00:00Accordingly, Ms. Richens, based on your conviction on count one, first-degree felony aggravated murder.
00:07The court hereby sentences you to life without parole.
00:12Corey's selfishness and cruelty did not end with Eric's murder.
00:16In the time after Eric's death, Corey has done nothing but isolate, manipulate, deceive, and do harm to those boys.
00:25Almost immediately after Eric died, she cut them off completely from our family, from Eric's family.
00:32The isolation was calculated and strategic.
00:35Corey used the boys' bargaining chips with my dad.
00:38She repeatedly threatened not to let him see his grandsons,
00:42unless he could convince me, as Eric's trustee, of his trust to capitulate to her legal demands and give her
00:52all the trust assets.
00:53While isolating the boys, Corey provided them with false and harmful information about me and my family.
00:59I can beat myself up all day about how I could have been a better person, or made better personal
01:06choices.
01:07And I can understand and accept you boys being upset about those things.
01:14But murder? No. Absolutely not.
01:18I will not. I will not accept that.
01:20And I will not be blamed for something I did not do.
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