Overview
- Jurors deliberated for roughly three hours before convicting Richins of aggravated murder and multiple controlled‑substance distribution counts.
- An autopsy concluded Eric Richins died from an oral fentanyl overdose with levels about five times a lethal dose.
- Investigators traced the drug supply to a known associate who, according to court records, bought 15–30 fentanyl pills in Ogden on February 26, 2022, and provided them to Richins.
- Digital evidence showed phone activity and deleted messages during a period when Richins said she was asleep, and prosecutors detailed an earlier suspected poisoning on February 14.
- Sentencing is scheduled for May 13, and Richins faces a possible life term as the case drew wider attention after she later published a children’s book on grief.