Utah writer Kouri Richins fought with hubby she’s accused of murdering over shopping for $2M mansion: docs

The Utah lady who penned a guide about grief after allegedly murdering her husband had fought with him over shopping for a long-contentious multi-million-dollar property — which she closed on the day after he died, based on newly revealed search warrants.

Accused assassin Kouri Richins, 33, was hellbent on shopping for the 22,000-square-foot unfinished house in Heber Metropolis — however husband Eric Richins refused to pay $2 million for it, based on docs obtained by KPCW.

Kouri Richins claims they had been celebrating shopping for the house in March final 12 months when her husband died from an enormous overdose of fentanyl as their three children slept upstairs.

Nevertheless, the useless man’s household informed investigators that he deliberate to inform his spouse they weren’t shopping for the mansion — on the identical day she was additionally informed she was being cut out of Eric’s will, the warrants stated.

Kouri Richins closed her $2 million deal to purchase the property on March 5 final 12 months — the day after her husband died, the information present.

That day, Eric Richins’ sisters additionally went to the couple’s present house, in Kamas simply outdoors Park Metropolis, and “started threatening and verbally accosting Kouri,” based on a civil criticism obtained by Fox News.

“After Kouri insisted that the sister go away, the sister asserted that Kouri didn’t personal the Household House and that she would guarantee Kouri was kicked out of the Household House,” her attorneys alleged within the doc.

The unfinished mansion that she purchased — which additionally had a 3,000-square-foot visitor home — was already contentious, with locals deeming it an eyesore and calling for it to be torn down.

The writer purchased it from a younger widow who ditched plans to maneuver there after her personal husband died, based on TownLift.

“That place is cursed,” one particular person wrote on an Instagram post concerning the property’s tangled historical past.

After shopping for it for $2 million, Kouri Richins put it again available on the market simply two weeks later, making an attempt to greater than double her cash by flipping it for practically $5 million.

It’s at present below contract for $3.75 million, realtor Mike Malmrose informed KPCW.

Regardless of native objections, the itemizing calls it an “ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE” and a “PERFECT RETREAT” with “breathtaking, unobstructed mountain views.”

“Create your paradise, full with a butler’s pantry, swimming pool, remedy pool, train room, golf simulator, full-size, indoor volleyball courtroom, climbing rock wall, two commons rooms, two kitchens, and even a room devoted for digital actuality experiences!” it gushes.

“The 8 bedrooms, with adjoining loos, can sleep as much as 60 folks for these enterprise retreats or household reunions. What’s extra, this property additionally contains an ADDITIONAL 3,600 sq. foot, three bed room/three rest room caretaker’s house.”

Malmrose, the realtor, stated he “doesn’t know what the plan B can be” if the present purchaser in contract pulls out. Nevertheless, he stated others have proven curiosity.

Kouri Richins was busted two months after she appeared on TV to promote her youngsters’s guide, “Are You With Me?” about making an attempt to assist her children by way of the grief of shedding their dad.

Prosecutors allege she served her husband a Moscow Mule laced with roughly 5 instances the deadly dose of fentanyl. She claimed she’d gone to sleep in one among their children’ rooms and woke to search out her husband useless.

Police later unearthed Richins’ alleged connection to an accused drug seller who admitted to promoting her fentanyl drugs.

The accused killer allegedly went again for stronger ones, asking for “a few of the Michael Jackson stuff,” the warrant states.

The widow is charged with first-degree aggravated homicide and a number of counts of second-degree possession of a managed substance with intent to distribute, information present. She is due in courtroom on Could 19.