Lawyers for a woman accused of killing her husband by slipping him five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail and later writing a book to help children grieve the loss of parents was denied bail.
The Utah mother of three who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death, and was laterhim, will remain in jail for the duration of her trial on murder and drug charges, a judge said Monday.
Monday’s detention hearing offered both prosecutors and Richins’ attorneys a chance to preview their cases and provide contrasting theories of the case. Prosecutors called to the stand a detective, a private investigator and a forensic accountant who painted a picture of Richins as having calculatingly plotted to kill her husband, making financial arrangements and purchasing drugs found in his system after his March 2022 death.
While a handcuffed Richins shook her head in defiance, prosecutors questioned the detective about the housekeeper who claims to have sold her fentanyl weeks before it was found in her husband’s system and the family’s "bug out bags" full of emergency provisions and passports they suggested made her a flight risk unsuitable for bail.
"One or two pills might be accident. Twenty — or five times the lethal dose — is not accidental. That is a lot. That is someone who wanted Eric dead," Summit County Chief Prosecutor Patricia Cassell said.
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