# Is Kouri Richins About To Get A Second Chance?!

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-07-28T02:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8932110
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Is Kouri Richins about to get a second chance? She was convicted of aggravated murder, sentenced to life without parole on her husband's birthday, and her own children asked the judge to never let her out. Now her lawyers have filed a fourteen-page motion arguing she was denied a fair trial — and the judge who convicted her has stepped aside. Tony Brueski goes through the motion's three claims: judge bias, excessive financial evidence, and cumulative error. The defense compares Kouri's case to Alex Murdaugh's overturned conviction. The episode explains why that comparison collapses — the Murdaugh ruling turned on jury tampering that doesn't exist in the Richins case. The episode also covers what the motion reveals about the pattern that has defined Kouri Richins since the night Eric died. A children's grief book published while she was free. A text to an admirer after the guilty verdict promising to "expose them all." And now a fourteen-page filing blaming the judge. Three moments across four years, same operating system. Inside: the full text of the admirer message from the sentencing memo, the courtroom footage of Kouri rolling her eyes while counselors read her sons' letters, her forty-five-minute sentencing speech telling her children to "be like your dad," the three GIFs accessed on her phone the morning Eric was found dead, and the twenty-six financial felonies still pending. Eric's sister told the court he believed Kouri was the most evil person he'd ever met — and he stayed in the marriage anyway to protect his boys. 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_confirm…

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