In a listening to on whether or not or not Utah grief ebook writer Kouri Richins will stand trial within the demise of her husband, a forensics skilled revealed she had texted her alleged lover within the days main as much as what police imagine was homicide, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Richins is accused of killing Eric Richins with a fentanyl-laced Moscow mule on March 4, 2022.
Within the two days previous to her husband’s deadly overdose, Richins allegedly despatched textual content messages to Robert Grossman, digital forensic skilled Chris Kotrodimos testified in a Park Metropolis courtroom, the New York Submit reported.
Through the listening to, prosecutor Joe Hill requested Kotrodimos, “Across the time that Mr. Richins handed away, there have been ongoing messages between Mr. Grossman and Mrs. Richins?”
Kotrodimos answered, “Sure.”
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by the Day by day Mail, the day earlier than Eric Richins’ demise, the suspect messaged Grossman, writing, “Love you.”
Kotrodimos confirmed that Kouri Richins stored Grossman within the loop about her arrival time whereas she was driving to see somebody on Feb. 14, 2022 — which is the primary time she allegedly tried to poison her husband with a fentanyl-laced sandwich, prosecutors declare.
“She stated she was on her method to see him,” Kotrodimos stated. “He requested if she was about an hour away and he or she stated sure and despatched him a screenshot.”
Kotrodimos additionally claimed that Richins and Grossman began messaging in November 2021, and so they continued to take action after Eric Richins’ demise.
“The amount different relying on the day,” he stated, noting the 2 talked close to every day, together with talking on the cellphone.
Prosecutors stated investigators collected “loads of information” from Richins’ cellular phone between January and March 2022, which included her name logs, textual content messages and web search historical past.
Richins initially employed Grossman, a handyman, to renovate properties for her actual property firm.
The listening to for Kouri Richins, which kicked off on Aug. 26, is slated to final three days, with witnesses testifying to find out whether or not prosecutors have sufficient to attempt her for aggravated homicide and associated prices.
If convicted, the defendant may resist 25 years in jail.
Earlier within the listening to, Summit County Detective Jeff O’Driscoll testified that Richins’ housekeeper, Carmen Marie Lauber, allegedly had bought fentanyl to Richins on three completely different events — Feb. 11, Feb. 26 and March 9, 2022.
Prosecutors claimed Eric Richins started to suspect his spouse was dishonest on him and plotting to kill him, so she got here up with the flowery scheme.
Eric Richins had not too long ago modified his life insurance coverage coverage and reduce Kouri Richins out of his will, officers stated.
After Eric Richins’ demise, Kouri revealed the kids’s ebook Are You With Me? about dealing with grief.