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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41a8a925a64222d24b31d43478d11c72" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>Kouri Richins was in court in Park City, Utah, last week, in her continuing trial on allegations of poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal cocktail four years ago</strong> </p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-496ff1f5eb34aebb974a7a64e4f33532" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>Richins, 35, a realtor/ home flipper and mother-of-three from Utah allegedly, killed Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl mixed in his cocktail on March 3, 2022</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ed239957e95aa9c89a24e61ca730b99" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>After the jury heard testimonies of nearly 40 witnesses, five key points emerge for prosecution&#8217;s case</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-45ba12aad0cefb352ce58d6042496327" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>The housekeeper admitted to obtaining opiates at the request of Kouri Richins and handing the pills to her employer</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0e4af74a5ce160afb0876ba7507237dc" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>Mother-of-three was a long affair with a handy man on whom <strong>she splurged,</strong> as they were planning life together, after</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b07fdd0c7ee45996afbeb02067d2d198" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>Kouri and Eric&#8217;s nine-year marriage was seriously troubled, but Kouri only stayed because she dreaded financial insecurity </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dff3870558f5ffb779bf3d7551ae3368" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong>Contrary to her facade of a prosperous realtor, the home flipper was drowning in debt amounting to millions</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-647aa561fee83e54b16d889363c0c634" style="color:#2a0707;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Secret trove of photos show the widow partying with friends less than 48 hours of Eric&#8217;s death</strong></strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Kouri Richins, seen here in court in Park City, Utah, on Thursday, March 6, is on trial accused of killing her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022</strong></p>



<p>In damning photo evidence introduced at her murder trial, Kouri Richins is seen standing in the kitchen of the home that her husband&#8217;s body had been wheeled out of hours earlier. <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2023/05/11/utah-mom-and-author-accused-of-husbands-murder-fought-with-him-over-buying-2m-mansion-the-night-he-died-after-drinking-laced-cocktail-she-prepared/">Kouri Richins</a> leans against the counter, a huge grin across her face, while a woman in the background shotguns a can of beer &#8211; less than 48 hours after, her husband&#8217;s lifeless body had been taken to the morgue.<br>Over the last two weeks, jurors in the court in Salt Lake City, Utah listened to testimony in the Kouri Richins murder trial have listened to wide-ranging testimony about troubles in her marriage, her secret affair and the millions of dollars she owed in debt, factors prosecutors say led her to fatally poison her husband.<br>Richins, 35, a realtor/ home flipper and mother-of-three from Utah is on trial accused of killing her husband,<a href="https://konniemoments.com/2026/02/27/murder-trial-of-utah-woman-accused-of-killing-husband-with-poisoned-cocktail/"> Eric Richins</a>, with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. <br>Prosecutors said Kouri failed in a previous attempt to kill her husband of nine years, weeks before his death, by lacing his sandwich on Valentine’s Day, </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Kouri Richins and her husband Eric Richins, seen in an undated photo that Kouri Richins posted on social media in May 2023, were married for nine years and shared three children by the time Eric died. She succeeded in her second attempt to kill him &#8211; Prosecutors</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Poor optics: Kouri Richins leans against the counter, a huge grin across her face, while a woman in the background shotguns a can of beer, apparently partying, less than 48 hours after her estranged husband was found dead in their erstwhile matrimonial bed</strong></p>



<p>Testimonies of nearly 40 witnesses, including eyebrow raising revelations by some, including those of the housekeeper who allegedly gave Richins the drugs. <br>Friends have testified as to what knew about the couple’s marital problems. <br>Significant testimony has also been heard from the man with whom she was having an affair.<br>Experts in forensic accounting have submitted evidence that suggest that contrary to her facade of prosperity, the realtor turned house flipper was drowning in millions of dollars worth of accumulated debt.<br>“The evidence will prove that Kouri Richins murdered Eric for his money and to get a fresh start at life,” Brad Bloodworth, chief prosecutor in the Summit County Attorney’s Office, said in his opening statement. “More than anything, she wanted his money to perpetuate her facade of privileged affluence and success.”</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Kouri Richins has remained in custody since her arrest in May 2023. She has pled not guilty to the charges that she murdered her husband. The trial is ongoing</strong></p>



