Overview
- Kouri Richins was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, with the judge saying she is "simply too dangerous to ever be free."
- Jurors in March convicted her of aggravated murder after finding she slipped about five times a lethal dose of fentanyl into her husband's drink in 2022.
- They also found her guilty of attempting to poison him two weeks earlier with a fentanyl‑laced sandwich, along with insurance fraud and forgery.
- At the hearing, statements from the couple’s three sons said they would feel unsafe if she were freed, and the boys are now in their aunt’s care.
- Richins maintains her innocence, her lawyers plan an appeal, and she still faces a separate multi‑count financial‑crimes case and a restitution process.