Overview
- Kouri Richins, sentenced Thursday in a Utah court, received life in prison without parole following a March jury verdict that found her guilty of murder and related charges.
- Prosecutors said she served her husband a Moscow Mule spiked with fentanyl, and an autopsy found about five times a lethal dose in his system.
- Investigators described a financial motive that included large debts, plans to collect on life insurance, and efforts to access her husband's assets.
- The case also featured an alleged earlier poisoning try on Valentine’s Day, plus evidence of phone searches about fatal fentanyl doses and how to hide a poisoning on a death certificate, as well as a grief book she published that prosecutors cited.
- Statements from the couple’s three sons asked the court for a life term, and her attorneys said they will appeal the conviction.