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The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani

Utah author of children’s book on grief charged with murdering her husband

Kouri Richins in Park City, Utah, in April.
Kouri Richins in Park City, Utah, in April. Photograph: AP

A Utah woman who recently published a children’s book on losing a parent has been charged with murdering her husband, the father of her three children.

Kouri Richins, 33, of Kamas, Utah, a town outside Salt Lake City, allegedly poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl slipped into a drink, according to authorities. Eric had five times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his body when he died on 4 March 2022, investigators have said.

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