Eric's Brother-in-Law Found a Secret $250K Loan Kouri Richins Hid From Her Husband

A quarter million dollars. Taken against Eric Richins' own home. And he had no idea until his brother-in-law pulled up the county records. Clinton Benson is married to Eric's sister Katie. He sold Eric the house at 282 Willow Court before Eric and Kouri married there in 2013. In late 2020, Eric called Katie in distress. Benson overheard it on speakerphone, jumped on the Summit County recorder's website, and found a $250,000 home equity line of credit on the property. That discovery sent Eric to a divorce attorney. It also put Benson at the center of what comes next. Watch what Benson describes when he arrives at the house the night Eric died. His observations about Kouri's behavior that morning, and the plan she already had for Eric's company, are the kind of details the defense can't let stand unchallenged. Attorney Wendy Lewis pushes back on every one of them. ⏰ KEY MOMENTS 00:00 - Benson takes the stand. Real estate professional, Eric's brother-in-law, and the man who sold Eric the home he died in. 02:04 - After Kouri's arrest, Benson locked down the house within hours. Cameras, security, taped doors. Pay attention to what this says about the family's mindset. 08:00 - The phone call that changed everything. Eric on speakerphone, distressed. Benson pulls up the county records and finds the $250K loan. 14:23 - The night Eric died. Benson describes the frantic drive to the house and what he saw when he walked in. 18:55 - This is the moment. Benson says Kouri had a "fully baked plan" for Eric's company on the morning of his death. 19:44 - Defense attorney Wendy Lewis takes over. She's not letting any of this go unchallenged. Watch what she does with Benson's observations. 33:14 - Lewis lands her strongest point. Benson admits he'd never seen Kouri grieve before. So how would he know what's normal? FROM THE DESK OF JUSTICE: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/des... CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://justiceisaprocess.com/ut-v-ri... 📖 CASE BACKGROUND On March 4, 2022, Kouri Richins called 911 from her Francis, Utah home at 3 a.m. Her husband Eric was unresponsive. Toxicology revealed five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. Eric had no history of drug use. Prosecutors allege Kouri had been taking money from Eric for years. They say she owed lenders more than $1.8 million and had opened nearly $2 million in life insurance on Eric without him knowing. Eric discovered the financial issues in 2020. He changed his will, created a trust naming his sister as trustee, and removed Kouri as beneficiary. One year after Eric's death, Kouri published a children's book about a father watching over his son from heaven. Four weeks later, she was arrested. The defense maintains her innocence. 📂 PLAYLISTS & RESOURCES 🌐 Website: https://justiceisaprocess.com ► Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • LIVE BROADCAST: UT v. Kouri Richins   ► No Breaks Edition:    • NO BREAKS EDITION: UT v. Kouri Richins   ► Trial Analysis Podcast:    • PODCAST: UT v. Kouri Richins   ► Key Moments Playlist:    • KEY MOMENTS AND TESTIMONY: UT v. Kouri Ric...   ► Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   ⚖️ ABOUT JUSTICE IS A PROCESS This channel continues the work of Steven M. Askin, a criminal defense attorney who was disbarred in 1998 for refusing to violate attorney-client privilege, then criminally convicted in 2010 for teaching people their constitutional rights from a coffee shop in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He passed away in February 2024, but not before he and I started this channel together. I am Steven M. Askin II. I am not an attorney. I am a watchdog. I cover criminal trials to educate the public about due process, the presumption of innocence, and constitutional protections. Every video on this channel is part of building the machine the system feared my father would create: a public trained to watch, question, and demand accountability. This is not entertainment. This is education. This is oversight. This is Justice Is A Process. ⚖️ FAIR USE & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. § 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. No copyright infringement is intended. All video content is used for transformative educational purposes with added legal analysis and commentary. #JusticeIsAProcess #KouriRichins #UtahVRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #SummitCounty #TrueCrime #CourtroomCoverage #CriminalJustice #LegalAnalysis