Jury begins deliberations in Richins murder trial
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By Seth Ratliff
Published on March 16, 2026.
The trial of Utah mother Kouri Richins, accused of murdering her husband, Eric Richins and writing a children's book about coping with grief, has concluded with closing arguments in the high-profile murder trial. The state alleges that Richins was motivated by financial issues, control over her husband's $4 million estate, and an affair with Robert Josh Grossman. The prosecution alleges that Kouri siphoned $250,000 from Eric's accounts to fund her own failed business ventures to leave him. If convicted of aggravated murder, Kouri faces a potential sentence of life in prison. The defense portrayed Kouri as a caring mother and attempted to discredit the prosecution's star witness, Carmen Lauper, who claimed to have sold Kouri the drugs.
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