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After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote "Are You With Me?" A children's book about a father who dies and becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Played the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.
Prosecutors say she caused it.
This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's need to control the story.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this impulse. In 2011, she wrote "How to Murder Your Husband." An essay discussing methods, weighing options. She wrote: "If the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don't want to spend any time in jail."
Seven years later, she shot her husband Daniel twice in the chest.
The essay was excluded from trial. The jury convicted her anyway.
She bought a gun with traceable methods. Drove her own minivan to the crime scene. Published her murder blueprint under her real name.
The narcissist can't stay invisible. Staying invisible requires believing someone else is watching. And the narcissist can't truly believe anyone else matters.
Kouri wrote herself as the healing mother. Nancy wrote herself as the murder expert. Both stepped into spotlights that exposed them.
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The Kouri Richins case has been covered from every legal angle. This is the psychological one — and it's the angle that matters most to anyone who recognizes this story from the inside.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke for a wide-ranging conversation that uses the Kouri Richins case as a framework to examine the complete arc of a relationship with someone operating with narcissistic or borderline personality traits. From the first phase — the love bombing, the targeting, the performance that makes everything feel like fate — through the sustained invisible damage of coercive control, trauma bonding, and gaslighting — to the most dangerous moment of all: the exit.
Prosecutors allege that as Eric Richins began quietly moving toward freedom, things escalated toward something fatal. Scott explains why that pattern is so consistent in these relationships, what it looks like in someone calculating rather than explosive, and what anyone in this situation needs to know before they make a move.
This is the Hidden Killers conversation that goes beyond the case.
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On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report finding his wife and son shot to death.
Three months later, he staged his own shooting on a rural roadside.
Both were desperate attempts to maintain control. Both failed.
Part 4 of "The Name" covers the full collapse — the murders, the staged shooting, the investigation that finally caught up with him, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in less than three hours.
This episode explores what happens when a narcissist's world closes in completely. They don't surrender. They escalate until there's nothing left.
The Snapchat video proved Alex was at Moselle that night. His own testimony sealed his fate.
Alex Murdaugh is serving two life sentences. He still says he didn't do it.
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According to prosecutors, Eric Richins was quietly making moves toward freedom — consulting attorneys, adjusting his estate — before he died. If the prosecution is right, those moves set something in motion.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke on Hidden Killers to examine how relationships with narcissistic and borderline partners end — and why the ending is so often the most dangerous part. What triggers the final phase. How someone with this pattern responds to losing their grip on a partner. What that response looks like when it's cold and calculated rather than loud and obvious. And critically — for anyone listening who needs to hear this — what getting out safely actually looks like in practice.
The Kouri Richins case is the framework. The takeaway is for everyone who recognizes themselves in the story.
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On June 30, 2025, three North Andover police officers showed up at the home of their colleague Kelsey Fitzsimmons to serve a restraining order. One of them left having fired his weapon. She left in a medical helicopter.
He says she pointed her service weapon at him and pulled the trigger. She says she was pointing it at herself. There is no body camera footage. There are two sworn accounts of the same moment and nothing in between.
That's the case a Massachusetts jury is walking into this week — and on Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down everything the public needs to understand before the verdict comes in.
The documented postpartum depression crisis. The involuntary commitment. The department taking her weapons — then handing them back twelve days before the shooting. The restraining order obtained while she reportedly waited at a park. The affidavit that called her a danger to her own baby. The grand jury that heard the prosecution's full case and still rejected the top charge. The surveillance footage of an alleged break-in at her home while she was hospitalized. The DA who declined to prosecute the man the prosecution needs as a witness.
Both sides. Every verified fact. No agenda.
This is the introduction to one of the most complicated and consequential cases in Massachusetts in years. We're covering it from start to verdict and beyond.
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