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After Eric Richins died, Kouri wrote a children's book. "Are You With Me?" About a father who becomes a firefly. She went on morning shows. Performed the grieving widow. Put herself at the center of the tragedy.
Prosecutors say she killed him.
This is Part 4 of The Perfect Wife — examining the narcissist's fatal flaw. The need to be seen. Even for murder.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy understood this. In 2011, she wrote an essay called "How to Murder Your Husband." She discussed methods. 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.
The essay was excluded from trial — too old. But the jury convicted her anyway.
She bought a gun with traceable methods. Drove her own minivan to the crime scene. Published her murder methodology under her real name.
The narcissist can't stay invisible. They need credit for their cleverness.
Kouri wrote herself as the grieving mother helping children heal. Nancy wrote herself as the expert on spousal homicide. Both needed the spotlight. And it exposed them.
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The Kouri Richins trial put evidence, testimony, and legal arguments on the record. This conversation puts the psychology on the record — and that's the part that speaks to the widest audience.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to walk through the complete psychological arc of the Richins marriage — using documented patterns of narcissistic and borderline relationships as the lens. The love bombing that makes the beginning feel like fate. The coercive control that makes the middle feel inescapable. The dangerous calculus of the exit. And what recovery honestly demands from the people who make it out.
Listeners who have followed this case will find every unanswered question about the relationship itself addressed in full here.
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June 7, 2021: Alex Murdaugh finds his wife and son shot to death.
September 4, 2021: Alex is "shot" on a rural roadside.
The first was murder. The second was staged. Both stories fell apart.
Part 4 of "The Name" covers the collapse of Alex Murdaugh — the murders, the fake shooting, the investigation, and the trial that ended with guilty verdicts in under three hours.
The Snapchat video proved he was lying about being at Moselle. His own testimony sealed his fate.
This episode explores narcissistic collapse: what happens when a lifetime of avoiding consequences finally catches up.
Alex Murdaugh is serving two consecutive life sentences. He still maintains his innocence.
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In the Kouri Richins case, prosecutors allege that as Eric moved quietly toward the exit — consulting lawyers, adjusting finances — the situation escalated toward something irreversible. That pattern isn't unique to this case. It's documented, it's consistent, and it's something psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent decades studying.
Scott joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to examine the final phase of relationships with narcissistic and borderline partners — what triggers it, what the person losing control actually does, and what anyone in this situation needs to know before they make a move. She also talks about the children left inside these dynamics and what real recovery looks like for the partner who gets out.
This is the conversation that goes beyond the crime.
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A police officer is shot in her own home by a colleague. She survives. She says she was trying to kill herself. He says she tried to kill him. No cameras were rolling. Trial starts this week.
The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case out of North Andover, Massachusetts is one of the most genuinely contested criminal trials of 2026 — and True Crime Today has everything you need to understand it before that jury comes back with a verdict.
Fitzsimmons, a North Andover officer, was served a restraining order by three of her own colleagues on June 30, 2025. The order had been obtained by her fiancé, North Andover firefighter Justin Aylaian, who alleged in a sworn affidavit that he feared she would harm their four-month-old son. What unfolded in her upstairs bedroom ended with Officer Patrick Noonan firing one shot that collapsed her lung, broke her ribs, and damaged her liver.
Noonan says she pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. Fitzsimmons says she pointed it at her own head.
There is no body camera footage to resolve it.
What makes this case demand serious attention: both versions are supported by documented evidence. Fitzsimmons had been involuntarily committed for postpartum depression three months earlier. The department took her guns — then cleared her and gave them back twelve days before the shooting. The grand jury heard the prosecution's full case and still refused to indict her on the top charge.
And three days after she was shot, surveillance cameras at her home allegedly captured her fiancé — the man whose affidavit started everything — walking through her front door while she was hospitalized. The DA declined to prosecute him. He's on the prosecution's witness list.
Trial begins March 23rd. This is the full story — both sides, all facts, no spin.
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