After you slip a deadly lemon into hubby's drink, make lemonade
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A mother-of-three who wrote a children's book on grief to help her sons deal with their father's death has been charged with his murder.
Kouri Richins was arrested on Monday in Utah and is accused of poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl at their home in Kamas, a small mountain town near Park City.
A medical examiner said they found five times the legal dose of fentanyl - a painkiller 100 times stronger than morphine - in Eric's system after he died in March last year.
Richins allegedly told police she had made Eric a mixed vodka drink to celebrate him selling a home and then went to soothe one of their three children to sleep in their bedroom. She later returned and found him 'cold to touch' before calling 911.
Following his death, Richins wrote 'Are you with me?' - a picture book she wrote to help children cope after the death of a loved one. But two months after she appeared on a local television station to promote the book, Richins has been charged with Eric's murder.
… Two months ago, Richins promoted her children's book on local TV and told a segment called 'Good Things Utah' that she had written it to help her three boys deal with the grief of losing their father.
She called her husband's death unexpected and described how it sent her and her three boys reeling.
For children, Richins said, grieving was about 'making sure that their spirit is always alive in your home.'
'It's - you know - explaining to my kid just because he's not present here with us physically, doesn't mean his presence isn't here with us,' she told the anchors, who commended her for being an amazing mother.
Sounds like she’ll have plenty of free time to work on a sequel.
