Guilty Verdict for Murdering Husband for Inheritance

0:00It's March 31st, entertainment and celebrity news today starts now. AI-powered and spotlight-ready. I'm Corey, with the story. Corey Richens just got hit with a guilty verdict for aggravated murder and the death of her husband, Eric, back in March of 2022. The 35-year-old author poisoned the 39-year-old father of their three young sons with fentanyl, all while dodging insurance fraud, and four-dry charges too. Prosecutors painted a clear picture of her motives. She was drowning in $4,500,000 of debt from her home flipping. Business and stiffed a pocket over $4,000,000 from his estate. With a prenup in place, she allegedly figured killing him was the way to cash in without splitting assets. The defense tried flipping the script, saying the same facts could paint her as a grieving widow instead of a killer, but the jury saw through it. Eric's death hit hard on the family front, leaving their boys 13, 11, and 9 years old in the care of one of his relatives.

1:00Investigators uncovered more layers, like her secret attempts to buy life insurance policies on him without his knowledge, plus an earlier botched hit. When she laced his Valentine's Day sandwich with fentanyl weeks before, she even planned to run off with her handyman lover right after. Now she's staring down 25 years to life at sentencing on May 13th. What would have been Eric's 44th birthday? Case closed, but the fallout lingers for everyone involved.