Kouri Richins owed $7.5 million. Her forensic accountant used one word: imploding. Two hundred thirty-six bounced checks. Fifteen failed renovation projects. A house-flipping business hemorrhaging cash. Eric was quietly meeting with divorce attorneys, removing Kouri from his will, cutting her from his life insurance, and building a trust she didn't know about to protect their three sons. Her prenup made murder the only exit that paid.

She secretly purchased $1.9 million in life insurance on Eric's life without his knowledge. She texted her housekeeper about "the Michael Jackson stuff." She was texting Robert Josh Grossmann about marriage while still married to Eric — asking if he'd marry her "tomorrow." Prosecutors laid out an alleged escalation: a poisoning attempt in Greece, a fentanyl-laced sandwich on Valentine's Day that left Eric gasping for air and reaching for his son's EpiPen, and a final dose in a cocktail two weeks later — five times lethal. Eric told friends he believed his wife was trying to end his life. He was right.

The criminal investigation stalled by fall 2022. Deputy Jayme Woody acknowledged it on the stand. But the Richins family had already hired Todd Gabler — a 34-year defense investigator who'd never worked the prosecution's side — on a civil matter. What Gabler found in the phone records made staying on the civil side impossible. He identified the woman prosecutors say sourced the fentanyl before law enforcement did. He searched the Richins home for days after police released the scene, documented everything with body cameras, and found things the initial search missed. Nearly 50 interviews. Multiple vehicles tracked. A body of evidence that broke open an investigation that had gone cold.

A jury convicted Kouri on every count in under three hours. The judge sentenced her to life without parole. This is the full story — from the financial implosion to the Moscow Mule — told for the first time with the investigator who was inside it before anyone was charged.

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Eric Richins' family made a phone call that changed this case. Todd Gabler had spent 34 years as a private investigator — every single case for the defense. He'd never crossed to the other side. The family hired him on a civil matter. What he found in the phone records made it impossible to stay there.

Kouri Richins was in constant contact with a housekeeper who had a criminal record and was failing drug tests in court — in the months before and after Eric died. Law enforcement hadn't pulled those records yet. Gabler flagged it and kept going. Nearly 50 interviews. Multiple vehicles tracked. A body of evidence that would eventually help crack open a criminal investigation that had stalled. This is the first time the man who was inside this case before anyone was charged has told the story from the beginning — the call, the records, the moment it became clear what direction the evidence was pointing.

That investigation led to a conviction. What came after the conviction is why this story isn't over. Before she was even sentenced, Kouri wrote a message that ended up in the prosecution's filing. She promised to expose everyone connected to the case. She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly wrote a letter from jail telling her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Her own thirteen-year-old told the court he's afraid she'll come for him.

Eric Faddis walks through what someone serving life without parole can still do from inside — mail, phone calls, proxies, people on the outside who believe she's innocent. He explains the legal tools available to wall her off and where the gaps still are. Kouri Richins is locked up forever. Her thirteen-year-old is still afraid. That gap between the sentence and the safety is the whole story.

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The jury needed under three hours. Guilty on all counts. Aggravated murder. Attempted aggravated murder. Forgery. Insurance fraud. Judge Mrazik sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without parole and said a person who commits those acts "is simply too dangerous to ever be free."

Behind that verdict was an investigation that started with a phone call about a civil matter and became the case that changed Todd Gabler's career. For over a year, Gabler worked independently — pulling the phone records that exposed Kouri's communication pattern with Carmen Lauber, conducting interviews law enforcement hadn't gotten to, tracking vehicles, searching the Richins home for days, and handing over evidence that helped transform a stalled case into an arrest. He did it as a career defense investigator who'd never once worked the prosecution's side — until this case made it impossible to stay neutral.

In this complete three-part interview, Gabler sits with Tony Brueski and walks through every stage. How it started. What the evidence revealed. What police missed. What the defense got wrong. What the family went through. And what happens to the investigator who carries a case like this on his back for over a year.

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Todd Gabler has closed a lot of case files in 34 years. Over a hundred homicide investigations. Testimony in more than a dozen murder trials. He knows what it feels like to finish the work and move on. But the Kouri Richins case wasn't like the others.

This was the investigation that put him on the prosecution's side of a courtroom for the first time in his career. The one where he showed up on a cane after neck fusion surgery and refused pain medication so he could think clearly on the stand. The one where he spent a year going through a dead man's phone, walking through his house, sitting across from people who watched his marriage disintegrate — and building the case that would ultimately send his wife to prison for life without parole.

In the final part of this three-part conversation, Gabler opens up to Tony Brueski about the personal toll. What the verdict felt like. Who Eric became to him. Whether crossing the courtroom for the first time changed how he views everything he's done on the defense side. And whether this is the file that stays open in his head long after the paperwork is done.

