The jury foreperson of the highly publicized Kouri Richins trial is speaking out after Richins was convicted on all counts after just three hours of deliberation.
Kouri was found guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, in March 2022 by giving him a cocktail that was laced with lethal amounts of fentanyl. It was determined she did this for financial gain.
The foreperson in the murder trial, identified only by her first name, Laura, provided an exclusive interview to Good Morning America, in which she described what the members of the jury were thinking as they prepared to head into deliberation.
"She was kind of nondescript. She didn't really show that much emotion. I was trying to get some vibe from her, and it was very hard to pick up any kind of vibe,” she said.
Laura explained that it was not difficult for the jury to come to a unanimous guilty verdict.
"There was never a not guilty check with anything, with any element, nothing," she said.
"Even though it was just three hours, I felt like we came into that deliberation fully loaded," she continued. “To evaluate the case and to look at the evidence, we had to zoom in on these little bits of evidence and kind of ignore all the fluff and ignore the drama."
Toward the end of the trial, Laura and the rest of the jury would learn the shocking news of what Kouri did after poisoning her husband and the father of her three young children. Kouri played the role of a grieving widow, self-publishing a children’s book on grief and then going on local news to promote it.
"Everyone just felt like they're hit with a truck," she said. "We're like, what? What the hell is this? It was so odd and so strange."
In addition to being found guilty of aggravated murder, Kouri was also found guilty of attempted murder, insurance fraud, and forgery.
