ユタ州の母親、コーリ・リチンズ被告は、2022年に夫をフェンタニル入りの飲み物で殺害した罪により、水曜日に仮釈放なしの終身刑を言い渡された。判決は、生きていればエリック・リチンズさんの44歳の誕生日となる日に下された。
ユタ州地方裁判所の裁判官は、3月に加重殺人、殺人未遂、保険金詐欺、文書偽造などの罪で有罪評決を受けたリチンズ被告に対し、判決を言い渡した。検察側は、同被告がパークシティ近郊の自宅で、致死量の5倍近いフェンタニルを混入させたモスコミュールを夫に飲ませたと主張した。裁判官は、被告を二度と社会に解き放つには危険すぎる人物だと評し、犯行の動機が保険金と不動産取引による金銭的利益であったことを指摘した。
Kouri Richins, the children's book writer who penned a grief story after her spouse's death, was handed a life sentence without parole this week for his murder. A Utah court convicted her of lacing Eric Richins's drink with a massive fentanyl dose in March 2022.
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Kouri Richins was sentenced last week to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2022 murder of her husband.
A Norfolk jury convicted Kristie Lynch, 46, of first-degree murder in September 2025 for killing her disabled lodger, Jose Moreno, 45. On Friday, Norfolk Circuit Court Judge David Lannetti sentenced her to 25 years in prison, matching the term her husband James Lynch, 53, received for his role in the crime. Prosecutors described the attack as one of the most heinous murders imaginable.
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Taylor Santiago, a 31-year-old mother from Aurora, Missouri, was sentenced to life without parole plus 40 years in Arkansas on Monday for capital murder and attempted capital murder. The sentence follows her earlier life term in Missouri for killing one of her children's fathers. The attacks in January 2025 targeted the fathers of her two children and one of their partners.