Overview
- Richins received life without parole Wednesday after a Utah judge called her "too dangerous to be free."
- Prosecutors said she slipped the synthetic opioid fentanyl into her husband's cocktail at five times a lethal dose after an earlier failed sandwich poisoning.
- Letters from the couple's sons, read by their psychologists in court, said they fear their mother and want her to stay in prison.
- The state argued she gained about $4 million in inheritance and about $2 million in life insurance and that she forged real-estate documents soon after the death.
- Richins has denied the murder, addressed her children in court, and says she will appeal.