<p>Kouri Richins, all along has maintained her innocence as she pled not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges. However, if convicted of the most serious charge, she is facing a maximum of life in prison.<br>The defense argue that their client has been wrongfully blamed for Eric Richins’ death, besides, prosecutors are unable to prove how the fentanyl was introduced into the dead man&#8217;s body, they said. <br>“They’re going to spend weeks in this trial trying to convince you that Kouri had reasons to kill her husband, because they can’t show you that she did kill her husband,” defense attorney Kathy Nester said in her opening statement.<br>The prosecution is expected to conclude their case in the coming days, having elicited five milestone revelations from their witnesses on the stand that could yet prove decisive.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>“I do want a future together. I do want you. Figure life out together,” Kouri Richins texted Robert Josh Grossmann, [photo], roughly two weeks before her husband Eric died. Kouri Richins had a years-long affair wit Grossmann </strong></p>



<p>With star witness Robert Josh Grossmann, the man with whom Kouri Richins had a years-long affair on the stand, prosecutors displayed the affectionate text messages he exchanged with the defendant..<br>“I do want a future together. I do want you. Figure life out together,” Kouri Richins texted Grossmann roughly two weeks before her husband died. <br>“If he could just go away and you could just be here! Life would be so perfect!!! I love you,” she wrote.<br>According to Grossmann who worked on houses Kouri Richins bought for her real estate business, their relationship became romantic around early 2020. <br>She let him live in a home she was flipping, bought him two trucks and gave him money whenever he needed it, Grossmann said. He loved her, he testified, and believed she loved him, too.<br>Despite both acknowledging the idea was more fantasy than reality, the lovers in dozens of texts, expressed their love and dreamed about a shared future.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Despite images of a loving couple like this image posted on social media Kouri was a deeply emotional affair with Robert Grossmann. It&#8217;s been revealed that she let him live in a home she was flipping, bought him two trucks and gave him money whenever he needed it</strong></p>



<p>Grossmann and Richins planned a brunch date on March 4, 2022, to celebrate her closing on a valuable property. <br>The night before, he sent her a GIF of two people kissing with the caption, “love you” &#8211; hours later, Eric Richins was dead.<br>After Eric Richins died his widow and her lover together for several months. <br>About a month after her husband died, Kouri Richins texted Grossmann, “I think I want you to be my husband one day.” However, their relationship soon ended. <br>“Things changed after Eric passed,” Kouri appeared to be grieving after Eric died, Grossmann said.<br>Under cross-examination, by defense attorney Wendy Lewis, Grossmann testified that after his paramour was arrested in May 2023, he spoke with a private investigator hired by the late husband&#8217;s family. <br>The P.I., Grossmann said, told him Richins had killed her husband.<br>“I was blown away,” Grossmann said.<br>“and then I’m like, looking at everything in our past with a different set of goggles on, through different lenses. And I was trying to figure out if she did it.”<br>Grossmann said he told the investigator about a wide ranging conversation he had with Kouri Richins a couple of weeks after her husband&#8217;s death, in which they discussed dying, God, bow hunting and “supernatural stuff.” <br>In the course of that conversation, Kouri asked if he had killed anybody while serving in Iraq, wanting to know how he felt after.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Allison Wright, [photo], who is the wife of Eric Richins’ business partner, testified that Kouri Richins was only held back in her marriage by her fear of financial insecurity. She &#8220;feared what would happen&#8221; if she divorced her husband</strong></p>



<p>Several witnesses testified there were difficulties in the Richins’ relationship, with two of the defendant&#8217;s friends stating that she told them she felt “trapped” in her marriage, yet worried about financial security if she left the marriage abruptly.<br>One of friends, Allison Wright, who is married to Eric Richins’ business partner said, “She feared what would happen in divorce,” fretting the likely financial fallout.<br>“She felt like she was frustrated in the relationship but also it would be difficult to leave. Eric would end up financially secure and her the opposite.” <br>Another friend testified that Kouri Richins told her in December 2021, that she couldn’t see an “easy way forward out of the marriage.<br>“She said that, in many ways, it would be better if he were dead,” said Becky Lloyd.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Equally damning was the testimony of the defendant&#8217;s friend Becky Lloyd, [photo], who said Kouri Richins told that she could not see an &#8220;easy way forward out of&#8221; her marriage</strong></p>



