Aug. 6, 2025

"MOSCOW MULE MURDER: Killer Mom's Grief Book Grift & Montana Trial Terror"

"MOSCOW MULE MURDER: Killer Mom's Grief Book Grift & Montana Trial Terror"

Reid Carter exposes the twisted tale of Kouri Richins, the Utah mom who allegedly poisoned her husband Eric with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule, then wrote a children's grief book while planning to profit from his $5 million estate. With $3 million in debt and a secret lover, she allegedly tried to kill him on Valentine's Day first, then succeeded two weeks later. Plus, the Jordan Palmer murder trial in Montana where jurors are so intimidated by the victim's family they want secure parking, and a bungled investigation that might derail the entire case. Google searches, poison cocktails, and justice delayed.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome

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to celebrity trials. You know what takes a special kind

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of evil Killing your husband with fentanyl then writing a

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children's book about grief to profit off his death. That's

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exactly what prosecutors say Corey Richins did, and her trial

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is finally set for February twenty twenty six. Today we're

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diving deep into this twisted tale of poison prophet and

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a mother who allegedly turned murder into a marketing opportunity.

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But first, a quick update on yesterday's Tennessee terror. Austin

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Drummond is finally in custody. Remember Austin Robert Drummond, the

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monster we told you about yesterday who allegedly murdered four

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family members but left baby Westland alive on a stranger's lawn. Well,

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justice moved fast on this one. Jackson, Tennessee police arrested

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Drummond on Tuesday after residents reported seeing him in their

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neighborhood carrying a rifle. Police warned everyone to stay inside,

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and shortly after they had him in custody. No dramatic shootout,

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no suicide by cop, just handcuffs and a jail cell

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where he belongs. This piece of garbage is facing four

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counts of first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and weapons charges.

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His two buddies, Tanaka Brown and Giovante Thomas, are already

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locked up for helping him after the murders. Good riddance. Now,

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let's talk about a killer who's been waiting two years

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for her day in court, the Moscow mule murderer. Coury

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Richins had it all figured out, or at least she

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thought she did kill your husband with a fentanyl laced

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moscow mule, Collect the life insurance, pay off your three

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million dollars in debt, and ride off into the sunset

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with your side piece. Oh and right, O children's book

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about grief to make yourself look like the sympathetic widow. Folks,

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I've covered a lot of cases, but the audacity of

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this woman takes my breath away. Let me paint you

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the picture of what prosecutors say really happened in that

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house in commas Utah. Back in March twenty twenty two,

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Eric Richins was a successful stonemason worth about five million dollars.

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Corey was a real estate agent, drowning in debt from

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her house flipping business. She owed over three point one

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million dollars, had exhausted her bank accounts, and was spiraling

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toward total financial collapse, according to prosecutors, but Eric had

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made a fatal mistake. He'd signed a prenup that said

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if he died while they were married, everything would go

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to Coury, and that, prosecutor say, is when Coury decided

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her husband was worth more dead than alive. Here's the

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timeline of premeditated evil. In January twenty twenty two, Coory

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starts asking around for drugs. First, she hits up her housekeeper,

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Carmen Lauber, asking for pain meds for an investor with

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a back injury. She pays nine hundred dollars for some hydrocodone,

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but that's not strong enough, so on February eleventh, she

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goes back to the housekeeper asking for some of the

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Michael Jackson stuff. That's right, she literally asked for the

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drug that killed Michael Jackson. The housekeeper gives her fifteen

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to twenty fentanyl pills for another nine hundred dollars. Three

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days later, on Valentine's Day, Corey makes her first attempt

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She buys her husband his favorite sandwich, spikes it with fentanyl,

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leaves it in his truck with a love note, then

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goes to spend the day with her boyfriend. Eric takes

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one bite and breaks out in hives. Can't Breathe has

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to use his son's EpiPen and downs a bottle of benadrille.

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He tells a friend, I think my wife tried to

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poison me. But here's where Corey shows her true evil genius.

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She learns from her mistake. As Prosecutor Brad Bludworth put it,

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she learns the one bite in the sandwich isn't enough.

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It has to be administered at once, and it has

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to be a lot. So she goes back to the

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housekeeper on February twenty sixth for another nine hundred dollars

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worth of fentanyl. But that's not all. Prosecutors now say

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she was also asking a handyman working on her properties

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for both fentanyl and propofol. This woman was shopping for

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murder weapons like they were on Amazon Prime. On March third,

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twenty twenty two, Courriy and Eric are supposedly celebrating the

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closing of a house deal. She makes him a moscow

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mule in the kitchen and brings it to their bedroom.

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But this wasn't just any moscow mule. Prosecutors say she

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mixed it as a lemon shot so Eric would throw

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it back all at once. By three twenty two am

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on March fourth, Eric Richins was dead five times the

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lethal dose of fentanyl in his system twenty thousand nanograms

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per milli leader still in his stomach. And get this,

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Coury closed on that mansion property the next day. Her

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husband's not even cold, and she's signing real estate deals.

