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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Children’s Author Convicted in Husband’s Fentanyl Murder

The FOX True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.7826 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A Utah jury has convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband with fentanyl after prosecutors said she killed him for money—then later wrote a children’s book about grief to help their kids cope. She is facing 25 years to life in prison and will face sentencing in May. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Gianjolosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. She wrote a children's book about grief

0:35.7

after the death of her husband, but now a Utah

0:37.8

jury says she's the one responsible for his death. Jurors deliberated for just over three hours before

0:43.2

finding Corey Richens guilty of first degree aggravated murder and other charges in the 2022 death of her

0:48.9

39-year-old husband Eric. It was a three-week trial where prosecutors painted the 35-year-old

0:53.5

mother of three as an

0:54.7

egotistical social climber who slipped a fatal dose of fentanyl into her husband's Moscow mule,

0:59.8

with plans to inherit $4 million after his death, pay off a debt from a failed home-flipping

1:04.5

business, and start a new life with her lover. She was also found guilty of trying to poison Eric

1:08.8

a month earlier on Valentine's Day with a fentanyl-laced

1:11.7

sandwich that made him break out in hives and blackout. Richens then wrote a children's book called

1:17.2

Are You With Me, a year after the poisoning to help her sons process their loss. Richens will be

1:22.1

sentenced in May. There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime

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