# What Made Kouri Richins Escalate From Valentine's Day To The Moscow Mule?

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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: 2026-06-06T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8912869
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The Valentine's Day attempt failed. Eric Richins survived — gasping for air, reaching for his son's EpiPen. He told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. And for seventeen days, Kouri Richins lived inside the same house, shared meals with the same children, and arrived at a second plan with five times the lethal dose. The psychological architecture behind that seventeen-day gap is the center of this breakdown. The gap between the image Kouri projected and the financial reality she was hiding — approximately $4.5 million in debt, a house-flipping business in freefall, a forensic accountant who would later use one word: imploding. The affair with Robert Josh Grossmann that functioned not as an escape but as a rehearsal for the life she intended to build after Eric was gone. Insurance policies taken out on Eric's life without his knowledge — manipulation that was caught and didn't produce a pause. It produced an acceleration. The moment Eric Richins stopped being a husband and became an obstacle — a math problem with a financial answer — is identifiable in the evidence. The escalation from Greece to Valentine's Day to the Moscow Mule follows a pattern forensic psychologists recognize: failed attempts don't produce reconsideration. They produce refinement. Then the fourteen months that followed. A children's book about grief. A television tour promoting it. A 911 call. A party the next day. Google searches for luxury prisons and insurance claim timelines. Every friend who testified at trial said they believed her. The psychology behind that deception isn't traditional lying. It's compartmentalization so complete that the person living inside the grieving-mother identity isn't pretending. She's relocated there. The room where she put fentanyl in a cocktai…

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