Overview
- Judge Richard Mrazik in Park City on Wednesday ordered Kouri Richins to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering her husband, Eric Richins.
- An eight-person jury in March convicted her of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder tied to an earlier poisoning attempt, insurance fraud, and forgery.
- The medical examiner found about five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in Eric’s system, and jurors heard from a housecleaner who said she sold pills to Richins under an immunity deal.
- Victim impact statements read in court said the couple’s three sons fear their mother’s release, and the boys are now being raised by their father’s family.
- Richins maintains her innocence and will appeal, and she still faces more than two dozen separate financial crime charges that have not yet gone to trial.