Kouri Richins: The Grief Book Trial Is Over — Guilty on All Counts, Life Without Parole

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Some cases turn on one detail the whole country remembers. For Kouri Richins, it was a children's book. After her husband Eric died in March 2022 — prosecutors said from a fentanyl-laced Moscow mule, roughly five times a lethal dose — Kouri published Are You with Me?, a grief book for kids, dedicated to Eric. Then she was arrested and charged with his murder.

Jurors heard about a Valentine's Day poisoning attempt weeks earlier, two insurance fraud counts, a forgery count, millions in debt, and a housekeeper who testified she sold Kouri the pills. The defense called no witnesses. In March 2026, the jury convicted her on every count, and in May she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. A judge has since denied her bid for a new trial, and a civil court has ordered her to pay Eric's family $55 million.

Kouri still maintains her innocence and is appealing. But here's our juror question: when a jury deliberates only about three hours on a case this layered — did the book do what no witness could?

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