A Children's Grief Author on Trial... for Murdering the Father of her Children
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Opening statements begin Monday for a 35 year old mother of three, Kouri Richins, who is charged with fatally poisoning her husband. Eric Richins was found with more than 5 times the lethal amount of fentanyl in his system in March of 2022. Kouri Richins was arrested for his murder within weeks of publishing a book about helping kids deal with the sudden loss of a parent, called “Are You With Me.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:12.9 | Hey, the folks, it is Saturday, February 21st, and a trial is starting on Monday, |
| 0:19.7 | that true crime enthusiasts and internet detectives have been waiting for years on. |
| 0:25.8 | It's the case of an author who wrote a children's book to help kids deal with the death of a parent. |
| 0:33.3 | She wrote the book, Police say, after she killed her own husband. |
| 0:40.2 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:43.0 | Killed her own husband, who happened to be the father of her children. |
| 0:46.1 | And just to throw in a little more, she did it. |
| 0:48.3 | And the motive was money and another man. |
| 0:52.0 | Ropes, this story has everything. |
| 0:53.4 | It really does. And it reads like a true crime novel, and yes, they say within weeks of her |
| 1:00.0 | publishing this book on helping children deal with grief of the loss of a parent. She was |
| 1:08.3 | charged with taking a parent away from her own child. It really is, I mean, |
| 1:15.1 | that is something where truth is stranger than fiction. What do you think about the title of the book? |
| 1:20.7 | Knowing this now with all the context, because I was very curious, you were the one that |
| 1:24.6 | brought this story to my attention, that it was coming up on Monday. And I first thought was, what was the book title? What do you think of it? |
| 1:30.0 | The book title is, are you with me? And so it's talking about the spirit or the, I don't want to say ghost, but just the energy of a loved one still with you from above, looking down as an angel, I guess. |
| 1:43.7 | I believe that was kind of the through line. |
| 1:46.7 | But that is pretty creepy if you're the one who now is charged with making someone an angel |
| 1:54.7 | by killing them viciously. |
| 1:57.0 | And this book was published in 2003. |
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