Convicted husband killer Kouri Richins was so hellbent on taking down her foes from behind bars that she enlisted her household to smear the lead cop in her Utah homicide case, prosecutors revealed.
Richins — the 35-year-old Kamas mom who fatally poisoned husband Eric Richins — tried to launch false felony, civil and public accusations towards Eric’s household and regulation enforcement even after she was arrested, based on papers filed by prosecutors forward of her Wednesday sentencing.
Whereas the failed house flipper was languishing behind bars awaiting trial, she had her household accuse Summit county prosecutors and the chief prosecutor of misconduct in complaints to the Utah bar and “publish a ‘homosexual relationship profile’ of the lead detective on-line,” prosecutors claimed within the submitting.
A slew of latest accusations towards Kouri had been revealed because the workplace requested a choose to condemn her to life in jail with out the potential of parole on the grounds she was “irredeemable.”
Choose Richard Mrazik granted the request and threw the ebook at Kouri after an hours-long listening to the place Eric’s household and Eric and Kouri’s sons pleaded with a choose to by no means let her go free once more.
Kouri additionally delivered a blubbering speech claiming she didn’t homicide Eric and reciting platitudes to her three sons — who weren’t current within the courtroom however whose statements had been learn by social employees.
From contained in the slammer, Kouri wrote a letter to her mother instructing her to launch pictures to the press of the younger kids of Eric’s sister, Katie Richins-Benson. She additionally wrote within the letter “carry me house after which we’ll get these rattling b—hes,” in an alleged reference to Eric’s two sisters.
Kouri then claimed she wrote the letter as a part of a novel she was writing from jail after she was confronted with it, prosecutors claimed.
Kouri additionally tried to get Katie criminally investigated and filed a false report with little one companies towards her sister-in-law, the submitting alleged.
Kouri additionally reported Eric’s different sister, Amy Richins, for allegedly having pot, the courtroom papers claimed.
And she or he requested her household to launch felony gun expenses towards Eric’s dad, Gene Richins, after he eliminated a gun from her household house for “safekeeping,” prosecutors claimed.
Earlier than her arrest and simply days after Kouri killed Eric, by lacing his Moscow Mule cocktail with fentanyl, she “throat punched” Amy, the submitting charged.
And Kouri additionally tried to falsely smear Eric’s identify after he died, accusing him of getting an affair with a coworker and sleeping with one other man, one in all his greatest buddies, the papers alleged.
She additionally made “an unfounded felony criticism to the FBI about Eric Richins’ enterprise accomplice,” the submitting claimed.
“The defendant can not test her ambition,” prosecutors wrote. “Or her sense of entitlement. When confronted, she lies. When she feels aggrieved, she assaults. And she or he actually feels aggrieved; she at all times has.”
At Kouri’s Wednesday sentencing, her legal professionals mentioned she ought to obtain the lightest sentence doable of 25 years to life in jail as they claimed prosecutors’ sentencing papers had been a “character assassination” of Kouri.
It was additionally first revealed within the sentencing papers that Kouri’s sons had been fearful of her and didn’t ever need her to get out.
Kouri was convicted in March of placing 5 occasions the deadly dose of fentanyl into Eric’s drink on March 4, 2022. She unsuccessfully tried to kill him two weeks earlier by lacing his sandwich with the identical drug.
Kouri was motivated by her misinformed perception that she would inherit Eric’s $4 million property to assist her clear her actual property enterprise money owed and permit her to start out a brand new life along with her handyman lover.
She wasn’t arrested till a 12 months later and after she wrote a kids’s grief ebook to assist her sons course of the lack of their dad, entitled “Are You With Me?”
Kouri went on native TV and radio stations to advertise the ebook simply months earlier than she was cuffed.
She has maintained her innocence and mentioned she plans to attraction. Her legal professionals didn’t instantly return a request for remark Friday morning.
