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force you to do a lie detector test? Not exactly

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the search history of a grieving widow. The prosecution's case

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has layers. This wasn't just one poisoning attempt. The month

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before Eric died Valentine's Day, Coury allegedly gave him a

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fentanyl laced sandwich. He broke out in hives and blacked out.

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That's the attempted criminal homicide charge she tried. Once he survived,

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she waited three weeks and tried again. The key witness

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connecting Corey to the drug is the family's housekeeper, Carmen Laubert.

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She claims she sold fentanyl to Corey on multiple occasions.

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Lauber is not charged. She was granted immunity to testify.

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The defense immediately went after her credibility in opening statements

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arguing Lauber didn't give Richan's fentanyl, that she's motivated to

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lie for legal protection. Here's the complication. Lauber's dealer has

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said he was in jail and detoxing when he told

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detectives he sold her fentanyl. He later gave a sworn

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affidavit saying he sold her only oxy conton. No fentanyl

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was found anywhere in the Richins home. The prosecution's drug

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chain has a crack in it. Defense attorney Catherine Nestor

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opened Monday by playing the nine one one call Coory sobbing,

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barely able to answer questions. Those were the sounds of

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a wife becoming a widow, Nestor told the jury, and

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then Nestor laid out an alternative theory. Eric Richins had

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lime disease and was addicted to prescription painkillers. He asked

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Coury to procure opioids for him a few weeks before

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he died. He took a trip to Mexico, and the

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defense suggests he may have obtained fentanyl there himself. Photos

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shown to the jury an empty pill bottle sitting on

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Eric's bedside table the night of his death, bags of

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gummies he used regularly. But here's what the defense couldn't

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explain away. Coury's own bodycam footage from that night. Summit

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County Sheriff's deputy Vincent and Guion, captured her on camera

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in pajamas, pacing, telling police her husband had no history

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of illicit drug use, zero none. My husband's active. He

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didn't just die in his sleep. This is insane. And

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Eric's sister, Katie Richins Benson, testified their mother was a

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drug and alcohol counselor had instilled in the family from

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childhood the dangers of drug use. Eric didn't have a

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secret fentanyl habit, his family says. So then there was

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what Corey's sister in law noticed when she arrived at

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the house that morning. Corey wasn't disheveled, wasn't undone by grief.

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Her hair was done up. She looked, in the words

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of testimony, well put together, not how most people look

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at three in the morning. After discovering their husband dead,

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Day two brought more forensic detail. Investigator Cameron Larsen from

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the Medical Examiner's Office found an empty bottle of Cock

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and Bull ginger beer in the trash. The ginger beer

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you us use to make a Moscow mule, exactly the

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drink Corey said she made for Eric that night. K

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nine officer David Pimentel searched the master bedroom and bathroom.

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Found three prescription drugs Naltrek's own, a drug used to

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curb opioid cravings, and an antibiotic. He did not find

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the THHC gummies. Corey told police Eric might have taken

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a trained drug. Detecting K nine found nothing illicit in

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that room. An emt Offert testified to something subtle but damning.

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She normally finds patients on the side of their bed

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when they've had a cardiac event. Eric was at the

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foot of the bed, flat straight, unusual as if placed

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there rather than fallen. Here's the full picture prosecutors are building.

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Corey Richins was drowning in debt. Her husband's money was

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the life raft she secretly insured him for nearly two

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million dollars. She was planning to leave him for another man.

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She tried to kill him on Valentine's Day, three weeks

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later she succeeded. Then, she wrote a children's book called

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Are You with Me? With an angel winged father watching

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over his son, and went on local TV to promote it.

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My prediction guilty. The financial motive is airtight. The search

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history is a gift to the prosecution. The bodycam footage

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catches her lying about Eric's drug history in real time.

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The housekeeper problem is real, but it's not fatal. Fentanyl

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in the system is fentanyl in the system, and it

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had to come from somewhere. The defense's best play is

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the housekeeper. If they can convince the jury that lawber

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is lying, that the drug supply chain is broken, that

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Eric may have obtained fentanyl himself without telling his wife.

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That's reasonable doubt. It's a long shot, but it's not nothing.

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Trial runs through March twenty sixth. More witnesses to come,

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including the housekeeper herself. Keep watching. Eric Rischans was thirty

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four years old, father of three boys, realists, state developer.

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He made his wife a drink to celebrate her success.

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She killed him with it. He should be raising those boys,

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He should be building his next project. He should be alive.

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Rest in peace, Eric, We'll be right back. On Sunday.

