Overview
- Sentencing is set for May 13, 2026, when Richins could receive life imprisonment.
- Jurors also found her guilty of falsification and fraudulently seeking about $2 million in life‑insurance benefits tied to her financial distress.
- Investigators said she dissolved fentanyl in a Moscow Mule served to Eric Richins, with an autopsy showing roughly five times a lethal dose.
- Prosecutors described an earlier failed poisoning on Valentine’s Day 2022 and cited phone searches on lethal fentanyl doses and deleting data to establish planning.
- A nurse who allegedly supplied the fentanyl testified for the state, and Richins still faces 26 separate financial‑crime charges that have not yet gone to trial.