Kouri Richins trial opening

This week on Headline Highlights: Newly released grand jury documents reveal that d4vd has officially been named a suspect in the murder investigation surrounding the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. After months of silence, authorities have charged the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner in her homicide aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship. The first week of trial against Kouri Richins featured major testimony and new allegations as prosecutors laid out their case surrounding the death of her husband, Eric Richins. After disappearing in 2001, Michele Hundley Smith was found alive nearly 24 years later and briefly arrested on an old DWI warrant that had been waiting since the month she vanished…
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