Why Did Kouri Richins Message an Admirer After Sentencing With a Winking Emoji?

Kouri Richins was just sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl. The jury convicted her in under three hours. Her three sons had therapists read their statements because they're too young to stand at the podium themselves. And after all of it, Kouri sent a message to an admirer that ended with a winking emoji and a promise: "They haven't seen anything yet."

Tony Brueski walks through what happened during the five-hour sentencing hearing and what Kouri's behavior revealed about the psychological profile the jury had already seen through. While therapists read her sons' words — describing locked rooms, a sibling bringing meals, animals dying from neglect, and a father they'll never get back — cameras caught Kouri scoffing and rolling her eyes. When her own family took the podium and called her innocent, the tears appeared instantly.

Kouri then spoke for forty minutes. She told her sons to "be like your dad" — the husband she was convicted of killing. She told them their memories of what happened in that house were "an absolute lie." She told them to ignore the people currently keeping them safe and to distrust the narrative around her conviction. She never acknowledged a single thing her children described.

Her youngest son is nine. His message to Judge Richard Mrazik was the shortest and the hardest to hear: "Once she is gone, I will feel happy." He was sentenced to life without parole on what would have been Eric Richins' forty-fourth birthday. And somewhere after the gavel fell, Kouri found an admirer to message with a wink.

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