Woman who wrote children’s book on grief after husband's death gets life sentence for poisoning him

A Utah woman who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in his death after poisoning him with fentanyl, prosecutors said. Kouri Richins, 35, slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that her husband, Eric Richins, drank in March 2022 at their home outside the ski town of Park City, according to prosecutors. They said she was US$4.5 million in debt and falsely believed that when her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million, according to legal documents. “A person convicted of those things is simply too dangerous to ever be free,” Judge Richard Mrazi said when handing down the sentence. Richins’ sentencing took place on May 13, the day her husband would have turned 44. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/11847172/kouri-richins-grief-book-author-murder-sentencing/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@globalnews.ca?lang=en #GlobalNews