"She wanted to leave Eric Richins but did not want to leave his money. Prosecutors say Richins, 35, slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that she made for her husband, causing his death in March 2022 at their home just outside the affluent ski town of Park City."
"Defendant Kouri Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed she would inherit her husband Eric Richins' estate worth more than $4 million when he died, prosecutors said during closing arguments in her murder trial."
"They haven't done their job, and now they want you to make inferences based on paper-thin evidence. They want you to do their job for them. Tell them, 'No,' defense attorney Wendy Lewis urged the jury on Monday."
Kouri Richins, a 35-year-old Utah woman who published a children's book about grief, stands trial for allegedly murdering her husband Eric by slipping five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail in March 2022. Prosecutors argue she killed him for his $4 million estate while facing $4.5 million in personal debt. She is also charged with insurance fraud, attempting to poison him on Valentine's Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich, and other felonies. The aggravated murder charge carries a sentence of 25 years to life. Richins waived her right to testify and her defense rested without calling witnesses, arguing prosecutors failed to provide sufficient evidence for conviction.
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