Utah author of children’s book on grief charged with murdering her husband

Kouri Richins allegedly poisoned her husband and the father of her three children, Eric, with fentanyl slipped into a drink

A Utah woman who recently published a children’s book on losing a parent has been charged with murdering her husband, the father of her three children.

Kouri Richins, 33, of Kamas, Utah, a town outside Salt Lake City, allegedly poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl slipped into a drink, according to authorities. Eric had five times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his body when he died on 4 March 2022, investigators have said.