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The Kouri Richins murder trial opened in Park City's Summit County Courthouse, and Day 1 made one thing clear — this is going to be a five-week war over who Kouri Richins really is.

Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth came out with a devastating digital trail. Three memes allegedly accessed on Kouri's phone the morning Eric's body was wheeled out — including one reading "I'm rich" — while their three sons waited upstairs, not yet told their father was dead. He laid out $4.5 million in alleged debt, over 200 overdrafted transactions, text messages to alleged boyfriend Josh Grossman about marriage and vacations, internet searches for luxury prisons, and a fifteen-minute gap between Kouri allegedly grabbing her phone and calling 911.

Defense attorney Kathryn Nester fired back with Kouri's 911 call — sobbing and barely coherent — and told the jury they were witnessing a wife become a widow. She attacked Carmen Lauber, the prosecution's key witness, who allegedly never mentioned fentanyl in her initial police statement and only changed her story under threat of imprisonment. Lauber's own drug dealer later recanted in a sworn affidavit. No fentanyl was ever recovered from the home. The glasses from that night were never tested. The death certificate lists manner of death as unknown.

Eric's sister Katie Richins-Benson gave the day's most gut-wrenching testimony — arriving at the house, watching Kouri shake her head, and falling to the floor. She described Kouri as calm, well-dressed, and allegedly focused on closing a multimillion-dollar real estate deal while the family broke down around her. The defense pushed back hard on Katie's four-year-old memories and the family's six-figure investment in a private investigator hired to build a case against Kouri.

The battle lines are drawn. The witch versus the widow. Five weeks to go.

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