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Two hard drives. That's what Todd Gabler delivered to the Summit County Attorney's Office. One contained audio recordings, video footage, and photographs from over a year of independent investigation. The other held computer forensics, including a cloned copy of Eric Richins' phone. Taken together, those drives contained evidence that helped transform a stalled investigation into an arrest.

Gabler had spent that year doing what law enforcement hadn't completed — pulling billing records that exposed Kouri's communication pattern with Carmen Lauber, conducting dozens of interviews, tracking vehicles, and searching the Richins home for days after police released the scene. He documented everything with body-worn cameras. He didn't cut corners. And when the defense tried to discredit his work at trial, his documentation held up under cross-examination.

In Part 2 of this three-part interview, Gabler tells Tony what was on those hard drives, what the home search revealed, how he navigated the line between private investigation and criminal case building, and what Eric's family experienced during the months when the only person moving the case forward was someone without a badge.

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Kouri Richins' third most frequent phone contact in the months her husband died wasn't a friend, a colleague, or a family member. It was her housekeeper — a woman with a drug-related criminal history who was testing positive in drug court. Todd Gabler found that in the billing records before anyone with a badge did.

Then he pulled the phone records. Between January and May 2022, Kouri Richins was in near-constant communication with a woman named Carmen Lauber. Lauber was the family's housekeeper. She also had an extensive drug-related criminal history and was testing positive in drug court around the time Eric died. Gabler flagged it immediately and started investigating Lauber before the Sheriff's Office had identified her as relevant to the case.

From there, the scope of the investigation expanded in ways Gabler hadn't anticipated. Nearly 50 interviews. GPS tracking on multiple vehicles. An entire side of the family that wouldn't speak to him. And a growing body of evidence that was pulling a career defense investigator across the courtroom for the first time in his life. In Part 1 of this three-part sit-down, Gabler walks Tony through the beginning — how a civil assignment became the foundation of a criminal prosecution.

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Her thirteen-year-old told the court he's afraid she'll come for him if she ever gets out. That statement sits at the center of everything happening in the Kouri Richins case right now — because even with life without parole, the question of whether she's done isn't settled.

Before she was sentenced, Kouri wrote a message that prosecutors put in their filing. She promised to "expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation." She said, "They picked the wrong one." She said, "They haven't seen anything yet." She allegedly wrote a letter from jail telling her brother to testify falsely. She's accused of witness intimidation. Then she stood at the podium and told her boys "we're going to make this right" and "don't give up on me."

The jury convicted her in less than three hours. The defense called zero witnesses. The judge said she's "simply too dangerous to ever be free." Her children begged the court to keep her locked away forever.

Eric Faddis spent years as a felony prosecutor and walks through what a convicted murderer can actually do from inside — the mail, the phone calls, the people on the outside who believe she's innocent and will do things on her behalf. He explains the legal tools available to protect the Richins family and where the gaps still are.

On the appeal side, Kouri's defense asked for extra time to file for a new trial. Faddis examines every available lane — the alleged monitoring of attorney-client jail calls, the Crozier recantation, venue, and evidence sufficiency — and tells you which ones have real weight. The attorney-client issue is the one worth watching. The rest face steep odds.

Kouri Richins isn't getting out. But her son's fear tells you everything about whether the walls of a prison are enough to contain what she's allegedly willing to do from inside them.

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Kouri Richins told her sons to forgive. Prosecutors say she spent every day before that speech attacking the people around this case from inside her jail cell — and the sentencing memo has all of it.

A fake dating profile made for the lead detective and posted online. What prosecutors call false reports filed against the family raising her boys. Hired a lawyer to go after her sister-in-law. Federal firearms charges pursued against Eric's father — for removing his dead son's guns to keep them safe. A marijuana report on Eric's sister. Bar complaints against the prosecutors that went nowhere. According to the memo, not one of those actions had merit. Every one had a name attached to it. Prosecutors called her character "irredeemable." Then she stood in court and preached forgiveness.

Cameras caught her scoffing and rolling her eyes while her own sons' impact statements were read. Those boys described locked rooms, dead animals, and taking care of each other because nobody else would. When her family took the podium and called her innocent, the tears showed up instantly — reserved entirely for herself.

On what would have been Eric Richins' forty-fourth birthday, Judge Mrazik sentenced her to life without parole. Kouri spoke for forty minutes. She told her boys to "be like your dad" — the man she was convicted of killing. She told them their memories were "an absolute lie." She told them to stop trusting the people keeping them safe. She didn't acknowledge a single word her children said.

After the conviction, prosecutors obtained a message Kouri sent to an "admirer" that ended with a winking emoji and five words: "They haven't seen anything yet."

One of her sons is nine. His message was shorter. "Once she is gone, I will feel happy."

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