UT - Kouri Richins, 33, Author, wife, mom, charged in husband’s unexpected death last year, May 2023 #3

[arielilane]

@NateNewsNow


Nester asks about calls and whether Gipson was involved in making transcripts of the calls. She was not. Nester wants to go through a timeline. She asks Gipson if EMTs were still doing CPR on Eric Richins when she arrived at the home. They had stopped. Gipson was on scene to assist Detective Woody. Woody told Gipson she needed assistance in documenting the bedroom.


11:03 AM · Feb 25, 2026


Nester asks about a photo taken in the master bedroom showing a sheet off the bed. Dispatchers told Kouri to give Eric CPR and because he was heavier than her, she pulled him off the bed onto the floor with the sheet underneath him. The sheet is still in evidence. There was some blood on it, Gipson says. Nester asks why Gipson kept it as evidence. "Because it was where he died on," she responds.


11:07 AM · Feb 25, 2026

 

[tlcya]

Ish happens. Sucks when your client has been in jail charged with murder and a witness mentions their phone calls from jail.

MOO The jury isn't stupid, they know she is charged with murder. I doubt they thought she's been on an extended European vacation all this time awaiting trial.

 

[arielilane]

@NateNewsNow


Nester shows a photo of the nightstand in the bedroom. There is a wallet on the nightstand. She asks Gipson how it got there. Gipson believes it was in the kitchen and placed on the nightstand. Nester asks if anything under the wallet could be contaminated because it was placed there. Gipson says it was just placed there. Nester asks if she was aware a hydrocodone bottle had been removed from one of the drawers. She is aware, but did not personally take the bottle.


11:09 AM · Feb 25, 2026

 

[Moon1871]

Witness: “Are you talking about jail calls?”

Defense: MOVE TO STRIKE, CALL FOR SIDEBAR

Yes, people of the jury, miss Richins is an inmate!

My goodness, why doesn't she just take a plea deal, this is a sinking ship.
Let's get it over with for everyone's sake.

JMO

 

[arielilane]

@NateNewsNow


There is some confusion over the different hydrocodone bottles - where they were located in the home and which ones are in evidence. Gipson retrieves the bottles from her evidence box and the attorneys approach the witness stand to look at the bottles.

Nester asks what happened to the hydrocodone bottle found in the nightstand. Gipson says the Medical Examiner has it. Gipson has never tested it. Nester asks if there was fentanyl residue in the bottle, we wouldn't know because it was never tested. Gipson says she was never given the bottle. Nester asks Gipson if she took photos of the kitchen or the closet. She took photos of one side of the closet.

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

Since Nester said they will get back to the 911 call later in trial, I think that means KR is planning to testify.

 

[303gmf]

Omg! Gummies on Nestor’s radar again, now vape pens and now paraphernalia
Beer and liquor too

 

[arielilane]

Witness: “Are you talking about jail calls?”

Defense: MOVE TO STRIKE, CALL FOR SIDEBAR

Yes, people of the jury, miss Richins is an inmate!

My goodness, why doesn't she just take a plea deal, this is a sinking ship.
Let's get it over with for everyone's sake.

JMO

I do think she'll be convicted, but you never know what a jury will decide. The defendant has nothing else. moo

 

[arielilane]

Omg! Gummies on Nestor’s radar again, now vape pens and now paraphernalia
Beer and liquor too

You have now entered the gummies trial.

 

[arielilane]

@NateNewsNow


Nester asks about the gummies and if they were all stored high up where children would not be able to reach them. Gipson responds, "I believe so. Yes." Nester asks about drug paraphernalia - if Gipson saw any on the day of the death. Gipson did not.

Nester asks if it's possible for someone to store illicit drugs in old prescription bottles. Gipson says it's possible. On the day of the death, Gipson did not go upstairs or downstairs. Nester asks about the kitchen and liquor downstairs. There was a fridge in the basement filled with beer. There were liquor bottles in the kitchen downstairs. Nester asks if any of these items were photographed. Gipson says if she did, they would be in her collection of images.

 

[arielilane]

@livkellehernews


Nester zeroing in on the evidence Gipson collected from the scene — asking if the hydrocodone bottle found in the bedroom was taken and photographed, if the kitchen was checked for THC gummies, if she noticed liquor or beer in the kitchen or basement. Gipson said she never entered for photographed the kitchen.


11:16 AM · Feb 25, 2026

 

[tlcya]

Blood on the sheet does it indicate that sheet may have been beneath victim while he was being worked on by EMS? Witness believes that is so.

photo of nightstand - wallet - she doesn't recall knowing who specifically placed it there. Residue on the night stand - could placing wallet on nightstand disturb that white residue? Not by simply laying something on top of it in her opinion.

 

[arielilane]

Nester asks about Gipson going to the home on April 13, 2022, with a search warrant. Nester asks if people are given a heads-up before a search warrant is served. They are not. Gipson clarifies that she is not a law enforcement officer and it's up to the detectives on how search warrants are executed.

@NateNewsNow


Prosecution raises objection about Nester using the term "y'all." Nester says it's a southern thing and it's part of her vocabulary. She says she will try to refrain from using it. Nester asks Gipson what steps she took before the search warrant was executed. There was a briefing beforehand. Gipson thinks she was there for part of it.

Gipson says Kouri Richins was not in the home when they went to serve the warrant. Nester asks if the search warrant covered the vehicles at the house. There were two vehicles in the garage, but Gipson was not part of the team searching the cars. Nester asks Gipson if she remembers the weather that day. It was cold and snow was on the ground. Gipson and the team were at the house for about a half day - several hours.

 

[Megnut]

1 hour recess, judge has a conflicting obligation.

 

[arielilane]

Court in recess until 10:30 am MT and 12:30 pm ET.

 

[tlcya]

I think Nester could benefit from some gummies. JMO she seems obsessed with them

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026695312476352707

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026694684915978722

 

[CHEL]

Just curious, does Khouri have any contact with her kids?

 

[Megnut]

Question: in the hours bracketing ER's  murder, was KP hopping around the house hiding Easter gummies everywhere? And when I say "hiding", I mean "arranging them to stick out like neon signs"?

Are we supposed to believe that, with three littles in the house, whom he adored, he left gummies everywhere?

Not credible.

What is credible is that, from the first moment on 911, KR was setting the stage, conflating innocent gummy use with illicit drug use in order for ER to be the cause of his own death.

And stretching an old prescription for pain killers into a full-blown addiction to street drugs, kept bedside.

No evidence of any kind to support that.

ER's life was in order, his health was in order, his finances in order, his activities with work and his sons, in order.

Meanwhile motive was veritable oozing from KR's pores.

JMO

 

[arielilane]

This "scheduling conflict” possibly more about defense making (personal) comments rather than just sticking with asking questions. moo