Utah writer Kouri Richins tried altering husband’s life insurance coverage coverage earlier than lethal poisoning

The Utah lady accused of killing her husband by serving him a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule then authoring a kids’s guide about grief had tried altering his life insurance coverage coverage to make herself a beneficiary, data present.

Kouri Richins, 33, allegedly tried to call herself the beneficiary of her 39-year-old husband Eric’s life insurance coverage coverage as an alternative of his sister shortly earlier than his March 2022 demise, FOX 13 Salt Lake City reported.

Nevertheless, the insurance coverage agency alerted Eric to the change in time for him to reverse it, in accordance with the outlet, which cited search warrant paperwork.

Eric Richins — who shared three sons with Kouri who’re all underneath 11 — in the end eliminated his spouse from the need altogether, however by no means instructed her, KUTV reported.

Tensions have since flared between Richins and her husband’s household.

Richins allegedly assaulted her sister-in-law throughout a celebration she hosted simply at some point after Eric’s demise “the place she was consuming and celebrating,” in accordance with earlier stories.

And each side have spent the previous a number of months in court docket over Eric’s $3.6 million property, FOX 13 reported.

His relations, together with the sister named Richins’ beneficiary, instructed police Kouri had an alleged historical past of violence, and previous makes an attempt to poison Eric – a lot so he had warned them “if something occurred to him she was responsible,” the warrant reportedly states.  

Kouri is accused of poisoning her husband with roughly 5 instances the lethal dose of fentanyl contained in the household’s Kamas, Utah house on March 3, 2022.

Police have been referred to as to the Willow Court docket house simply after 3:20 a.m. March 4, and arrived to seek out Richins’ physique “on the ground on the foot of his mattress.” He was pronounced useless on the scene.

Kouri Richins allegedly instructed police she and her husband have been celebrating that night time as a result of she had bought a home. She made him a Moscow Mule vodka drink and introduced it to him of their bed room, court docket data present.

She “said she went to mattress and shortly after went to sleep with one of many kids within the little one’s bed room as a result of that the kid was having an evening terror,” the doc states.

Richins instructed police she awoke round 3 a.m. and returned to her and her husband’s bed room.

“She felt Eric and he was chilly to the contact.”

She went on to put in writing a children’s book about grief, “Are You With Me?” which was launched a 12 months after Eric’s demise.

Police later unearthed Richins’ alleged connection to an accused drug vendor who admitted to promoting her fentanyl drugs, which she allegedly stated she was shopping for “for an investor who had a again damage.”

Two weeks later, she allegedly requested the vendor for stronger fentanyl drugs – “among the Michael Jackson stuff,” the warrant states.

Police stated she positioned two $900 orders for fentanyl drugs.

Investigators additionally found Richins lied about her mobile phone use within the hours earlier than she found his demise, police stated.

Richins had allegedly tried poisoning her husband up to now.

Eric Richins instructed a pal he thought Kouri was making an attempt to poison him after he bought sick following a Feb. 14, 2022, Valentine’s Day dinner at their house, the doc states.

He had an identical incident throughout a global journey years earlier, KUTV reported.

The warrant reportedly states: “In line with a sister, Eric and his spouse went to Greece a number of years in the past and after his spouse gave him a drink he turned violently sick and referred to as his sister saying he believed his spouse had tried to kill him.”

Richins has been charged with  first-degree aggravated homicide and a number of counts of second-degree possession of a managed substance with intent to distribute, data present.

She is due in court docket on Could 19.

With Yaron Steinbuch