Pearl - ＂She Gives Me Sarah Stock Vibes＂ - THE TRADWIFE M＊RDERER

00:00:00.000 who she then punched in the neck and the face.

00:00:02.660 Oh my God.

00:00:04.480 And this woman gave me Sarah Stock energy. 1.00

00:00:08.120 So there's a woman in Utah

00:00:09.240 who was just convicted of killing her husband.

00:00:12.960 Okay.

00:00:13.420 And this woman put out a book 1.00

00:00:16.380 on how to deal with grief for children.

00:00:19.780 And I just thought,

00:00:20.680 lady, why are you drawing attention to this? 0.99

00:00:24.900 Do you know what I mean?

00:00:25.820 Like you could have just like,

00:00:26.940 oh, I'm so sad. 1.00

00:00:28.760 Shut up, shut up. 1.00

00:00:30.000 I just, I don't understand us as women. 1.00

00:00:32.480 Why do we draw so much attention?

00:00:34.380 And you guys can call in.

00:00:35.700 Why do, after, why do we draw so much attention

00:00:38.240 when we're trying to get away with something?

00:00:42.260 Like, don't you think two,

00:00:43.580 it's like we're saying two plus two equals four,

00:00:46.000 and we keep putting in five.

00:00:47.580 We, the jury, unanimously find that the defendant,

00:00:50.240 Corey Richens, is guilty of aggravated murder.

00:00:55.220 Guilty on all counts.

00:00:56.680 That's the fate of the Utah mother 1.00

00:00:58.060 now convicted of killing her husband.

00:01:00.480 Corey Richens poisoned her husband and then wrote a children's book about grief that became wildly popular before police zeroed in on her as a suspect.

00:01:07.760 Fox 31st, Talia Cunningham's been following the verdict that came down just a few hours ago. Talia.

00:01:11.920 Well, Jeremy, Christine, those guilty verdicts handed down by a unanimous jury just this evening after deliberating for less than three hours.

00:01:19.160 As you can see here, Corey Richens didn't show much emotion after the most serious charge.

00:01:24.060 Aggravated murder was read aloud. She took a deep couple breaths, bowed her head, and that was about it.

00:01:29.040 Eric Richens died back in March of 2022. He was found unresponsive at his home near City Park City, I should say.

00:01:36.400 Thank you for the super chat, Phil Wood. I appreciate it.

00:01:39.740 Prosecutors argued that his wife, Corey Richens, slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into his cocktail, killing him.

00:01:47.300 They also argued that Richens was $4.5 million in debt and thought if she killed her husband, she would inherit his estate that's worth more than $4 million.

00:01:55.540 Adding Richens was having an affair and planning a new future with her new man. 1.00

00:01:59.100 The 35-year-old mother was found guilty of fraudulently claiming insurance benefits after her husband's death, and it doesn't stop there.

00:02:06.480 Richens was also guilty of attempted murder in another alleged effort to poison her husband.

00:02:11.380 According to court documents, on Valentine's Day, shortly before he was murdered, Richens gave her husband a sandwich that was laced with fentanyl, which made him break out in hives and black out.

00:02:20.860 Body cam video was played after Richens called 911 and police arrived at the house.

00:02:25.540 Listen.

00:02:26.500 When you discovered him, was he on the bed?

00:02:28.620 Yes.

00:02:29.400 He was just laying on his side like normal.

00:02:32.420 I just thought he was cold.

00:02:34.920 It was cold in there, so I put the blanket on him.

00:02:39.420 After her husband's death, Corey Richens self-published a children's book about grief to help her sons and other kids cope with the loss of a parent.

00:02:46.500 it is called are you with me and it's about a father with angel wings watching over his young

00:02:51.540 son after passing away you can see here she appeared on local tv and radio stations promoting

00:02:56.220 your book but does maintain her innocence now these are some of the online searches that were

00:03:00.680 presented in court that include you can see the top and caps oh my god women are like we are just 1.00

00:03:06.980 the dumbest serious you know if women serial kill you know um if women serial kill we're just going 0.98

00:03:13.980 do it in the dumbest way possible can cops uncover deleted messages can deleted messages be retrieved 0.99

00:03:20.460 from an iphone that's so embarrassing one can cops uncover deleted messages iphone and how to 0.92

00:03:26.140 completely wipe an iphone clear remotely riches did not take the stand in her own murder trial 1.00

00:03:31.100 and a sentencing date has not been announced but the max for aggravated murder the highest charge

00:03:35.580 alone 25 years in studio ty cunningham fox 31. all right let's keep going all right there's an

00:03:42.620 article written about this a mom wrote a kid's book on grief she was just convicted of her

