Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that he drank. They say Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed that if her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million. They also say she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side.
Defendant Kouri Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed she would inherit her husband Eric Richins' estate worth more than $4 million when he died, prosecutors said during closing arguments in her murder trial.
"She wanted to leave Eric Richins but did not want to leave his money," said Summit County prosecutor Brad Bloodworth.
