The Grief Book and the Poisoned Cocktail - The case of Kouri Richins
Today’s episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we’ve covered so far: a woman who wrote a children’s grief book after her husband’s death, then was later convicted of murdering him.
Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022.
At first, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving widow trying to help her children process the loss of their father. But investigators uncovered a very different story involving financial pressure, life insurance, forged documents, a prior poisoning attempt, and a marriage where Eric had reportedly feared his wife was trying to kill him.
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In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, the Utah grief-book author convicted of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl.
After Eric died in 2022, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving widow and later promoted a children’s book about grief inspired by her sons’ loss.
But the investigation uncovered a darker story involving financial pressure, life insurance, forged documents, a previous poisoning attempt, and questions about how someone can turn a death they caused into part of their public identity.
Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses murder, poisoning, fentanyl, family trauma, grief, and children affected by parental death.
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