How Did One PI Do What an Entire Sheriff's Office Couldn't in the Kouri Richins Case?

How Did One PI Do What an Entire Sheriff's Office Couldn't in the Kouri Richins Case?

Author: True Crime Today May 30, 2026 Duration: 58:24

The Summit County Sheriff's Office had the case. Todd Gabler had a cane, a laptop, and different rules. By the time he was done — over a year of independent investigation, nearly 50 interviews, GPS surveillance, phone record analysis, and a multi-day search of the Richins home — Gabler had assembled the evidence that helped break open a criminal case law enforcement hadn't been able to move.

This is the complete three-part sit-down with the private investigator at the center of the Kouri Richins prosecution. Gabler walks Tony Brueski through every stage — how a civil assignment became a homicide investigation, what the phone records revealed about Kouri's relationship with the woman prosecutors say bought the fentanyl, why the police investigation stalled and what that cost the Richins family, how the defense tried to discredit him on the stand, and what the case did to a man who'd spent his entire career on the other side.

From the first phone call to the life-without-parole sentence, Gabler tells the story nobody else can tell — because nobody else was this deep inside the case.

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