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Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book on grief after her husband’s death, gets life sentence

Colorado Springs Gazette·Hannah Schoenbaum·19 days ago
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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah mother who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his murder, a judge ruled Wednesday. Kouri Richins was convicted in March of aggravated murder for lacing her husband Eric Richins’ cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl at their home near Park City in 2022. A jury also found her guilty of four other felonies, including insurance fraud, forgery and attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich . Her defense said it will appeal the conviction and sentence. “A person convicted of those things is simply too dangerous to ever be free,” Judge Richard Mrazi said when handing down the sentence on the day that Eric Richins would have turned 44. Prosecutors said Richins, a 35-year-old real estate agent with a house-flipping business, was millions in debt and planning a future with another man.…

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