Utah Woman Convicted of Poisoning Husband, Publishing Grief Book
A Utah author who wrote a children's book on grief was found guilty of murdering her husband by slipping a lethal dose of fentanyl into his drink.
In a shocking turn of events, a Utah woman named Kouri Richins has been convicted of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The case has garnered nationwide attention, as Richins had recently self-published a children's book about coping with grief, which some saw as a chilling attempt to profit from her husband's death.
Prosecutors alleged that Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that her husband drank in March 2022. The couple's three young children were reportedly present at the time of the incident. Eric Richins, a well-known real estate agent in the local community, died shortly after consuming the tainted drink.
Source: The Guardian
