Kouri Richins Told Her Sons to 'Never Apologize' — What Did She Mean?

When Eric Richens' family stood to deliver their impact statements at sentencing, Corey Richens rolled her eyes.

She mouths the words, "What? What?" Remember that? Just, just like, there was like a head shaking.

There was kind of like the body goes up and it comes down.

"What?" Almost like a little twist, like a sprinkler going back and forth in the what out to the entire room, like an oscillating sprinkler of bullshit.

She smirked.

She made faces when her former sister-in-law described what losing Eric had done to the family.

I mean, who-- I mean, even if you didn't do it, why are you smirking on someone talking about the loss of the person you supposedly loved, the father to your own damn children? You don't have to absorb it as you did it, but, I mean, if you didn't in your mind.

But smirking? I mean, e-e-even if, if someone else did it in Corey's mind, still, like...

It was raw emotion for these people here who are feeling this loss.

Oh, how are you able to do that? You have no empathy at all.

You can't process things of that nature, and you can't feel things of that nature.

That's why you come across to the rest of the world as a blithering fucking alien moron.

She smirked.

She made faces.

She maintained that posture while therapists read statements from her own children, children who described being locked in rooms and the basement, who said their mother had threatened to harm their pets.

Who said they were denied food.

Children who referred to her as Corey, not Mom.

Children who asked the judge for the harshest possible punishment.

Contempt through all of it.

Then the defense's turn came, and Corey's mother took the stand, her sister, her brother.

They called her the glue of the family.

And they said her innocence would shine too brightly to be contained, and Corey just dissolved, full visible, uncontrolled sobbing, just, oh, the adoration.

The first genuine emotional display the courtroom had seen from her throughout all of the trial.

Pain directed at her produced contempt.

Praise directed at her produced tears.

When Eric Richens' family stood to deliver their impact statements at sentencing, Corey Richens rolled her eyes.

She mouths the words, "What? What?" Remember that? Just, just like, there was like a head shaking.

There was kind of like the body goes up and it comes down.

"What?" Almost like a little twist, like a sprinkler going back and forth in the what out to the entire room, like an oscillating sprinkler of bullshit.

She smirked.

She made faces when her former sister-in-law described what losing Eric had done to the family.

I mean, who-- I mean, even if you didn't do it, why are you smirking on someone talking about the loss of the person you supposedly loved, the father to your own damn children? You don't have to absorb it as you did it, but, I mean, if you didn't in your mind.

But smirking? I mean, e-e-even if, if someone else did it in Corey's mind, still, like...

It was raw emotion for these people here who are feeling this loss.

Oh, how are you able to do that? You have no empathy at all.

You can't process things of that nature, and you can't feel things of that nature.

That's why you come across to the rest of the world as a blithering fucking alien moron.

She smirked.

She made faces.

She maintained that posture while therapists read statements from her own children, children who described being locked in rooms and the basement, who said their mother had threatened to harm their pets.

Who said they were denied food.

Children who referred to her as Corey, not Mom.

Children who asked the judge for the harshest possible punishment.

Contempt through all of it.

Then the defense's turn came, and Corey's mother took the stand, her sister, her brother.

They called her the glue of the family.

And they said her innocence would shine too brightly to be contained, and Corey just dissolved, full visible, uncontrolled sobbing, just, oh, the adoration.

The first genuine emotional display the courtroom had seen from her throughout all of the trial.

Pain directed at her produced contempt.

Praise directed at her produced tears.