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Utah author sentenced for husband's fentanyl murder
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and children's book author, was sentenced to life without parole for murdering her husband Eric Richins by poisoning his Moscow Mule with fentanyl in March 2022. Richins had published a grief-themed children's book after his death while facing financial difficulties.
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- The glamorous mother who helped drugs baron plot her ex-husband's murder: Attacked as he slept, doused in sulphuric acid and left to die in agony - while their daughter lay in the next room. Read TOM RAWSTORNE'S chilling report
- The glamorous mother who helped drugs baron plot her ex-husband's murder: Attacked as he slept, doused in sulphuric acid and left to die in agony - while their daughter lay in the next room. Read TOM RAWSTORNE'S chilling report
2026-05-13
- Utah mom gets life sentence for husband's murder
- Did Utah mom charged in husband's death poison him with a cocktail?
- Utah mom sentenced to life without parole for husband's murder
- Kouri Richins reads statement addressed to her sons at sentencing hearing
- Children’s book author sentenced for husband’s poisoning death as judge calls her ‘too dangerous’
- Mom sentenced to life without parole for fatally poisoning husband with fentanyl
- Grief author Kouri Richins gives 40-minute rant about love and calls husband's poisoning murder a 'tragedy' as she learns fate in Moscow Mule slaying... and sends deranged message to her sons
- Grief author Kouri Richins gives 40-minute rant about love and calls husband's poisoning murder a 'tragedy' as she learns fate in Moscow Mule slaying... and sends deranged message to her sons
- Kouri Richins sentenced in husband's fentanyl-laced cocktail murder
- Utah woman who published a book on grief after husband’s death to be sentenced for his murder
- Utah woman who published book on grief after husband’s death to be sentenced for his murder