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Kouri Richins was also convicted of trying to murder her husband on Valentine’s Day 2022 – ten days after that insurance policy went into effect. Eric Richins called two friends that day and said he felt like he was going to die after eating a sandwich his wife gave him, according to charging documents.
Within weeks, he was dead.
At trial, prosecutors emphasized evidence they said demonstrated Kouri Richins’ guilty conscience after her husband’s death, including search history from her cellphone that showed queries about women’s prisons in Utah, remotely deleting cell phone data and life insurance payments.
The searches included: “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl (sic),” “kouri richins kamas net worth,” and “if someone is poisned (sic) what does it go down on the death certificate as.”
Prosecutors argued that, amid the criminal investigation, Kouri Richins tried to deflect attention away from herself by publishing a children’s book about a year after her husband’s fatal overdose. Kouri Richins said she authored the picture book – titled “Are You With Me?” – to help her three young sons navigate the loss of their father.
“Just because he’s not present here with us physically, that doesn’t mean his presence isn’t here with us,” Richins said while promoting the book on a local news program in April 2023, weeks before her arrest. “Dad is still here. It’s just in a different way.”