A Love Story Tainted by Secrets On paper, Greg de Villers and Kristin Margrethe Rossum looked like a golden couple at the dawn of the new millennium. Greg, a French-born biotech worker in his mid-twenties, had found professional footing with an up‑and‑coming firm in San Diego. Kristin, also in her mid‑twenties, had graduated summa cum laude from San Diego State University and parlayed that into a coveted job as a toxicologist with the San Diego County medical examiner’s offic

The trial of Kouri Richins lasted three weeks, had forty-two witnesses, and only three hours of deliberation before she was found guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins using a drink laced with enough fentanyl to kill him five times over.

The Case That Shocked the Nation What happens when a grieving widow publishes a children's book about loss — and turns out to be the reason her children lost their father? Welcome to one of the most chilling and audacious true crime cases in recent American history: the story of Kouri Richins , a Utah mother of three who was convicted on March 16, 2026, of murdering her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl — and then had the nerve to write a book about grief.

The mask: “church lady,” daycare operator, trusted neighbor In Cordele, Georgia, Janie Lou Gibbs blended into the safest kind of small-town scenery: a mother, a churchgoing woman, and a caregiver who ran a daycare. People trusted her—because everything about her life looked ordinary, even admirable. That’s what makes this case so chilling for true crime listeners: the danger didn’t arrive from outside the home. It lived at the center of it. Between 1966 and 1967 , multiple