Woman who wrote a book about grief after husband died, has been charged for his murder.
According to US broadcaster NBC News, Kouri Richins has been accused of murdering her husband after writing a children’s book on coping with grief.
She wrote a children’s book, “Are You With Me?” about navigating grief after the loss of a loved one and published it a year after the husband died.
“How’d you become a children’s book author?” The answer for Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three who wrote Are You With Me?, a children’s book about coping with grief, is that she allegedly poisoned her husband, then wrote… https://t.co/VR1Ith2otI
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On March 4 of last year, Eric Richins passed away in Utah close to Salt Lake City, she allegedly poisoned him with a deadly dose of the potent synthetic opioid narcotic fentanyl.
According to a probable cause statement, the police were summoned when his wife dialed 911 to report that she had discovered him motionless in their bedroom.
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The startling change of events has left the community dealing with the loss of a valued member and attempting to reconcile the accusations made against Kouri, who was previously thought of as a heartbroken widow trying to find consolation in her writing.
CNN reports that in a search warrant affidavit from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Kouri Richins attempted to modify a life insurance policy she had jointly purchased with her husband’s business partner two months prior to his passing to make herself the only beneficiary.
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