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.

www.fox13now.com

 

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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.

 

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1/7/26​

LIVE: Kouri Richins Pre Trial Hearing​

 

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Judge blocks domestic violence expert, closes next hearing in Kouri Richins case

A judge barred a domestic violence expert in the Kouri Richins case and closed day two of evidentiary hearings to the public.

www.courttv.com

 

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https://www.abc4.com/richins/attorneys-meet-ahead-richins-hearings/

Jan 2, 2026

At today’s pretrial conference, the defense and prosecution discussed upcoming deadlines and how witnesses would testify at the trial. A two-day evidentiary hearing is scheduled on Jan. 7 and 8, where the court will review evidence and motions for the upcoming jury trial.

According to Judge Richard Mrazik, as of Dec. 30, 1,486 jury questionnaires have been completed in Summit County. An additional 345 have been sent but have not been responded to, and those potential jurors are being notified again on Friday to complete those questionnaires.


The last major development in the case happened in October, when an affidavit showed that Robert Crozier, a key witness, recanted statements he made to authorities in 2023 about selling fentanyl to a friend of Richins, who authorities say gave it to Richins. Authorities allege that Richins used that fentanyl to poison her husband. Crozier now says that he sold Richins’ friend Oxycontin — not fentanyl.

Jeremy Deus, a Utah defense attorney told ABC4 News, that development will be a significant factor during trial.

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On Friday, Kathy Nester and Wendy Lewis, Richins’ attorneys, discussed potential plans to file motions ahead of and following the motion hearings. Judge Mrazik told them to review the docket and ensure that everything they want to file is in ahead of next week’s hearings.

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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During a hearing on Monday, Judge Richard Mrazik denied the Kouri Richins’ motion for a change of venue, and jury selection is scheduled to begin on Feb. 10. The trial will begin on Feb. 23 and will conclude by March 26.

https://www.abc4.com/richins/judge-denies-change-of-venue-kouri-richins-again/

 

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Jury selection begins for Kouri Richins, grief book author accused of fatally poisoning her husband

Kouri Richins allegedly poisoned her husband Eric by putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in his drink, leading to his sudden death in 2022.

www.cbsnews.com

2/10/26

CBS affiliate KUTV reported that potential jurors were asked to respond to a 23-page questionnaire containing 99 questions, including inquiries about where they get their news, what TV they watch, and what organizations they support. Nathan Evershed, a former prosecutor who is not affiliated with the case, said the document is "about as long as I've ever seen." Many of the questions are routine, he said, but some are case-specific.

"When they started getting into opinions about the case, when they started getting into backgrounds of connections with victim rights organizations, social media accounts, these things, you can see they're really trying to get granular on this," Evershed told KUTV. "Tell us about what you listen to. Tell us about social media. Tell us about very specific opinions on very specific things."

Jury selection is scheduled to take five days, KUTV reported. Richins' trial is set to begin on Monday, February 23.

 

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Jury selection to begin in murder trial of Utah mom accused of fatally poisoning husband with fentanyl

The 35-year-old mom of three wrote and self-published a children's book on grieving following her husband's death.

abcnews.com

2/10/26

Jury selection is set to begin on Tuesday in the murder trial of Kouri Richins, a Utah mom accused of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl.

The charges in the case also allege she murdered her husband for financial gain as she "stood on the precipice of total financial collapse." According to the charging document, at the time of Eric Richins' death, her realty company owed lenders at least $1.8 million and his estate was worth approximately $5 million.

She has not yet entered a plea to those charges.

 

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Judge, attorneys prepare to seat jury in Kouri Richins murder trial

Jury selection for the highly anticipated Summit County court case begins Tuesday.

www.kpcw.org

2/9/26

They’re searching for eight jurors and four alternates for the five-week trial scheduled to begin Feb. 23.

Last week, the parties dismissed most of the roughly 1,700 respondents to a jury questionnaire based on their written responses.

Those remaining will answer questions over video conferencing, since Judge Richard Mrazik denied both sides’ request to conduct the process called “voir dire” in person.

Most recently, Mrazik also denied the defense team’s second request to move the trial to Salt Lake County. He wasn’t persuaded by their argument that, based on the jury questionnaire, an impartial panel of jurors can’t be found in Summit County.

 

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Jury selection begins for Kouri Richins, Utah woman accused of poisoning husband

After years of national attention, the Kouri Richins murder case is moving into its next phase.

kutv.com

2/10/26

The selection process includes striking jurors for cause, meaning they are dismissed due to clear conflicts or limitations.

“Meaning if there’s a scheduling issue or it’s just a blatant, like you have a hearing loss or a blatant bias, you know someone involved in the case, you’ll be struck, and you’ll be released to go home,” Ruth said.

Beyond that, each side is also given a limited number of strikes set by the judge.

“There’s a lot going into the selection process, not just of, is this a non-biased juror? But they’re thinking small group dynamics,” Ruth said. “A good prosecutor is going to be looking to get a group of humans together that looks like they could be cohesive in their decision-making. Whereas defense is going to look for people that might be willing to stand on their own a little and challenge the norms.”

Ruth said the five-day timeline is typical for jury selection in a case of this size.

If the court cannot find an ideal jury within that window, the options are limited.

“They have to choose from who they’ve got. So that’s the way our court system is,” Ruth said.

The murder trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 23.

 

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Kouri Richins, Utah mom accused of poisoning hubby — then writing a children’s book about his death — goes on trial

The Utah mom accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule — then writing a children’s book on how to grieve — headed to trial with the start of jury selection …

nypost.com

2/10/26

Jury selection is expected to take up to two weeks with opening statements currently set for Feb. 23. The trial could last up to five weeks.

 

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Jury selection begins for grief book author accused of poisoning husband

Kouri Richins allegedly poisoned her husband Eric by putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in his drink, leading to his sudden death in 2022.

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2/10/26

Richins' attorneys have tried to get the trial moved out of her community, arguing that the 35-year-old could not get a fair trial where the vast majority of potential jurors knew about the case, but the judge denied a change of venue. CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi said she wasn't surprised by the decision and said that while "this is a sensationalized case" with "national attention," prosecutors should be able to assemble an impartial jury.

"It is highly unlikely that all of these jurors that are going to be seated haven't read about it, but it is not unlikely that they can find at least eight jurors, four alternates, that can remain fair and impartial," Polisi said.

 

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