Utah Woman Receives Life Sentence in Husband’s Fentanyl-Linked Murder
TL;DR
A Utah judge sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison after she was convicted of aggravated murder and related charges in her husband Eric Richins’ 2022 fentanyl-overdose death. Prosecutors alleged motive and opportunity tied to an affair and financial chaos; Richins’s defense plans to appeal. Richins addressed her young sons in court, while family and friends urged the maximum sentence, which the judge described as necessary because she posed a danger to the public.
- Judge orders Kouri Richins to life in prison for husband’s murder The Salt Lake Tribune
- Kouri Richins, who wrote a children's book about grief after murdering husband, sentenced to life without parole Yahoo
- Utah Children’s Book Author Who Poisoned Husband Will Spend Life in Prison The New York Times
- Utah grief author sentenced to life in prison in husband’s poisoning death NBC News
- Son of Kouri Richins, Utah author convicted of murder, reveals new details about night his father died CBS News
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