00:03:47.820 husband's murder a year after her husband's sudden death in 2022 utah mom of three corey richens

00:03:55.100 self-published a children's book about coping with grief called are you with me in promotional

00:04:01.660 interviews with local media richen said she had written the book with her kids the oldest of whom

00:04:06.140 was 10 and she told npr member station kpcw in april of 2023 that the process brought little

00:04:12.620 peace to me and my boys it was a good distraction from the last year and going through the first

00:04:17.900 holidays with my husband his birthday like her anniversary all these things and it gives us

00:04:22.700 something to work towards weeks later richens was charged with killing her husband eric and on

00:04:28.940 monday a jury in summit county utah convicted her of his murder prosecutors alleged that corey

00:04:35.420 rich and spike eric richard's cocktail with fentanyl in march 2022 and several earlier

00:04:42.380 attempts because she was millions of dollars in debt and believed she would inherit his estates 0.99

00:04:47.260 she did not know that eric had quietly cut her out of his will years earlier after discovering

00:04:51.580 that some of the debt had been racked up in his name oh my god prosecutors also said she had taken 0.99

00:04:58.140 out multiple life insurance policies on her husband while having the affair she wanted to 0.91

00:05:03.020 leave eric richens but she did not want to leave his money summit count county chief prosecutor

00:05:08.780 brad bloodworth said in his closing argument on monday corey richens had denied wrongdoing

00:05:14.380 and pleaded not guilty to five charges against her in this case she declined to testify during

00:05:20.620 the trial which lasted three weeks and featured testimony from 40 witnesses her defense attorney

00:05:26.620 wendy lewis and eric had lyme disease and was addicted to painkillers and called the investigation

00:05:32.700 into his death nothing but sloppy and driven by bias yeah because the yeah the justice system is

00:05:39.260 it's biased against women shut the okay after three hours of deliberation the jury found

00:05:45.880 riches aggregate riches guilty of aggregated murder aggregated murder punishable by 25 years

00:05:53.020 to life in prison and the other four and four other charges which include forgery and fraud

00:05:58.480 related to the opening of $2 million in life insurance policies for Eric without his knowledge.

00:06:04.160 She bowed her head as the verdict was read. Richens is scheduled to return to court for

00:06:09.400 sentencing May 13th, which would have been Eric's 44th birthday. That may not spell the end of

00:06:15.400 Richens' legal troubles. She is facing 26 other felony charges of alleged financial wrongdoing

00:06:21.300 in the years leading up to Eric's murder, including mortgage fraud, money laundering,

00:06:25.800 and issuing bad checks in a separate case that prosecutors filed last year she's also litigating

00:06:31.600 property issues with eric's family and civil court corey richens called 9-1-1 after 3 a.m and on

00:06:38.480 march 4th 2022 to report that she had found her husband eric unresponsive according to prosecutors

00:06:44.660 legal brief responders declared him dead at the scene their home in camas a mountain town about

00:06:52.040 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The medical examiner found five times the lethal level of

00:06:59.280 fentanyl in Eric's blood and ruled his death and overdose. The medical examiner also determined

00:07:04.940 that the drug was illicit and ingested orally. The only people home at the time were Richens

00:07:10.700 and their three other kids. According to her arrest warrant, Corey told investigators that

00:07:15.160 she had made Eric a Moscow mule the previous night to celebrate closing on a property for

00:07:20.400 her house flipping business. She said he drank the cocktail in bed and she went to sleep with

00:07:24.740 one of their kids who was having a nightmare only to return a few hours later to find her husband

00:07:28.720 cold to touch in bed. Law enforcement said they found holes in her story. For example, she told

00:07:33.800 them she had left her phone charging in the room while she went to comfort her son, but phone data

00:07:38.300 showed it had been opened and messages sent and deleted during that time. The prompt search of

00:07:43.480 the Richens' home and eventual seizure of Corey's electrical devices included a second iPhone

00:07:50.060 found in her bedside drawer. Prosecutors said it contained a slew of incriminating online searches,

00:07:55.620 including what's a lethal dose of fentanyl? Can cops uncover deleted messages? Women in Utah 1.00

00:08:02.880 prison, if someone is poisoned, what does it go down on the death certificate as? Death certificate

00:08:09.500 saying, says pending, will life insurance still pay and luxury prisons for the rich in America?

