Andrea Canning

Something was up.

Investigators had been looking into Corey's past and her story of a perfect life with her husband was about to unravel.

Beyond writing a children's book, Corey had also filed two lawsuits months earlier.

Her target was Eric's sister, Katie, who controlled Eric's trust, and with it, her brother's estate.

You know, nothing belongs to Corey at this point.

So I think, you know, she was obviously pretty upset with that.

While Eric's estate attorney says she assured Corey she could stay in the house, Corey wanted to undo the trust and get at least half of her husband's assets.

Still, her brother maintained she was only interested in one thing.

Everybody looked at it as she was trying to get money out of the estate or whatever.

She never cared about the money.

She was trying to keep her house.

In response to Corey's lawsuits, Eric's sister hired private investigator Todd Gabler.

My job was to investigate on behalf of the estate to determine whether there was a wrongful death, to determine if there was financial mismanagement.

Eric's sisters and father wanted to know if Corey squandered his money on her house flipping business or was even responsible for Eric's death.

When do you all realize that the Richens family has hired a private detective to look into all of this?

The PI brought on a forensic accountant who found Corey was deep in the red.

She'd taken on too many houses.

None of it was solvent.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul?

Corey was in a huge amount of financial trouble.