Kouri Richins, who's charged with killing her husband, is now charged with witness tampering from her Utah jail cell.
, a mother of three who wrote a book about about coping with grief after losing her husband, was arrested in June in connection with Eric Richins death last year. Prosecutors alleged that Richins called authorities in the middle of the night in March 2022 to report that her husband was"cold to the touch" and unresponsive. He had five times the lethal dosage of fentanyl in his system, a medical examiner found.
"The letter instructs Lisa Darden to induce the Defendant's brother, Ronald Darden, who is Lisa Darden's son, to testify falsely in this matter," the court document states."The letter claims that defense counsel 'wants to link Eric [Richins] getting drugs and pills from Mexico' to the fentanyl that caused his death."
The letter also includes a section on mortgage relief and a request for teeth whitening strips, prosecutors said. Prosecutors asked the judge to bar Richins from contacting her mother and brother based on the contents of the letter. They wrote that it's unclear if the letter or its content ever made it to Lisa Darden or anyone else.
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