Prosecutors say a Kamas woman charged with murdering her husband wrote a letter in jail outlining false testimony she wants her mother and brother to present in her trial.
PARK CITY — Prosecutors say a letter written by Kouri Richins, a Kamas woman charged with killing her husband, asks her mother and brother to give false testimony at her trial.
Richins, 33, is charged with aggravated murder, a first-degree felony. Charging documents say she administered a fatal dose of fentanyl to her husband, Eric Richins, 39. She was not charged until over a year after her husband's death on March 4, 2022. During that year, she wrote and published a children's book about dealing with grief., ruling that there is "substantial evidence" to support the aggravated murder charge.
"A year prior to Eric's death, Ronney was over watching football one Sunday and Eric and Ronney were chatting about Eric's Mexico trips. Eric told Ronney he gets pain pills and fentanyl from Mexico from the workers at the ranch," the letter states. "Not to tell me because I would get mad because I always said he just gets high every night and won't help take care of the kids.
"Eric never wanted anyone to know he had an issue especially get caught, he always wanted Kouri to go down for him. When they traveled, Eric would put his drugs in Kouri's bag at the airlines right before they boarded," the letter says. Prosecutors said it is unclear whether Kouri Richins had passed this letter to her mother or anyone else, but said during a video conference Wednesday, Kouri Richins held up a separate letter for her mother to read.
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