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America won gold in men's ice hockey for the first

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time since nineteen eighty, but the celebration belonged to a

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player who wasn't there, and this week the man who

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killed Johnny Gudreau wants to walk free. Welcome back to

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celebrity Trials. I'm Red Carter. I want to start with

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Sunday because before we talk about the legal maneuver that's

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trying to let a killer walk, we need to talk

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about what happened on the ice in Milan February twenty second,

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twenty twenty six, the Milano Santa Julia Ice Hockey Arena

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Team USA VERSUS Canada Men's Olympic gold medal game, the

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first time NHL players have competed in the Olympics since

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twenty fourteen. For the entire tournament, one jersey had been

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hanging in the American locker room, Number thirteen Godro on

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the back Johnny Gadro's jersey hung there before every game,

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teammates walking past it thinking about him, playing for him.

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Jack Hughes scored in overtime. Team USA won the gold

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two to one, and when they took their victory lap,

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Matthew Tikachuk held that number thirteen jersey above his head

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and skated around the ice. Players took turns carrying it.

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An empty jersey for a player who should have been there.

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Then Tikachuk asked if Johnny's children could come down from

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the stands. Dylan Larkin and Zach Warensky went up into

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the seating area. They brought down Johnny's daughter Noah and

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his son, Johnny Junior. The players held them posed with

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them for the team photo. Skated around the ice with them,

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a two year old boy and his sister standing where

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their father would have stood, wearing gold medals their father

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should have won. Here's what made it even more impossible

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to watch without falling apart. February twenty second is Johnny

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Junior's birthday, his second birthday, Meredith Godreau posted on Instagram.

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Two twenty two is baby Johnny's birthday, special date picked

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by his daddy due to travel at the time. Happy

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second birthday to our baby Johnny Boy. Couldn't think of

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a better way to spend your second birthday than a

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fun day tomorrow. His father chose that date, and on

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his son's second birthday, the entire United States hockey team

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put that child in a team photo in front of

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the world. Meredith Godro told reporters, we wished we were

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a part of it, so when we got the call

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to come out. It felt like maybe Johnny did make

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the team. Team captain Austin Matthews said he was with

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us in spirit the whole tournament. He's touched everybody on

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that ice, in attendance in Milan, Johnny's parents, Guy and Jane,

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his widow Meredith, his children, the whole family watching the

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gold medal that belonged to all of them. Johnny Gaudrou

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should have been on that team. He was a near

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certain selection. Played international hockey since twenty thirteen, competed in

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four World Championships, Universally regarded as one of the best

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American players of his generation. Two hundred forty three career goals,

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five hundred assists seven hundred sixty three games in the NHL,

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known as Johnny Hockey from his Boston College days where

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he won the twenty fourteen Hoby Baker Award, nine seasons

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with the Calgary Flames, a seven year, sixty eight million

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dollar deal with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He should have

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been in Milan instead. He was a jersey on a hook.

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Now the reason this case is back in the news

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this week and it's infuriating. August twenty ninth, twenty twenty four,

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Carney's Point, New Jersey. Johnny Godro thirty one years old

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and his brother Matthew twenty nine, are riding their bikes

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on a rural road near their childhood home the night

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before their sister Katy's wedding. They were supposed to be

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groomsmen the next morning. Shawn Higgins, forty three years old,

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a married father of two Iraq war veteran finance worker

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for an addiction treatment company, had been drinking since mid afternoon,

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by his own admission, five or six beers. He'd also

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been driving around for two hours, sometimes talking on his

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phone after an upsetting conversation with his mother. His wife

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had told prosecutors he'd been drinking regularly since working from home,

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had a history of, in her words, driving like a nut.

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A driver in front of Higgins told police he had

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been driving aggressively when she and another car slowed down

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and moved left to go around the Goudro brothers on

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their bikes. Higgins sped up, veered right hit them both.

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He indicated he didn't even see them, said the judge

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at the initial hearing. Blood alcohol test at the time

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point zero eight seven above New Jersey's legal limit of

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point zero eight, failed the field sobriety test, charged with

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two counts of death by auto, aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide,

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reckless driving evidence, tampering, and leaving the scene of an accident.

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January twenty twenty five, Higgins rejected a plea offer of

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thirty five years in prison pleaded not guilty to the

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full indictment. His defense attorneys called him a good person

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who made a horrible decision. Then the defense tried to

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argue the Gaudro brother's own drinking contributed to their deaths.

