Kouri Richins murder trial enters third week with prosecutors calling more witnesses

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — State prosecutors are expected to call on more witnesses as the murder trial against Kouri Richins enters its third week.

Richins, 35, faces charges of aggravated murder in the death of her husband, Eric Richins, in 2022. Prosecutors claim Richins poisoned her husband’s drink using a lethal dose of fentanyl before later writing a children’s book on how to deal with grief.

The five-week murder trial started on Monday, Feb. 23, with defense attorneys fighting back on that claim, arguing Eric Richins used substances such as marijuana gummies and hydrocodone to handle chronic pain.

So far through the trial, state prosecutors have called several key witnesses, including Richins’s former housekeeper, who allegedly sold her the illicit drugs, her longtime friends and key investigators in the case.

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Experts have presented Kouri Richins’s financial records, text messages and long phone calls after Eric Richins’s death and web searches on Kouri Richins’s phone.

State Attorney Brad Bloodworth indicated his team could be nearing the end of its case against Kouri Richins, telling Judge Richard Mrazike the state plans to rest at some point this week with only a few more witnesses left on the list.

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