A Utah woman who wrote a book on grief after husband's death found guilty of murdering him

"Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that he drank. They say Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed that when her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million. They also say she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side."

"She was also convicted of other felony charges, including an attempted murder charge in what authorities alleged was another effort to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine's Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him break out in hives and black out."

""She wanted to leave Eric Richins but did not want to leave his money," said Summit County prosecutor Brad Bloodworth."

Kouri Richins was found guilty of aggravated murder for poisoning her husband Eric Richins with five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022 at their Park City home. She was also convicted of insurance fraud and attempted murder for an earlier Valentine's Day poisoning attempt. Prosecutors established that Richins, facing $4.5 million in debt, believed she would inherit her husband's $4 million estate and was involved with another man. After Eric's death, she self-published a children's book about grief. Her defense claimed Eric was addicted to painkillers and requested opioids, contradicting her earlier police statements denying his drug use. The aggravated murder conviction carries a sentence of 25 years to life.

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