A Utah jury convicted Kouri Richins of murder Monday after a weekslong trial in which prosecutors accused the children’s grief author and mother of three of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl.
Richins, 35, was found guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, fraud and forgery in a unanimous verdict.
Richins lowered her head as the judge read the verdict.
Richins‘ trial was expected to last through March 26 but concluded Monday with closing arguments. She did not testify at her trial, and her defense team rested without calling any witnesses.
Richins was arrested in May 2023, a little over a year after Eric Richins died in their home on March 4, 2022. She told investigators that she had made him a drink to mark her recent sale of a property for her real estate business and found him unresponsive in their bedroom.
Kouri and Eric Richins. via Facebook A medical examiner said
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