Overview
- Handyman Robert Josh Grossman told jurors he had a months-long affair with Kouri Richins and that she asked him days after Eric Richins died if he had ever killed anyone.
- Grossman testified he answered that he had taken a life while serving in Iraq and described the exchange as an unusually heavy conversation.
- Jurors saw texts in which Richins and Grossman professed love, discussed marriage if she divorced, and a message from Richins saying life would be perfect if her husband would "go away."
- Prosecutors allege Richins slipped four times a lethal dose of fentanyl into Eric’s Moscow mule and previously tried to poison him on Valentine’s Day.
- Richins has pleaded not guilty as the defense argues Eric died from an accidental overdose tied to pain pills, while she faces nearly three dozen counts including aggravated murder carrying 25 years to life.