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Kouri Richins Guilty: Eric Saw It Coming — So Did Bobby Curley. Neither One Survived It.
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- Mar 22, 2026
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Summary
Eric Richins told people after Valentine's Day 2022 that he believed his wife was trying to poison him. He had been violently ill. He said it out loud to people he trusted. Prosecutors say Kouri made him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl approximately a month later. He was dead by morning. Bobby Curley grabbed a nurse's arm in a hospital on September 22, 1991. Weak, barely able to hold himself upright, he said clearly: "Please help me. My wife is trying to kill me. She is not as she seems." His heart stopped the next morning. Joann had been adding thallium to his iced tea every day for nearly a year. Hair analysis later confirmed eleven months of poisoning — nine hundred times the lethal dose administered over time, methodically, while he lost his hair and his hands burned and doctors couldn't explain what was happening. Two days before Bobby died, Joann collected a $1.7 million settlement. She needed him dead first. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, both men are at the center of the coverage Eric's community has been following — because both cases document the same unbearable truth: knowing what is happening to you is not the same as being able to stop it. Tony Brueski also examines what Kouri did after Eric died. The children's book. The morning show appearances. The grieving widow performance on national television. That conduct gets examined alongside Nancy Crampton-Brophy — who published "How to Murder Your Husband" in 2011 under her real name, discussing methods and motives, then shot her husband Daniel in the chest seven years later. The essay was kept out of her trial. The jury convicted her anyway. The narcissist cannot stay invisible. The need to be seen as clever, as the author of the story, overrides every instinct toward…