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Kouri Richins Sent a Message After Her Conviction — It Ended With a Winking Emoji
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- May 14, 2026
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Summary
After a jury convicted her unanimously on every count — including the fatal poisoning of her husband Eric Richins — Kouri Richins sent a message from jail to an unidentified "admirer." She promised to expose the judge, the prosecutors, the investigation, and Eric's entire family. She said they "picked the wrong one." And she signed off with a winking emoji and a threat: "They haven't seen anything yet." That message, revealed in the prosecution's sentencing memo, tells you everything about the woman who stood in a Park City courtroom on Eric's forty-fourth birthday and delivered a forty-minute speech to three sons who no longer want to hear from her. Her boys had spoken first through their therapists. They described a household of fear — doors locked from the outside, animals dying around them, a mother who was absent or intoxicated. Each one asked the judge to keep Kouri behind bars. One said he felt safe for the first time since leaving her care. Kouri's response was to call their memories a lie, attack the family raising them, and tell her sons to "be like your dad" — the father she was convicted of killing. Judge Mrazik sentenced her to life without parole, calling her "simply too dangerous to ever be free." Tony Brueski walks through the narcissistic framework that powered Kouri's sentencing performance, from the eye rolls during her children's statements to the tears reserved exclusively for her own supporters — and what that winking emoji reveals about a woman who still believes she's the one being wronged. 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 Ins…