Utah Mother Who Wrote Book on Grieving Death of Husband Now Charged With His Murder

Kouri Richins at the KPCW studio in Park City, Utah, on April 12, 2023. KPCW.org via AP

SALT LAKE CITY—After her husband died last year, she wrote a children’s book on grief. Now she’s charged with his murder.

Kouri Richins was arrested on Monday in Utah and is accused in charging documents of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in Kamas, a small mountain town near Park City.