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Podcast: The Case Against Kouri Richins
Episode: Kouri Richins: $7.5M Debt, $2,100 Daily to Payday Lenders, and the Tests Investigators Never Ran
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The prosecution's motive case is built in bank statements. Forensic accountant Brooke Karrington laid it out for the jury: by March 2022, Kouri Richins carried $7.5 million in debt. She was hemorrhaging $80,000 monthly in payments. Four payday lenders collected $2,100 from her every single day. Her business account was described under oath as "perpetually in the hole." In December 2021 alone, her accounts recorded 77 overdraft transactions.One day after Eric Richins died, she purchased a $2.9 million mansion in Midway. Listed it seven days later. It foreclosed. The $1.35 million from Eric's life insurance policies was entirely spent within three months. By September 2022...