She wrote a book about her husband’s death. Now she’s on trial for his murder

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother of three who wrote a children's book about coping with grief after her husband's death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him, looks on during a court hearing in 2024 - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A year after her husband died, Utah mother Kouri Richins self-published a children’s book that she said helped her three sons cope with the loss.

Richins promoted the book, Are You With Me?, on TV and drew praise for helping young people to process the death of a parent.