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The grief grifter. But wait, it gets worse, because killing

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your husband is apparently just step one in Corey's master plan.

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Step two become a sympathetic public figure. One year later,

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in March twenty twenty three, Coory self publishes a children's

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book called Are You with Me? It's about a father

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with angel wings watching over his son after death. She

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goes on local TV promoting it, talking about helping children

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process grief. The woman who allegedly murdered her husband with

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fentanyl is on morning television teaching people about coping with loss.

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The absolute narcissism is staggering, and her google searches. Oh,

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they tell a story. Prosecutors found searches for if someone

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is poisoned, what does it go down on the death certificate?

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As how long does life insurance companies take to pay?

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What is a lethal dose of fentanyl? Luxury prisons for

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the rich in America? Can cops force you to do

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a lie detector test? She even searched death certificate says

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pending will life insurance still pay? This isn't a grieving widow.

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This is a killer checking to make sure her payday

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is coming. Let's talk about the money, because that's what

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this is really about. Coory wasn't just in debt. She

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was in a financial death spiral of her own making.

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In twenty nineteen, she discovered an abandoned twenty thousand square

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foot mansion in Haber City, near Park City prime real estate.

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She and some investors made an offer for three point

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nine million dollars. Her mother says if they could flip

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it successfully, they stood to make twelve million dollars, but

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Eric didn't want her to buy it. His family says

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they were arguing about it constantly. Corey didn't care. She

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was determined to make this deal happen, and she needed money,

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lots of it, So what does she do? She starts

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stealing from her husband, opens a two hundred and fifty

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thousand dollars line of credit on his house without his knowledge,

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forging his signature, takes one hundred thousand dollars from his

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bank accounts, borrows thirty thousand dollars on his credit cards

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using fraudulent power of attorney. When Eric discovers this in

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twenty twenty, he's had enough. He consults divorce lawyers and

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estate planning attorneys. He changes his will, creates the Eric

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Richms Living Trust, and puts his sister in charge of

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his estate for the benefit of his kids. He changes

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his life insurance beneficiary from Coury to his business partner.

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Corey's golden goose is about to fly away, and she

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knows it. In January twenty twenty two, she tries to

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change the beneficiary on Eric's two million dollar life insurance

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policy to herself without authorization. The insurance company catches it

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and reverses the change. She even tries to change Eric's

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business partner's policy to make herself the beneficial. The woman

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has no limits. By March twenty twenty two, she's desperate

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her house flipping business is hemorrhaging money two hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars in monthly debt against one hundred and

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seventy thousand dollars in revenue. She's trying to close on

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this mansion with two point nine million dollars in debt

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due in six months, and she has no way to

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pay it. That's when Eric's Moscow mule became his death warrant.

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Back in a moment, Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm

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read Carter, and we're exposing how Corey Richins allegedly turned

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her husband into a fentanyl casualty and herself into a

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grief influencer. So what's Corey's defense to all this overwhelming evidence?

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Get ready for this? She claims Eric must have taken

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a fentanyl laced gummy by accident. Right, the successful business

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man with no history of drug use just happened to

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eat a gummy with five times the lethal dose of

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fentanyl on the same night his wife needed him dead

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to close a real estate deal. Sure, Corey, but it

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gets even more ridiculous. Remember that Walk the Dog letter

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prosecutors found, where Corey was allegedly telling family members how

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to testify her lawyers claim it's part of a fictional novel.

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She's writing about a stay in a Mexican prison, a

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fictional novel while you're in jail for murder about Mexican prison.

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You can't make this stuff up. Oh and about her paramour,

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the guy she was texting, life is going to be different.

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I promise hang in there until Friday, right before Eric died.

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Her lawyers say she was talking about divorce, not murder, really,

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because she texted him the day after the Valentine's Day

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poisoning attempt saying if he could just go away, life

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would be so perfect. That doesn't sound like divorce. Talk

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to me, that sounds like someone who wants their husband

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gone permanently. Vents has also tried to get the case

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thrown out, claiming all the media coverage means she can't

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get a fair trial. They even wanted to move it

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to Salt Lake City. The judge said no. Nearly eighty

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percent of Summit County residents know about this case, but

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that's what happens when you allegedly murder your husband and

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then go on TV to promote your grief book. Justice delayed.

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Courriy Richens has been sitting in jail since May twenty

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twenty three, no bail, and she won't see a jury

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until February twenty twenty six. That's almost three years behind

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bars before her trial even starts. Her lawyers keep filing

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motions she wants bail so she can live with her

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brother in Salt Lake County. She claims she's taking college courses, history, art, parenting,

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even botany. She's enrolled in paralegal studies and an MBA program.