<p>During cross-examination, Lloyd persisted with her testimony as she countered the the veracity of her testimony by the defense counsel suggesting she&#8217;d expressed uncertainty about what was said in the conversation. <br>“I don’t want to be here saying it,” she said, “but I know that that is what was said.”<br>The jury also heard two recordings of phone calls between Kouri Richins, her best friend and Eric Richins’ best friend.<br>“We were in a rocky spot two years ago,” Kouri Richins said of her marriage during one of those calls, which occurred about two weeks after her husband’s death.<br>Eric Richins’ friend then referenced Kouri Richins kicking her husband out of the house for a couple weeks after she learned he had been seeing another woman.<br>Two divorce attorneys testified they met with Eric and Kouri Richins individually in 2020 and 2021, respectively, although neither filed for divorce.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Forensic accounting results tendered as evidence show that financial records Richins submitted as part of four loan applications, included bank statements altered to falsely reflect a significantly healthier balance</strong></p>



<p>Prosecution have mentioned greed a s a possible part of the defendant&#8217;s motivation. <br>Richins’ friends said, appeared to be financially successful. However, a forensic accountant testified her business flipping homes was “imploding.”<br>“As of the date that Eric Richins died, Kouri Richins was in financial distress and her financial enterprise was collapsing, had been collapsing – and but for a significant infusion of cash and capital, would have continued to collapse,” said Brooke Karrington, who analyzed financial records in the case.<br>Kouri Richins’ debt problems began after she took out a $250,000 home equity line of credit, or HELOC, against their family home in 2019, around the same time she registered her real estate business, Karrington said. <br>The loan was taken out in her unwary husband’s name and signed by Kouri Richins as his attorney-in-fact, according to records displayed in court.<br>By the time Eric Richins died, Kouri Richins had taken out multiple loans and owed thousands in debt payments every week, so her bank account was “perpetually in the hole,” Karrington said. <br>Her net worth was negative $1.6 million the day after her husband’s death, according to the forensic analysis of her balance of transactions.<br>Eric Richins only discovered the negative financial engineering when after she was in a financial hole after receiving correspondence indicating he was in hook for a huge debt which he knew nothing about.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Paramedics arriving at the couple&#8217;s home on March 4, 2022, found the body of Eric Richins on the floor at the foot of his bed &#8211; limbs neatly arranged in straight lines which they testified was unusual in this type of case</strong></p>



<p>When Paramedics arrived at the home they found Eric lying at the foot of the bed in limbs straightened out which according to their testimony was unusual, because the limbs should have been at odd angles if he had rolled off the bed.<br>The defense also accused police of mishandling the crime scene, by not searching for TCHC laced gummies. Eric they said was dependent on THC gummies.<br>The ME however, testified that there was no evidence of THC in Eric&#8217;s body. Rather there was strong evidence of the anti-psychotic drug, quetiapine. Tha drug was prescribed for Kouri.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Carmen Lauber, [photo], a house cleaner who worked for the family, testified she sold opiate pills to Kouri Richins four times in early 2022, at the defendant’s request</strong></p>



<p>When Eric Richins was found dead on March 4, 2022, he had roughly five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, which led to speculations on how ingested that much<br>Carmen Lauber, a house cleaner who worked for Kouri Richins, testified she sold pills to Kouri Richins four times in early 2022 at the defendant’s request.<br>“She’d called me and asked me if I could reach out to somebody for some pain meds for an investor that she knew,” Lauber testified. She bought illicit opiate pills for Richins, who later asked for something stronger, the house cleaner testified.<br>Lauber got in touch with Robert Crozier, who said he had pills containing fentanyl, Lauber said. When she texted Richins about the fentanyl pills, Richins responded, “OK, go ahead and get them.” <br>Lauber testified she bought pills from Crozier at a gas station in Draper, Utah, twice before Eric Richins’ death and a third time shortly after.<br>Chris Kotrodimos, a digital forensics analyst, tendered geo-location data proving that Lauber and Crozier’s phones both pinged near the Draper gas station on February 11, February 26, and March 9, 2022.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Robert Crozier [photo], testified he gave pills to Carmen Lauber, a house cleaner who worked for the family, while insisting that he did not sell fentanyl in early 2022</strong></p>



