This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the Kouri Richins case gets examined through the lens that explains it most completely — the pattern of behavior that ran from the marriage through the murder through the morning show appearances, and the victims across true crime history who recognized exactly what was happening to them and still couldn't escape it. After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" — about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Performed the grieving widow on national television. Prosecutors say she killed him. Tony Brueski examines that performance alongside Nancy Crampton-Brophy, who in 2011 published an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" — discussing methods, discussing freedom, writing under her real name. Seven years later she shot her husband Daniel twice in the chest. The essay was excluded from trial as too old. The jury convicted her anyway. She bought the gun with traceable methods. She drove her own minivan to the crime scene. The narcissist can't stay invisible. They need someone to appreciate how clever they are. Kouri wrote herself as the grieving mother. Nancy wrote herself as the murder expert. Both stepped into spotlights that exposed them. Then Tony examines the victims who knew. Eric Richins told friends after Valentine's Day 2022 that he thought Kouri might be poisoning him. He'd been violently ill. A month later, prosecutors say she made him a Moscow Mule with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. He was dead by morning. Bobby Curley grabbed a nurse's arm on September 22, 1991 — weak, barely able to sit up — and said clearly: "Please help me. My wife is trying to kill me. She is not as she seems." His heart stopped the next morning. Joann had been poisoning his iced tea with thallium for nearly a year. Hair analysis later confirmed eleven months of poisoning. Nine hundred times the lethal dose. Two days before he died, Joann won a $1.7 million settlement. She needed him dead first. Eric saw it. Bobby said it out loud in a hospital. Neither survived it. This is what that pattern looks like from the inside. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #KouriRichins #KouriRichinsGuilty #NancyCramptonBrophy #JoannCurley #BobbyCurley #PerfectWife #NarcissistKiller #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WifePoisoner