Kouri Richins’ Best Friend Gave Her WHAT?!

Twenty-six felony charges. That’s what’s still pending against Kouri Richins in Summit County, Utah — separate from the murder conviction that already put her away for life. Five counts of mortgage fraud. Seven counts of money laundering. Forgery. Bad checks. Communications fraud. And a charge that says it was all one continuous pattern.

The murder case showed you how Eric Richins died. These charges show you who Kouri Richins was while he was alive. Prosecutors allege she used Eric’s power of attorney to secretly take out a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar line of credit on his premarital home. She allegedly funneled that money into a real estate company that was losing more every month than it earned in five. She allegedly forged his bank documents, wrote bad checks to herself, and borrowed from more than two dozen lenders while defaulting on most of them.

But it’s the friend that tells you the most about who this woman is. According to prosecutors, Kouri signed a rent-to-own agreement with her best friend, collected forty-five thousand dollars for a down payment, and used every cent to cover her company’s debts. The property already had more than four hundred thousand in loans against it. When the lender foreclosed, the friend’s family was thrown out of the house Kouri had promised them.

This episode breaks down every charge, follows the debt spiral from the first stolen dollar to the day Eric died owing nearly five million, and exposes the prenuptial clause that made his death the only scenario where Kouri could access what she needed — and the trust Eric secretly built to make sure she couldn’t.

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