The family of Eric Richins is speaking out about their longtime suspicions of his wife Kouri Richin’s involvement in his death. It comes as investigators look into the couple’s troubled relationship and financial disagreements. @ErinNBCNews reports. pic.twitter.com/z37N624xXs

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) May 11, 2023

Previously: Woman Finally Killed Her Husband After Numerous Attempts, Then Wrote Grief Book

Well, I mean. I gotta be honest.

I don’t support killing your husband, but this is a pretty good reason to kill your husband.

I don’t know what it feels like to be a woman, but I do know that if I was a woman and my husband refused to buy me a $2 million house, I would at least consider poisoning him to death. Not saying I’d do it. But I understand.

New York Post:

The Utah woman who penned a book about grief after allegedly murdering her husband had fought with him over buying a multimillion-dollar estate — which she closed on the day after he died, according to newly revealed search warrants.

Accused murderer Kouri Richins, 33, was hellbent on buying the 22,000-square-foot unfinished home in Heber City — but husband Eric Richins refused to pay $2 million for it, according to docs obtained by KPCW.

Kouri Richins claims they were celebrating buying the home in March last year when her husband died from a massive overdose of fentanyl as their three kids slept upstairs.

However, the dead man’s family told investigators that he planned to tell his wife they were not buying the mansion — on the same day she was also told she was being cut out of Eric’s will, the warrants said.

Kouri Richins closed her $2 million deal to buy the estate on March 5 last year — the day after her husband died, the records show.

Kouri Richins promoting her book on local TV

That day, Eric Richins’ sisters also went to the couple’s current home, in Kamas just outside Park City, and “began threatening and verbally accosting Kouri,” according to a civil complaint obtained by Fox News.

“After Kouri insisted that the sister leave, the sister asserted that Kouri did not own the Family Home and that she would ensure Kouri was kicked out of the Family Home,” her attorneys alleged in the document.

The unfinished mansion that she bought — which also had a 3,000-square-foot guest house — was already contentious, with locals deeming it an eyesore and calling for it to be torn down.

The author bought it from a young widow who ditched plans to move there after her own husband died, according to TownLift.

“That place is cursed,” one person wrote on an Instagram post about the property’s tangled history.

After buying it for $2 million, Kouri Richins put it back on the market just two weeks later, trying to more than double her money by flipping it for nearly $5 million.

It is currently under contract for $3.75 million, realtor Mike Malmrose told KPCW.

Despite local objections, the listing calls it an “ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE” and a “PERFECT RETREAT” with “breathtaking, unobstructed mountain views.”

I mean, this is a nice, nice spot.

It’s a beautiful house on a beautiful piece of land.

Why would you not buy this? What the hell was wrong with this guy?

My sympathy for the murdered husband has basically disappeared.

He made a very bad call.

I’m not saying he necessarily deserved to die, but he made a very bad call.

Kouri Richins wrote a book on processing grief after her husband died and is now accused of murdering him. “Good Things Utah” host @suraechinn interviewed Richins a month before her arrest and tells @TVAshleigh the news is “shocking.”

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— NewsNation (@NewsNation) May 10, 2023

Kouri Richins wrote a children’s book on grief after she allegedly murdered her husband last year by poisoning him. One time the married couple went on a trip to Greece when Eric became violently ill. This scared him and he would remember later on down the road.

Kouri tried to… pic.twitter.com/gRLgRiWQIx

— Rose (@901Lulu) May 9, 2023

#KouriRichins #EricRichins documents with probable cause. #truecrime pic.twitter.com/CXOIVaWgTq

— Juliet (@JJ00702642478) May 9, 2023

Again, this is just basic female behavior.

They cry out in pain as they strike you.

New York Post:

A Utah widow who penned a grief book for children in the wake of her husband’s death has been charged with his murder, authorities said.

Mom of three Kouri Darden Richins, 33, of Summit County, was arrested Monday for allegedly poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, at their home on Willow Court in Kamas on March 4, 2022, KUTV reported,

Kouri and Eric Richins

She is charged with first-degree aggravated murder and three counts of second-degree possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, officials said.

Police arrived at their home about 3:20 a.m. on the night of Eric’s death to find him lying at the foot of the bed.

“Life-saving measures were attempted, but Eric was declared deceased,” according to documents cited by KSL-TV.

Kouri allegedly told police she had made her husband a mixed vodka drink, a Moscow Mule, and served it to him in bed to celebrate his sale of a home for her business.

She told investigators she then fell asleep with one of their kids who was having a nightmare.

“(Kouri) said she awoke around 3 a.m. and came back to her and Eric’s bedroom. She felt Eric, and he was cold to the touch. That is when the defendant called 911,” the documents state.

She told police she left her cellphone in the couple’s bedroom, but phone records show that the device had been used multiple times in the child’s bedroom.

“In addition, tolls on the defendant’s phone show that messages were sent and received during that time. These messages were deleted,” according to court documents, KSL-TV reported.

An autopsy found that Eric died of an oral overdose of fentanyl — with a level in his system that was five times the lethal dosage, according to the medical examiner.

The couple seemingly had issues long before Eric’s death. One of his two sisters told investigators that he called her from a vacation in Greece with his wife years earlier claiming that she made him a drink that made him violently ill, according to records viewed by National Public Radio affiliate KPCW.

The sister alleged that Eric believed Kouri had tried to kill him at the time.

Eric had held a joint life insurance policy with his business partner Cody Wright that his wife had unsuccessfully tried to change in January 2022, the outlet reported.

Kouri allegedly attempted to make herself the sole beneficiary of the policy, but the insurance company notified the men of the change and they were able to fix it.

Eric then removed Kouri from his will and replaced her with his sister. He did not inform Kouri of the change because — according to his sisters — he believed she might “kill him for the money,” which he wanted to go to his children, the outlet reported.

On Feb. 14, 2022, the couple had a Valentine’s Day dinner in which Eric “became very ill,” a probable cause statement cited by KUTV states. Eric broke out in hives, couldn’t breathe and passed out after using his son’s EpiPen and taking Benadryl.

“Eric believed that he had been poisoned. Eric told a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him,” it says.

Kouri later wrote the picture book “Are You With Me?” to help kids cope with the death of a loved one and appeared on a local TV station to promote it.

The book was published March 5, almost a year to the day after Eric’s death.

According to the book description on Amazon, it was “written to create peace and comfort for children who have lost a loved one. It’s to reassure children that although your loved one is not present, their presence always exist and they walk through life with you as if they were here.”

In the book, Kouri wrote: “Dedicated to my amazing husband and a wonderful father.”

There are probably hundreds of cases a year where women kill their husbands and never get charged.

Poison is the murder weapon of choice for women. This is for the obvious physical reasons, but it’s also because it’s so easy to deny if you are making yourself look like the victim.

Just imagine the callousness of making money by grieving the man you murdered. Then remember: your wife would do this to you and feel nothing if for some reason she got the urge to do so.

Women don’t feel guilt. Their brains don’t generate those chemicals.