"Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that he drank. They say Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed that if her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million. They also say she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side."
"She was also convicted of other felony charges, including an attempted murder charge in what authorities alleged was another effort to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine's Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him break out in hives and black out."
"Richins' defense attorney said Eric Richins was addicted to painkillers and had asked his wife to procure opioids for him. Kouri Richins, however, told police earlier in a video that her husband had no history of illicit drug use."
Kouri Richins was found guilty of aggravated murder for poisoning her husband Eric Richins with five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. She was also convicted of fraudulently claiming insurance benefits and attempted murder for an earlier poisoning attempt on Valentine's Day. Prosecutors established that Richins was deeply in debt and believed she would inherit her husband's $4 million estate. Following his death, she self-published a children's book about coping with grief. Her defense claimed Eric Richins was addicted to painkillers and requested opioids from his wife, contradicting her earlier statements to police denying his drug use.
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