00:08:15.160 oh my gosh okay cory's other phone revealed a series of messages in which she asked someone

00:08:21.140 identified as cl for help and obtaining prescription pain medication for what she said

00:08:27.040 for an investor who has a back injury cl is the family's occasional housekeeper cameron luber who

00:08:32.980 testified at trial under immunity for her cooperation that she had provided illicit drugs

00:08:38.740 to Corey on four occasions between December 2021 and March 2022. The third time in early February

00:08:45.160 2022, prosecutor says Corey asked specifically for fentanyl. She said that her investor wanted

00:08:52.400 something stronger and asked for some of the Michael Jackson stuff. The singer's 2009 death

00:09:01.700 was officially attributed to the legal and the legal aesthetic pro pro pro poful i don't know

00:09:11.360 to say that um cory richens was a suburban mom real estate agent she does not know a lot about

00:09:16.980 the illicit street drug world but she does know michael jackson died from taking illicit drugs

00:09:21.480 bloodworth the prosecutor said in court she knows she wants it because it was lethal it's fatal it

00:09:26.660 kills multiple court filings eric got sick after eating a sandwich that cory had left him alongside

00:09:32.680 a love note days after valentine's day oh that's so oh my god do you know what at least when men 1.00

00:09:40.020 kill like they just get right to it they just take her and you know rape her and just kill her women 1.00

00:09:45.300 she oh she gave you death with a love note uh saying he broke out in hives and had trouble 1.00

00:09:51.480 breathing immediately he self-administered his son's epi pen and slept it off but later told

00:09:56.260 a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him. Corey asked labor for more fentanyl

00:10:00.600 pills about two weeks after that. Prosecutors say and picked them up from the drop-off location on

00:10:06.100 February 6th. Eric died six days later. Prosecutors painted Corey as an intensely ambitious but

00:10:13.620 incompetent business owner who projected affluence even though she fell deeper and deeper into debt.

00:10:19.560 Corey was Eric's second wife when when the two were married in 2013 they signed a prenup

00:10:23.800 establishing that they did not have the rights to each other's properties. And with one exception,

00:10:28.060 if Eric died while the two were lawfully married, their prenup meant that if she left him, she would

00:10:33.520 also have to leave most of the money. So Corey Richens took a quarter of a million dollars in

00:10:37.540 equity out on Eric Richens' home without him knowing it so that she could start her own

00:10:41.760 business and earn money to leave Eric Richens. Corey started a small business flipping houses

00:10:47.020 in 2019, buying more and more of them amid mounting debt. That same year, prosecutors said

00:10:53.000 she used the power of attorney to execute a $250,000 home equity line of credit on their 0.99

00:10:59.140 family home. Unbeknownst to Eric, even though it was his premarital property, she also began

00:11:04.780 misappropriating monies distributed from Eric Richen's business that were intended for his

00:11:09.940 quarterly tax payments. Yeah. Doug MPA, it's better to have loved and lost. And I'm actually

00:11:15.520 kind of neutral, but we were having a convo the other day if it was better to have loved and lost

00:11:20.820 or to never have loved it all i don't know some of these owls bruh this dude lost his life that's

00:11:26.460 bruh this came to eric's attention in september of 2020 by which cory had charged more than 30

00:11:31.400 000 on his credit card and withdrawn at least a hundred thousand dollars from his bank accounts

00:11:36.080 when confronted she promised to repay him in the meantime eric quietly consulted both a divorce

00:11:41.760 lawyer and an estate planning lawyer changing his will in 2020 to place his estate under the control

00:11:47.160 of his sister for the benefit of the kids. Prosecutors said by the end of 2021, Corey's

00:11:51.880 business bank account was overdrawn by $22,520 and she was paying thousands of dollars daily

00:11:58.340 to service her debt. You know, it's crazy. She married rich. She didn't have to do all this.

00:12:02.280 Why are you doing all this business stuff? She had seven phone calls with a money lender on the

00:12:07.820 day of Eric's death, by which point Bloodworth said that her net worth was negative 1.6 million,

00:12:13.760 but she named as the beneficiary on multiple life insurance policies belonging to Eric.

00:12:19.500 According to prosecutors at the time of Eric's death, he was insured by at least six different

00:12:23.620 policies. At least four of those totaling 1.9 million were unbeknownst to him purchased by

00:12:28.740 Corey between 2015 and 2017. She also made herself a beneficiary of another policy held

00:12:34.340 jointly with Eric and his business partner just months before his death, though he changed it

00:12:38.920 once his insurance company alerted him. Corey found out that she'd been removed from Eric's

00:12:43.380 estate plan days after his death court follow filings said she learned from his sister who then

00:12:49.220 who she then punched in the neck in the face oh my god 0.99

Pearl - March 21, 2026

＂She Gives Me Sarah Stock Vibes＂ - THE TRADWIFE M＊RDERER

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