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She says her relationship with her three kids is being

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damaged because she can't talk to them. Crimea River. Those

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kids don't have a father because you allegedly poisoned him

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for money, and the charges keep piling up. Last month,

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prosecutors hit her with twenty six new financial crime charges

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mortgage fraud, money laundering, forgery, bad checks. Turns out she

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wasn't just poisoning her husband, she was also allegedly running

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a one woman financial crime spree. The trial is set

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for five weeks starting February twenty third, twenty twenty six.

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Prosecutors plan to show how she bought fentanyel from multiple sources,

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attempted murder on Valentine's Day, learned from her failure and

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then succeeded two weeks later. They'll show her Google searches,

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her text messages to her boyfriend, her desperate financial situation,

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and Corey, she'll sit there and claim it's all a misunderstanding,

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that Eric took drugs by accident, that she's being persecuted,

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that her grief book proves she's innocent. But here's what

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really gets me. This woman thought she was clever enough

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to get away with murder. She thought she could poison

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her husband, play the grieving widow, write a children's book,

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and walk away with millions. She thought she was smarter

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than everyone else. Well, Corey, you're about to learn what

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happens when you underestimate prosecutors, forensic science, and the basic

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decency of people who don't think murder is a financial

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planning strategy. Now let's head to Montana, where another murder

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trial is underway, and this one's got the jury so

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scared they want secure parking. Jordan Palmer is on trial

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for shooting his neighbor, Stephen Campbell seven times in April

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twenty twenty four. Palmer says it was self defense, the

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prosecution says it was murder, and the jury they're apparently

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terrified of the victim's family. Here's what happened. Palmer found

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some mail on the road and decided to be a

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good neighbor and liver to the right address. But when

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Stephen Campbell saw him approaching, Campbell accused Palmer of breaking

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into cars. Campbell was drunk, and I mean drunk. His

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blood alcohol was point three to zero one three times

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the legal limit. He also had ketamine and other drugs

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in his system. Palmer says Campbell threatened him and started swinging,

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so he shot him seven times in one point four

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to six seven seconds. Campbell died with a closed knife

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in his pocket that police didn't even bother to collect

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his evidence. But here's where this trial goes off the rails.

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Campbell's family has been showing up to court wearing Justice

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for Stephen t shirts, and the jury is freaking out.

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They told the judge they feel intimidated and wants secure

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parking because they're uncomfortable being around the family. Think about that,

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the jury is so scared of the victim's family that

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they might not be able to be fair. The judge

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is now questioning each juror individually to see if they

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can still be in part Marshall, if not mistrial. The

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judge has implemented security measures separate parking for jurors, deputies

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escorting them. Family members with car decals have to park

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with prosecutors. But the damage might already be done, and

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the investigation it was a mess. The lead detective admitted

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he'd never worked a homicide before. They didn't preserve the

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knife as evidence because it was closed. They lost photos

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of bullet holes in a software migration. The detective didn't

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even review the nine to one one call or Campbell's

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clothing before charging Palmer with deliberate homicide. Oh and that

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video everyone keeps talking about, the one that supposedly shows

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Palmer shooting Campbell without provocation. A defense expert says it's

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so compressed and corrupted you can't tell anything from it.

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Can't see if Campbell swung, can't see movement, can't see

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anything decisive. This case is a perfect storm of bad investigation,

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intimidated jurors, and questionable evidence. And somewhere in the middle

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is joy Ordan Palmer, who either murdered his neighbor over

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returned mail or defended himself against a drunk, aggressive man

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who attacked him. The jury still out literally, but if

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they can't get past their fear of Campbell's family, this

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whole trial might be over before it really begins. You

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know what connects today's cases People who thought they had

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it all figured out. Corey Richins thought she had the

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perfect murder plan, poison the husband, collect the insurance, write

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a grief book, live happily ever after with the boyfriend.

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She didn't count on forensic science, digital footprints, and prosecutors

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who know how to connect the dots. Jordan Palmer thought

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he was doing the right thing returning mail. He ended

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up shooting a man seven times and now faces life

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in prison. Whether it was self defense or murder seven

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bullets is hard to explain. Away and Stephen Campbell he

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thought he was confronting a car burglar. His point three

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zero one blood alcohol level and drug cocktail made him

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aggressive enough to start a fight that ended his life.

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Bad decisions, fatal consequences, and families destroyed. That's it for today.

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But remember this. If you're thinking about poisoning your spouse

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for money, don't. If you're thinking about confronting strangers while

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drunken high, don't, And if you're carrying a gun and

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someone swings at you. Maybe seven shots is six too many.

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I'm read Carter with celebrity trials. Don't poison your spouse,

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don't write grief books if you're the killer, and for

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God's sake, don't google what is a lethal dose of

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fentanyl on your personal phone. Justice isn't always fast, but

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Google search history is forever. See you tomorrow,