UT - Kouri Richins, 33, Author, wife, mom, charged in husband’s “unexpected” death last year, May 2023-- MEDIA, MAPS, TIMELINE **NO DISCUSSION**

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https://www.abc4.com/richins/kouri-richins-new-trial-date-set-for-kamas-mom-accused-of-killing-her-husband/

6/14/25

In a pretrial conference on Friday, Judge Richard Mrazik, attorneys for the prosecution, and attorneys for Richins met to set a new jury trial date. Judge Mrazik confirmed that the stay on the trial has been lifted.

The jury selection has been set for Feb. 10 – 13, and 17 – 18 in 2026. The jury trial will commence Feb. 23 and run for five weeks, Monday through Thursday, until March 26, 2026.

 

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Kouri Richins murder trial reset for 2026, extended to 5 weeks

The Kamas mother of three will have been in jail almost three years by the time a jury hears her case.

www.kpcw.org

6/14/25

The afternoon of June 13, Richins’ defense attorneys told Mrazik they’d like six days to select jurors. The judge says his team will send questionnaires to 2,000 Summit County residents, and 240 can be called in for questioning.

The juror questioning, which attorneys call “voir dire,” will be Feb. 10 through Feb. 13, plus Feb. 17 and Feb. 18.

Utah requires a panel of eight, with four alternate jurors.

Defense attorney Kathy Nester says she proposed an extra week, stretching the trial to five weeks, in part because of prosecutors “massive” potential witness list. She says there are over 100 names.

 

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Accused murderer Kouri Richins facing new mortgage fraud, money laundering charges​

PARK CITY, Utah — Kouri Richins, who will go on trial next year for the murder of her husband, now faces over two dozen new charges that include mortgage fraud, forgery and money laundering.

The new charges below were filed Friday in a Summit County court:

• MORTGAGE FRAUD (5 charges)
• MONEY LAUNDERING (7)
• FORGERY (5)
• ISSUING A BAD CHECK (7)
• COMMUNICATIONS FRAUD (1)
• PATTERN OF UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY (1)

According to the charging documents, Richins used her power of attorney to take out a $250,000 Home Equity Line of Credit on the premarital home of her husband, Eric, without him knowing.

Richins allegedly formed her own LLC, K. Richins Realty, and used the money from the line of credit to fund the business.

When Eric Richins learned about the secret line of credit in October 2020, the charges claim Kouri replied that she would repay the loan. Despite Eric believing the line of credit had been paid off, it had not been when he was found dead in March 2022.


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Accused murderer Kouri Richins facing new mortgage fraud, money laundering charges

Kouri Richins, who will go on trial next year for the murder of her husband, now faces over two dozen new charges that include mortgage fraud, forgery and money laundering.

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Kouri Richins Seeking Jail Release After Star Witness Recants Claim He Provided Fentanyl Used to Kill Husband

Kouri Richins, 35, is asking the judge to reevaluate her bail and the conditions of her release based on the new development, which her lawyers say prosecutors withheld

people.com

10/3/25

• Kouri Richins, 35, is accused of murdering her husband Eric Richins, 39, by spiking his drink with fentanyl she allegedly obtained from their housekeeper Carmen Lauber
• The man prosecutors says supplied Lauber with fentanyl, Robert Crozier, recants that claim in an affidavit filed by Richins' defense team seeking her release from jail
• In his affidavit, Crozier claims that he recanted the claim in an interview with two members of the prosecution's office back in April, but the defense says they were not informed about this

 

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Kouri Richins attorneys asking court to let her out of jail after bombshell revelation

Kouri Richins asked the court to let her out of jail after a bombshell in the case.The attorneys for Richins, the Kamas mom accused of murdering her husband wit

kutv.com

10/2/25

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Kouri Richins asked the court to let her out of jail after a bombshell in the case.

The attorneys for Richins, the Kamas mom accused of murdering her husband with fentanyl in 2022, filed a motion on Thursday to reconsider bail in the case after a key witness said he never sold fentanyl to the woman accused of being Richins' drug dealer.

In an affidavit also filed on Thursday, Robert Crozier said he sold Carmen Lauber OxyContin pills, not fentanyl.

 

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Kouri Richins accuses family trust of paying witnesses in murder trial

Kouri Richins has asked a judge to force her sister-in-law to hand over records to see if she's been paying witnesses in the case.

www.courttv.com

10/12/25

A new motion filed by Kouri’s defense accuses Eric’s sister, Katie Richins-Benson, of failing to comply with a subpoena requesting financial records for The Eric Richins Living Trust, which Katie controls. Katie’s attorneys provided Kouri’s defense with some of the requested documentation but withheld much of it, claiming that Kouri has no right to the information.

 

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Judge rules against Kouri Richins' motion to reconsider bail

A judge ruled against Kouri Richins' motion to reconsider bail.The attorneys for Kouri, who is accused of murdering her husband with fentanyl in 2022, asked the

kutv.com

11/18/25

Judge Richard Mrazik, however, said Crozier's retraction "does not render his former statement inadmissible."

"A reasonable jury could choose to credit Mr. Crozier's statements to detectives in May 2023 over his statements in September 2025 given that they were made two years closer in time to the events in question," he said in the court document.

Additionally, Judge Mrazik said that Kouri failed to address the other evidence that she had a motive to kill Eric.

"Mr. Crozier's recent recantation does not affect the weight of that evidence at all," he said.