Скачать или смотреть Forensic Expert Testifies About Kouri Richins' Phone Searches & Deletions

Chris Kotrodimos is a digital forensics expert who was hired by prosecutors to analyze Kouri Richins' phone records. He previously worked for the Raleigh Police Department and the Salt Lake City Police Department.

He testified on Monday (March 2, day 6) about records showing texts and calls as well as deleted messages on Kouri's phone. He highlighted incriminating searches on her phone—including ones about Utah prisons, life insurance and deleting iCloud data —as well as messages connecting her to a drug supplier.

10:15 "Can a download report show if there have been things deleted off of the phone?"
"Yes."

11:48 "So if I'm a common user of a phone and I delete a photo, how long would it be in kind of in the background of that phone and able to be downloaded by this report before it's gone forever?"
"Well, it kind of varies..."

12:58 "If items have been deleted by a user and that phone gets downloaded, and maybe that sweet spot where it's still somewhere in the background of the phone, that could be in the report?"
"It could be."
"But if you miss that window, and then the item is gone for good and can't be found in one of those extraction reports?"
"Pretty much. Once it's deleted from the system file — it's a process called a vacuum — once it's vacuumed out and those files are reduced, it's essentially, you're probably not going to find it."

21:17 "Any communications on Eric Richins' phone about buying drugs?"
"No."

22:30 Kouri's phone extraction

29:47 "Alright, turning your attention to Robert Josh Grossman, did you analyze a download for a phone belonging to that person?'"
"Yes."
"And that download was given to you by the Summit County Sheriff's Office?" "Yes..."

37:18 Richins and Lauber records

39:04 "The call detail records between Kouri Richins and Carmen Lauber and because it's a call detail record, we don't have the content of any of those messages?"
"Correct."
"They've been deleted from Kouri Richins phone?"
"Yes."
"They've been deleted from Carmen Lauber's phone?"
"Yes."
"We don't know what they said?"
"Correct."

44:29 "Well, what we're looking at is is a representation of the call detail records that Ms. Sherman mentioned. What you have on the right hand side is going to be the text communications between Ms. Richins and Ms. Lauber for February 11, 2022."

51:38 Lauber and Richins communicated 34 times the day Lauber got the polls from Robert Crozier

57:38 texts between Richins and her boyfriend, Josh Grossman

59:39 "This is an image that was contained within that text thread that was sent by Ms. Richins to Mr. Grossman."

01:01:11 "Did you also analyze communications between Kouri Richins and Eric Richins on Valentine's Day 2022?"
"Yes."

01:06:04 Eric Richins' phone activity on Valentine's Day, the day Kouri allegedly tried to first poison him
"The graph depicts travel. So in distance, in blue, and in energy exertion, basically in green, and the in frequency, hour to hour on February 14, 2022."

01:22:09 Richins' phone activity the day he died

01:41:00 "And so what are we looking at here?"
"Right here we're just looking at the search function. These are just searches that were inputted into the device."

Background:

Kouri Richins, 35, is accused of fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl at their home in Kamas, Utah, in March 2022. After he died, she self-published a children's book she authored titled "Are You With Me?" about coping with grief.

Eric Richins, 39, was found dead in their home on March 4, 2022.

Prosecutors allege Kouri dropped a lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow Mule cocktail she prepared for him. They say she was motivated by money because she owed nearly $5 million to lenders and had changed her husband's life insurance policies prior to his death while also taking out a home equity line of credit without his knowledge. She also was in a romantic relationship with another man.

You can watch the prosecution's opening statement here    • Greed & Lust Drove Kouri Richins To Poison...   and the defense opening statement here:    • Defense Says Kouri Richins' Husband Overdo...  

Prosecutors allege she previously tried to murder him by poisoning his sandwich on Valentine's Day 2022, which her husband told a friend about.

Richins' criminal charges in Summit County, Utah, include aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery and insurance fraud.

Her trial is scheduled to last five weeks. Judge Richard Mrazik in Utah's 3rd District Court is presiding at the Silver Summit Justice Center near Park City.

******************************************************************************
Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com...