SALT LAKE CITY—A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show.
Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in a small mountain town near Park City, according to charging documents.
The murder charges filed this week come months after Richins self-published “Are you with me?”—an illustrated storybook chronicling a young boy who wonders how his deceased father remains a presence in his life.
Prosecutors allege Richins called authorities in the middle of the night in March 2022 to report that her husband, Eric Richins, was “cold to the touch.” She told officers she had made her husband a mixed drink to celebrate him selling a multimillion-dollar home. She then went to soothe one of their children to sleep in the next bedroom. When she returned, she found her husband unresponsive, and she called 911, according to prosecutors….