US EditionClosing Arguments Set in Trial of Utah Children’s Book Author Charged with Killing Her Husband
Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins administered a fentanyl overdose to her husband for financial gain, with insurance claims totaling about $2 million, trial closing arguments underway.
- On Monday, legal teams begin closing arguments after the defense waived testimony last week in the Utah trial of Kouri Richins.
- Prosecutors say Richins was $4.5 million in debt and opened life insurance policies totaling about $2 million while texts and searches showed fantasies of wealth and leaving her husband.
- Prosecutors detail the alleged poisonings and earlier attempt, alleging Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that killed Eric Richins in March 2022 at their home just outside Park City and earlier tried to poison him with a fentanyl-laced sandwich.
- A conviction on aggravated murder would carry 25 years to life, but Richins' defense attorneys argue prosecutors failed to prove guilt after the multiweek trial.
- Defense lawyers attacked the credibility of the prosecution's star witness Carmen Lauber, noting she initially denied dealing fentanyl and later changed her account after investigators informed her of the cause of death.
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Kouri Richins, 35 years old, was burdened with debts: for this reason he designed the diabolical plan to poison him with the opiate. Yesterday the sentence. The sentence in May. The argument of the pm: "Thinked of appearance and wealth"
The woman poisoned her husband with five lethal doses of fentanyl, which she incorporated into a cocktail.
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