Nearly $2 million in life insurance policies taken out without Eric's knowledge. A confrontation in 2020 when he discovered the financial fraud. An alleged failed attempt on Valentine's Day 2022. Then his death eighteen days later.

FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke has spent his career profiling individuals capable of sustained deception and violence. His "Life Arc" framework examines the pressures, patterns, and escalating behaviors that shape someone's trajectory toward harm. In this episode, we apply that lens to Kouri Richins—using the prosecution's own timeline to ask what someone trained in threat assessment would have seen before March 4, 2022.

Prosecutors allege Kouri obtained fentanyl on February 11th, then contacted her supplier again on February 26th reportedly asking for "something stronger"—allegedly calling it "some of the Michael Jackson stuff." Robin breaks down what that procurement escalation signals about psychological state, and why a failed first attempt typically changes the risk calculus rather than stopping someone.

The behavioral foundation goes deeper. Years of alleged mortgage fraud, falsified bank statements, and money laundered through multiple accounts—all while maintaining an outward appearance of normalcy. When Eric discovered the financial deception in 2020 and consulted a divorce attorney, how did that shift Kouri's baseline? Robin explains the internal transition from sustained deception to something more dangerous.

With jury selection complete and trial beginning February 23rd, this conversation provides the behavioral framework for understanding the patterns prosecutors will present. Not speculation about guilt—that's for twelve jurors over five weeks. But the psychological architecture that allegedly made what happened predictable to anyone trained to see it.

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Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis dismantles the case piece by piece.

The alleged warning signs prosecutors presented span years. An alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad" on a school computer. FBI involvement over school shooting threats in 2023, according to prosecutors. Then, according to the state, the Christmas gift of a SIG Sauer M400 seven months later. By August 2024, Colt allegedly texted his father that "the blood is on your hands" and asked him to buy ammunition.

The defense argues Colt hid his plans. But prosecutors allege the bedroom shrine to the Parkland shooter, the reported voices, the alleged violent episode with his mother, and Colin's own alleged words when officers arrived — "I knew it" — tell a different story. Faddis explains why the Georgia legal framework charging cruelty to children as the basis for second-degree murder may be even more effective than the Crumbley manslaughter model, and he gives his honest assessment of Colin Gray's chances with roughly 20 juvenile victims testifying about being shot.

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The apology isn't coming. The ending won't make sense. The trial won't fix what's broken.

Jake and Romy Reiner will spend years in courtrooms. Hearings. Motions. Their brother's face across the room. And at the end of all that waiting — guilty, not guilty, insanity — their parents are still dead. The verdict gives an outcome. It doesn't give peace.

That's the trap of waiting for external resolution. You make your healing contingent on something you can't control. The court. The apology. The moment of clarity that finally arrives. And while you wait, your life stays frozen.

Justice doesn't equal peace. Families of murder victims describe this — the anticipation of "guilty," the belief that the word will shift something inside them. Then it arrives. And they feel nothing. Because the verdict addressed what the defendant did. It didn't undo what it cost.

Apologies don't rewrite history. Even if they come. Even if they're real. The damage remains. And with people like Nick, the apology usually doesn't come — or comes wrapped in blame-shifting and conditions.

Understanding doesn't mean acceptance. You can know exactly why they're broken — every clinical detail, every contributing factor — and still not be okay with what they did. Comprehending the pathology doesn't erase what the pathology destroyed.

Time doesn't heal. It just passes. Healing isn't something that happens to you. It's something you build. Actively. Painfully. With or without resolution.

Here's the shift that changes everything: closure isn't something you receive. It's something you construct. Peace isn't waiting for the pain to stop. It's deciding that their chaos doesn't get to write your future anymore.

The survivors who make it aren't the ones who got answers. They're the ones who stopped needing them.

Your next chapter doesn't require their permission. Take it.

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