Trial begins for Utah mom accused of killing husband then writing a children’s book about grief

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A murder trial is set to begin Monday for a Utah mother of three who published a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of killing him.

Kouri Richins, 35, faces a slew of felony charges for allegedly killing her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl in March 2022 at their home just outside the ski town of Park City. Prosecutors say she slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a Moscow mule cocktail that he drank.