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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Two weeks after Eric died, Kouri put the home was back up online with an asking price of about $4.8 million, and now there’s a buyer.

Realtor Mike Malmrose has been the property’s listing agent since at least March 2022, before Summit County authorities made the murder investigation public. He confirmed the mansion is now under contract. The asking price is $3.75 million.

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If the buyer doesn’t close, Malmrose said he “doesn’t know what the plan B would be.” But he indicated a couple other buyers were interested.

That would be good news for Kouri, who retained not only criminal defense attorney Skye Lazaro but also bankruptcy attorney Austin Nate.

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Kouri Richins’ detention hearing, which was scheduled for Friday, May 19, was postponed due to amended charges which included new insights into the case.
New revelations on Kouri Richins’ alleged motives for murder; Hearing postponed



5/18/2023

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Kouri Richins’ detention hearing, which was scheduled for Friday, May 19, was postponed due to amended charges which included new insights into the case.

Richins was charged on May 8 with criminal homicide, aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, second-degree felonies, and one possession of a controlled substance. The last charge was amended May 18 to include intent to distribute.

Her amended charges included all new information on the events leading up to the murder of Kouri’s husband, Eric Richins. Her detention hearing has been postponed to June 12.
 

5.18.2023

New filings in the trial of Kouri Richins for her husband Eric's murder reveal more about the life insurance policies she stood to benefit from, and the will that she didn’t.​

New court filings indicate Kouri Richins learned two days after her husband’s death she was not named in his will.

On March 6, 2022, after Eric died from a fentanyl overdose, Kouri hired a locksmith to drill her husband’s safe. The new filings by the prosecution claim it held over $100,000 cash.

It was then that Eric’s sister told Kouri she was the trustee, suggesting Kouri had no right to get into the safe. Eric made his sister, not Kouri, the beneficiary of his $500,000 personal life insurance policy without his wife’s knowledge.

Prosecutors say Kouri was “enraged,” and punched her sister-in-law in response. She was subsequently charged with assault and pleaded no contest to a class B misdemeanor.

The new filings do not mention whether the assault happened during the gathering she held at the family home after Eric’s death, as is described in search warrants police obtained during the investigation.
 

5/18/2023

Hearing for Utah author accused of murder postponed​

  • Kouri Richins was arrested for allegedly killing husband by lacing drink
  • Richins then wrote a children's book about grief
  • A judge will decide soon if she can be released on bond

(NewsNation) — A detention hearing for a Utah woman accused of killing her husband has been postponed.

Kouri Richins was scheduled to appear in front of a judge to see if she can be released on bond, but her lawyer has pushed for more time in the latest development in a case that has shocked the nation.

The Richins’ family home has been deadly quiet for the past few weeks. In the remote, upper class neighborhood surrounded by mountains, a lone package addressed to Richins sat on the front step, an indication of how quickly the family’s lives were turned upside down.

Richins is accused of killing her husband before writing a children’s book about helping kids cope with grief.

“He was 39. It took us all by shock. We have three little boys, 10 9 and 6, and we kind of, my kids and I kind of wrote this book about the different emotions and grieving processes that we’ve experienced last year,” Richins said in an interview promoting her book.
 
Today’s scheduled detention hearing has been continued to June 12th @ 8:30am.
 

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5/18/2023

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Kouri Richins’ detention hearing, which was scheduled for Friday, May 19, was postponed due to amended charges which included new insights into the case.

Richins was charged on May 8 with criminal homicide, aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, second-degree felonies, and one possession of a controlled substance. The last charge was amended May 18 to include intent to distribute.

Her amended charges included all new information on the events leading up to the murder of Kouri’s husband, Eric Richins. Her detention hearing has been postponed to June 12.
 
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Prosecutors say Kouri Richins bought four life insurance policies for her husband without his knowledge in the years preceding his death.
Prosecutors: Children's book author accused of killing husband changed life insurance policies



5.18.2023

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested for killing him had made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before when she is accused of fatally poisoning him, according to charging documents updated Thursday.

The additional allegations, which were previously mentioned in search warrants but not the charging documents, led to the postponement of a detention hearing scheduled for Friday that would have been the first time Kouri Richins was in court since her case became the latest true crime sensation earlier this month. The hearing has been rescheduled for June 12.
 

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