<p>On the stand, Crozier confirmed he gave Lauber pills at the gas station, but insisted he did not sell fentanyl at the time of the poisoning.<br>In early 2022, Crozier was selling pharmaceutical oxycodone pills he received from people with prescriptions, he said, and didn’t start selling fentanyl until late that year.<br>Crozier had previously confirmed he sold Lauber fentanyl in a jailhouse interview with law enforcement during the investigation into Eric’s death. In footage of the interview shown in court, Crozier struggled to remember details about his interactions with Lauber and which drugs she asked for. But he said, “She knew what she was buying.”<br>“So, she knew that there was fentanyl in those pills?” an investigator asked.<br>“Absolutely,” Crozier said.<br>On the stand, Crozier said he didn’t remember that conversation.<br>“I was on a lot of drugs at that time, so I was detoxing from those drugs,” he testified.<br>Though he was called as a witness for the prosecution, Crozier’s testimony is key to Kouri Richins’ defense: <br>In her opening statement, Nester argued if Crozier only sold oxycodone as he now claims, his pills could not have killed Eric Richins. Robert Crozier had testified he gave Carmen Lauber pills but said he did not sell fentanyl in early 2022.<br>“The pills that were purchased by Carmen Lauber could not have been the cause of Eric’s death,” Nester told the jury. “The fentanyl must have come from somewhere else.”<br>Lauber who admitted to dealing and using drugs since sixth grade, same as Crozier were granted immunity in exchange for their truthful testimonies.<br>Attorneys on both sides tried to undercut Lauber and Crozier’s credibility by questioning their recollections, histories of drug use and inconsistencies between their testimonies and their previous statements.<br> The defense has suggested Lauber altered her story to fit the prosecution’s narrative.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Despite the deletion of huge chunks of data from Kouri Richins’ phone. Still analysis showed Kouri, [photo], researched fentanyl and life insurance payments before her husband&#8217;s demise</strong></p>



<p>Although lots of data from early 2022 was deleted from Kouri Richins’ phone, Kotrodimos testified about some of her cellphone activity around the time of her husband’s death.<br>Kouri Richins told investigators she left her cellphone in the master bedroom while she slept in her children’s bedroom the night her husband died and she called emergency services as soon as she returned to find him cold and unresponsive, according to court documents.<br>Kouri Richins’ cellphone was locked at 9:32 p.m. on March 3, 2022, and remained locked until 3:06 a.m. the next morning, according to Kotrodimos’ analysis. It moved 35 feet around 10:30 p.m. and then moved 243 feet at 3:08 a.m. The phone was unlocked six times in the 15 minutes before she called 911 at 3:21 a.m., he said.<br>Around 8:30 a.m., hours after she called 911, cellphone records show three GIFs were accessed on Kouri Richins’ phone: One was captioned, “Idiots. Idiots everywhere,” while another showed a woman wiping away her tears with dollar bills. A third included the caption, “I’m really rich.”<br>Kotrodimos testified he can’t determine who sent or received the GIFs, or if Kouri Richins even viewed them.<br>Kotrodimos showed the jury dozens of internet searches made on the phone Kouri Richins used beginning in April 2022, after her other phone was seized by law enforcement. The searches included queries about remotely deleting cellphone data, how investigators recover deleted messages, women’s prisons in Utah, and life insurance payments.<br>According to Kotrodimos, the searches included: “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl (sic),” “kouri richins kamas net worth,” and, “if someone is poisned (sic) what does it go down on the death certificate as.”<br>Kotrodimos testified the searches were all made after Kouri Richins knew she was under investigation, and he confirmed he couldn’t say with certainty who made the searches nor what prompted them.</p>

