What Are Kouri Richins' Children So Afraid Of?

Kouri Richins' boys couldn't stand up in that courtroom and say what they needed to say. They're too young and too scared. So they wrote it down and asked their therapists to read it for them.

What they wrote is devastating. One boy talked about waking up to sirens and not being able to do anything. Another described becoming a parent to his younger brother — feeding him, walking him to the bus — because no one else in that house was doing it. The youngest described being locked in his room over and over, needing his sibling to bring him food, and watching his animals die because nobody cared enough to keep them alive. Every single one of them asked the judge for the same thing: keep her in prison forever. They said they feel safe now. They said that safety disappears the moment she walks free.

Kouri sat there and scoffed. She rolled her eyes while her own children's pain was read into the record.

Then she got up and talked for fifteen minutes. About herself. Her marriage. Her love for Eric. She never once mentioned what the boys wrote. She told them to "be like your dad" — the man she was convicted of killing. She hinted his death wasn't what prosecutors say. And she told three terrified children that she's coming home.

Tony Brueski goes through every word — the impact statements, Kouri's reactions, and the full speech she gave from that podium. What she said will make your blood boil.

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