# What Do Kouri Richins And Alex Murdaugh Tell Us About A Broken System?

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-05-22T23:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8906542
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In Utah, a woman convicted of poisoning her husband with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl stands at sentencing, promises her sons she'll overturn the conviction, and has already written from jail that the people who prosecuted her "picked the wrong one." In South Carolina, a disbarred attorney whose murder convictions were just thrown out by the Supreme Court responds by suing the court clerk who allegedly corrupted his jury — not for the money, but for the subpoena power to find out who else was involved. Eric Faddis breaks down both cases. On the Kouri Richins side, he evaluates every appellate lane — the alleged prosecutorial access to privileged jail calls, the witness recantation, the venue fight, the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence — and gives a blunt assessment of whether any of it has real teeth. He then shifts to what Kouri can still do from inside a Utah prison and the legal tools available to the people she's already threatening. On the Murdaugh side, he explains what a Section 1983 federal lawsuit actually accomplishes, why the gap between the state prosecutor declining to charge jury tampering and the Supreme Court ruling it happened matters, and how civil depositions running parallel to a death-penalty-eligible retrial could fundamentally reshape the criminal case. Two courtrooms. Two convicted defendants who refuse to stop. One former prosecutor who breaks down what's real, what's theater, and what the system still isn't doing. Footer Links: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillers…

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