A widow and mother of three who wrote to mourning book for children after husband’s deathwas accused of his own homocide. The news caused a sensation.
Kouri Darden Richins, 33 years old, of Summit County, Utah, was arrested Monday on suspicion of murdering her husband Eric Richinson March 4, 2022, reported KTV extension.
How would she kill her husband?
The woman is accused first degree aggravated homicide AND three counts of second-degree substance possession controlled with the intention of distributing it, the authorities expanded.
It happens that the police suspect Richins she poisoned her husband. An autopsy found that Eric died of a oral overdose of fentanylwith a level in his system that was five times the lethal dose, according to the coroner.
Upon arriving home at 3 a.m. on the night of Eric’s death, officers found the victim lying at the foot of the bed.
“Life-saving measures were attempted, but Eric was pronounced dead,” the documents cited by specify KSL-TV.
He told police he left his cell phone in the couple’s bedroom, but phone records show it it had been used several times in the child’s room.
“There is also evidence that messages were sent and received during that time. And then cancelled,” according to court records.
A third person in case
Police obtained a search warrant for the mother’s phone and computers and found several communications between you and an “unidentified acquaintance”.
On May 2, investigators reportedly interviewed that individual, who He was facing multiple possession charges. of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, and more drug-related allegations.
The post suggests that Kouri requested “prescription of painkillers to an investor” between December 2021 and February 2022.
“He told this person to leave the pills at a house the defendant was buying in Midway, Utah. (The acquaintance) left the pills at home and the defendant gave them delivered cashor,” states the documentation to which the television medium has had access.
On February 14, 2022, the couple had a Valentine’s dinner in which Eric “became very ill”.
“Eric thought he was poisoned. Also he confessed to a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him”, he admits.
The acquaintance told investigators that Kouri later said her alleged investor wanted “something stronger and asked for ‘a little bit of the Michael Jackson thing'”especially fentanyl, reports the news.
On February 26, 2022, the knowledge obtained from 15 to 30 fentanyl pills by a dealer in Ogden, Utah, and sold them to Kouri at his home for $900.
Author of a book on mourning
Paradoxes of life, in this case sinister, Kouri later wrote to Picture book to help children cope with the death of a loved one. He even appeared on a local TV channel to promote it.
He book entitled “Are you with me?” was released on March 5, nearly a year after the death of Eric, to whom she’d been married for nine years.
Amazon describes the book as “written to create peace and comfort for the children. To reassure children that even if their loved one isn’t there, their presence is always there and they go through life with you as if they were here.”
But there is more, as the work contains the following sentence: “Dedicated to my amazing husband and wonderful father.”
“Eric has done absolutely everything in his power to provide his family with every possible opportunity to learn, grow and have fun,” they chose as the obituary line.
Source: Clarin
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