Richins, 33, is charged with aggravated murder and three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute following the death of her husband, Eric Richins, last March 4.
He was found unresponsive in the bedroom of their home in Kamas, about 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, after she made him a Moscow Mule to celebrate a business deal.
An autopsy and a toxicology report found that he died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a probable cause statement.
Prosecutors said Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into the cocktail.
A year after his death, she published a book about grief titled “Are You With Me?” to “create peace and comfort for children who have lost a loved one,” according to a description on Amazon.
She dedicated the book to “my amazing husband and a wonderful father.” It has since been removed from Amazon.
The court document filed Thursday alleged that in September 2020, Eric Richins found out that his wife had obtained and spent a $250,000 home equity line of credit on their home in Kamas, had withdrawn at least $100,000 from his bank accounts, and spent more than $30,000 on his credit cards.
Richins is also accused of appropriating distributions made from her husband’s business “for the purpose of making federal and state quarterly tax payments and not paying the taxes,” the document alleged.
The stolen tax payments totaled at least $134,346, it said.
Eric Richins confronted his wife about the money and she agreed to pay him back, according to the document.
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