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A judge shut that down flat. The brothers were on

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bicycles on a road, they weren't operating vehicles. Whatever they

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drank is irrelevant. And now, this Tuesday, February twenty fourth,

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a virtual hearing in Salem County, Higgins's attorney, Richard Kleinberger

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the Third dropped a bombshell. New testing, he claims shows

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Higgins's blood alcohol level at the time of the crash

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was actually pointed zero seven to five below the legal limit. Therefore,

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Kleinberger argues the entire indictment should be called into question

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because the grand jury was given an incorrect BAC when

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they voted to charge him. Prosecutors said they wanted time

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to review the full motion before responding to the judges

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question about whether the case would be represented to the

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grand jury. Next hearing April fourteenth. Let me tell you

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what's happening here. This is a legal strategy, not an

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innocence claim. Even if you believe the point zero seven

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five number, and prosecutors don't, that doesn't mean Sean Higgins

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wasn't impaired. It doesn't mean he wasn't driving recklessly. He

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admitted to five or six beers. He had a history

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of road rage. He sped up when other drivers slowed

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down for cyclists. He failed a field sobriety test, he

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left the scene. Two people are dead. BAC is one

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element of the charge, but it's not the only one.

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Death by auto and New Jersey doesn't require a BAC

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above point zero eight. It requires reckless driving. He was reckless.

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That much is not in dispute. This motion to dismiss

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is a hail mary, a technical argument designed to create

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procedural confusion, slow things down, maybe force a representation to

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the grand jury. The defense is doing its job, but

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the facts don't change. Johnny Goudreau and his brother Matthew

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are dead. Their children don't have a father, Their wives

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are widows. Their sister got married without her brothers there

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to walk her down the aisle. Both Meredith Gaudro and

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Madeline Gadro were pregnant when their husbands died. Johnny's third child, Carter,

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was born in April twenty twenty five. He has never

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met his father. Sean Higgins sat at his hearing this

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week and cried. Yes, he cried. His defense team called

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him empathetic, a loving father, a good person who made

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a horrible decision. Johnny Godro made no decision that night.

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He was on a bike on a road with his brother,

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doing nothing wrong, and somewhere in the stands in Malone.

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His children wore gold medals and smiled for a team photo.

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Johnny Godro was thirty one years old, Matthew Godre was

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twenty nine. Loving brothers, devoted husbands. Fathers should be at

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their sister's first anniversary dinner this year, should be seeing

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their children take their first steps. This case goes back

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to court April fourteenth. We'll be watching rest in peace, Johnny,

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Rest in Peace, Matthew. Brief update on a case we've

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been following. Nancy Guthrie eighty four years old, mother of

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Today's show host Savannah Guthrie. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.

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On January thirty first, she was kidnapped from her home.

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Nearly four weeks later, she has not been found. This Tuesday,

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Savannah Guthrie posted on Instagram her family is now offering

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a one million dollar reward for information leading to her

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mother's recovery, and in the same breath, Savannah acknowledged what

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the family is beginning to fear. She may already be gone.

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She may already have gone home to the Lord that

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she loves and is dancing in heaven. Nancy Guthrie needs

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daily medication to survive four weeks without it. What investigators

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have drops of her blood on the front porch, surveillance

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video of a masked man outside her front door the

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night she vanished, DNA from a glove found near the home,

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but no match is yet. Over twenty thousand tips have

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come in, several hundred people are actively working the investigation, FBI,

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Pima County Sheriff's Office, other agencies, and still nothing. Someone

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out there knows something that can bring her home. Savannah

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Guthrie said one million dollars. If you have any information

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about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, contact the Pima County Sheriff's office.

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Her family is begging. They are running out of time.

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Nancy Guthrie is eighty four years old, a mother, a grandmother.

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She should be home. Will keep you updated. That's celebrity

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trials for Thursday, February twenty sixth, twenty twenty six. Corey

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Richins murder trial underway in Park City, Utah. Two days

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of testimony down. The housekeeper who says she sold the

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defendant fentanyl is still to come. The defense has a theory,

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but a long road. Trial runs through March twenty sixth.

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Sean Higgins trying to get the Gaudro case thrown out,

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claiming his blood alcohol was below the legal limit. Next

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hearing April fourteenth. Meanwhile, on Sunday in Milan, Johnny Gaudro's

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children stood on an Olympic gold medal ice with their

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father's teammates and Nancy Guthrie still missing. The reward is

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now one million dollars four weeks in counting. I'm reed,

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Carter tomorrow more from the Richins trial and whatever else breaks,

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