Kouri Richins, the mother who wrote a children’s book on grief after her husband’s death, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for poisoning him with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. The 35-year-old real estate agent and house flipper was convicted in March of aggravated murder, along with four other felonies, including attempted murder for a previous poisoning attempt on Valentine’s Day.
The case took a chilling turn when prosecutors revealed Richins, who is from Utah, had laced her husband Eric Richins’ cocktail with fentanyl in March 2022, weeks after trying to poison him with a fentanyl-laced sandwich. According to The Guardian, Judge Richard Mrazik handed down the sentence on what would have been Eric’s 44th birthday, calling Richins “simply too dangerous to ever be free.”
