Kouri Richins Paid $2,500 for a Grief Book She Never Wrote

She Googled “luxury prisons for the rich in america” while the investigation into her husband’s death was still open. She searched her own name and net worth. She checked whether deleted texts could be recovered and whether the FBI gets involved in cases like hers. And then she published a children’s book about grief, went on local television to promote it, and performed the role of devastated widow for fourteen months straight. In part four of our definitive series, we dismantle every layer of Kouri Richins’ cover-up — from the 800 deleted messages to the “Walk the Dog” letter found in her jai...