A Utah lady wrote a kids's ebook on how to deal with grief after her husband's loss of life. She's been charged along with his homicide.

• A girl from Utah was arrested Monday for fatally poisoning her husband final 12 months, officers mentioned. 
• Kouri Darden Richins fastened her husband a cocktail spiked with fentanyl, courtroom paperwork present.
• The mom had lately revealed a kids’s ebook about methods to cope with grief of a beloved one.

A Utah lady who wrote a kids’s ebook about how to deal with grief after her husband’s loss of life has been charged along with his homicide, in accordance with a number of experiences. 

Kouri Richins, of Summit County, Utah, was arrested on Monday for fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, of their residence on March 4, 2022, CBS-affiliated TV station KUTV reported.

In courtroom paperwork filed on Monday, investigators mentioned that on the evening of his loss of life, Richins had fastened her husband a Moscow Mule spiked with fentanyl that was “roughly 5 occasions the deadly dosage.”

The mother-of-three instructed investigators that she made him a cocktail to have a good time closing on her home for a enterprise. After giving him the drink in mattress, she mentioned she fell asleep with one in all her kids in a separate room as a result of the kid was having “evening terrors,” the paperwork mentioned.

When she awakened, she mentioned she discovered her husband “chilly to the contact” and known as 911. Upon their arrival, police discovered Eric mendacity on the foot of the mattress, and he was declared lifeless on the scene, in accordance with the paperwork. 

Investigators mentioned that Richins purchased 15 to 30 fentanyl tablets by means of an acquaintance for $900.

The acquaintance instructed investigators that Kouri later mentioned she “requested for ‘among the Michael Jackson stuff,'” the paperwork mentioned.

Eric had instructed pals earlier than his loss of life that he thought his spouse was attempting to poison him, in accordance with courtroom paperwork cited by Nationwide Public Radio affiliate KPCW. The report acknowledged that he modified the beneficiary of his will and his energy of lawyer to exchange his spouse along with his sister.

KPCW reported that the couple had argued a few $2 million residence that Richins needed to purchase, however which Eric thought was costly.  

Richins has been charged with first-degree aggravated homicide and three counts of second-degree possession of a managed substance with intent to distribute, the paperwork present.

After her husband’s loss of life, Richins wrote a kids’s ebook titled “Are You with Me?” which was revealed on March 5.

Whereas selling her ebook on a neighborhood tv present in April, Richins mentioned that it was supposed to assist kids who misplaced a relative “discover happiness a way or one other.”

“My husband handed away unexpectedly final 12 months … it utterly took us all by shock,” she instructed Good Issues Utah.

“I am attempting to know not solely methods to grieve as a widow, as a spouse, but in addition with my youngsters, methods to assist them perceive what simply occurred,” she added. 

A ebook description on Amazon additionally reads: “Written by a loving mom who personally confronted this problem, this ebook is designed to supply consolation and solace to younger minds in a means that’s each accessible and fascinating.”

Richins’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.