Video After The Jump
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After her husband died last year, she wrote a children’s book on grief. Now she’s charged with his murder.
Kouri Richins was arrested on Monday in Utah & is accused in charging documents of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in Kamas.
Prosecutors allege that Richins called authorities in the middle of the night in March 2022 to report that her husband, Eric Richins, was “cold to the touch.” The mother of 3 told officers that she had made her husband a mixed vodka drink to celebrate him selling a home & then went to soothe 1 of their children to sleep in their bedroom. She later returned&d upon finding her husband unresponsive, called 911.
A medical examiner later found 5 times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his system.
In addition to the murder charge, Richins also faces charges involving the alleged possession of GHB — a narcolepsy drug.
The charges — which are based on officers’ interactions with Richins that night & the account of an “unnamed acquaintance” who claims to have sold her the fentanyl — come 2 months after Richins appeared on local television to promote “Are you with me?” a picture book she wrote to help children cope after the death of a loved one.
For a segment entitled “Good Things Utah,” Richins called her husband’s death unexpected & described how it sent her & her 3 boys reeling.
“It’s — you know — explaining to my kid just because he’s not present here with us physically, doesn’t mean his presence isn’t here with us,” she told the anchors, who commended her for being an amazing mother.
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