A cell phone goes dark for eighteen hours. A vehicle tracked with stolen plates from two different states. Surveillance footage allegedly showing a man walking through his ex-wife’s yard while she’s at a football game three weeks before she’s found shot to death. The Michael McKee case has all the hallmarks of a prosecution’s dream—until you start picking it apart. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis does exactly that, identifying the evidentiary fault lines that could turn a seemingly airtight case into a battlefield of reasonable doubt.
But that’s only half of what we’re unpacking. In Utah, Kouri Richins is two weeks from facing a jury on charges she poisoned her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl. The problem? The state’s key witness in the drug sourcing chain just recanted, now claiming he sold OxyContin, not fentanyl, and that he was detoxing during his original interview. No fentanyl was ever recovered. No pills. No forensic link directly connecting Kouri to the drugs that killed Eric Richins. And now her defense team is alleging prosecutors threatened witnesses with arrest and dangled immunity revocations to secure cooperation.
Faddis walks through both cases with the precision of someone who’s built prosecutions from the ground up—and torn them apart from the defense table. What does it mean when your murder weapon is never found? How do you prove a poisoning without physical evidence? Can surveillance footage prove premeditation, or could the defense flip it into proof of innocence? And when does a seven-week trial with over a hundred witnesses stop looking like overwhelming evidence and start looking like a prosecution that can’t make its case concisely?
The answers aren’t what you’d expect.
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