Kouri Richins threw huge celebration day after allegedly killing husband: report

The Mormon mother accused of killing her husband earlier than writing a ebook about grief allegedly threw an enormous celebration at her model new $2 million house the day after he died, in keeping with a report.

Kouri Richins, 33, invited pals to the 10-acre property for ingesting and celebrating March 4, 2022 — simply hours after she allegedly slipped her husband, 39-year-old Eric Richins, a deadly dose of fentanyl, court documents obtained by the Daily Mail show.

The celebration toasted Richins for closing in on the 22,000-square-foot unfinished house in Heber Metropolis earlier that very same day.

It was a property she had dreamed of flipping, however for which her husband refused to pay the hefty price tag.

The 2 had argued over the house — rumored by locals to be a cursed cash pit — within the weeks main as much as his demise.

Although his physique was discovered at 3 a.m. on March 4, a day after the poisoning, it wasn’t clear if the celebration goers knew he was useless.

Prosecutors imagine the Utah mom of three poisoned Eric in an try to get cash from his life insurance coverage coverage the identical day he instructed her they’d not be shopping for the mansion and that he was cutting her out of his will.

Richins had tried to call herself the only beneficiary on Eric’s coverage, however he had modified it again to his sister’s identify with out telling his spouse.

Richins allegedly mounted Eric a Moscow Mule later that night time that was laced with roughly 5 occasions the deadly dose of fentanyl.

When police arrived, she claimed she and Eric had been celebrating plans to buy the house earlier than she’d gone to sleep in certainly one of their youngsters’ rooms and woke to search out her husband useless.

The day of the celebration, Eric’s sisters reportedly went to the couple’s house base in Kamas simply outdoors Park Metropolis and “started threatening and verbally accosting Kouri.”

Richins put the mansion again in the marketplace simply two weeks later, making an attempt to greater than double her cash by flipping it for almost $5 million.

It’s at present underneath contract for $3.75 million.

Within the following yr, Richins wrote a youngsters’s ebook, “Are You With Me?” alongside along with her three youngsters which helped them take care of the lack of their father.

Eric had reportedly raised considerations that Richins had tried to kill him on no less than two different events — together with on Valentine’s Day lower than three weeks earlier than his loss of life.

He had warned his household that “if something occurred to him she was guilty,” in keeping with court docket data.

Eric additionally “had purpose to imagine” Richins was carrying out an affair all through their marriage, his household representatives have mentioned.

The slain husband stayed with Richins despite his numerous suspicions to spare their three sons from rising up in a damaged house.

Police later unearthed Richins’ alleged connection to an accused drug supplier who admitted to promoting her fentanyl capsules on a number of events.