HER SONS BEGGED THE JUDGE TO KEEP HER IN PRISON FOREVER 😳
Newly revealed victim statements from Kouri Richins’ children are now sending shockwaves across true crime communities after the boys reportedly admitted they no longer feel safe around their own mother 🚨
But the most disturbing detail may be what one child allegedly said about “things happening before dad died.”
Investigators never fully explained that line in court. 👀
Would YOU want to hear the full statement?👇

A Utah mother wrote a book to help her children recover from their father’s death. Now her sons are asking that she be imprisoned for life

Mother of three Kouri Richins with her family before her husband’s deathFacebook/Kouri Richins

The sons of a Utah author who wrote a book about grief after the death of her husband — only to later be found guilty of killing him — have pleaded for their mother to receive a lengthy sentence, saying they would be “unsafe” if she were released.
Kouri Richins was convicted in March of aggravated murder for lacing her husband’s drink with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl at their home near Park City in 2022.
The case captivated America when Richins, a 35-year-old real-estate agent with a house-flipping business, was arrested in 2023 while promoting her children’s book Are You with Me? about a boy coping with the death of his father.
Prosecutors said Richins was millions of dollars in debt and planning a future with another man. She had opened numerous life-insurance policies on her husband Eric Richins without his knowledge and falsely believed she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million after he died.
Jurors in Park City also found Richins guilty of four other felonies, including attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich.
In a statement before her sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Richins’s sons, who were ages nine, seven and five when their father died, urged Judge Richard Mrazik to sentence her to life without parole.
Richins with her late husbandFacebook/Kouri Richins
The oldest child, now 13, said he wanted the court to know that he did not miss his mother and feared what would happen if she were to be released.
“I’m afraid if she gets out she will come after me and my brothers, my whole family,” the eldest son said. “I think she would come and take us and not do good things to us, like hurt us.”
Richins faces several decades to life in prison at her sentencing hearing on Wednesday, which falls on the day her husband would have turned 44. Her lawyers declined to comment before the hearing.
The middle child, now 11, told the judge he was sad that his father could no longer coach him in sports, celebrate his birthdays, take him camping and fishing, teach him to drive or attend his graduation. “With [her] in jail, I will be able to continue to feel safe and live a happy and successful life without fear of [her] hurting me or anyone I love,” his statement read.
The youngest, who was still in preschool when his father died, said he would be “so scared” if his mother was let out of prison. “Once she is gone I will feel happy and I will feel safer and relaxed and trust people more,” he said.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed Richins as a money-hungry killerRick Bowmer/AP
The most serious charge, aggravated murder, is punishable by 25 years to life in prison, or a life sentence without parole. Prosecutors did not push for the death penalty.
Prison time for the attempted aggravated murder charge depends on the severity of the bodily injury that occurred. After taking a bite of the sandwich his wife left for him Eric broke out in hives, injected himself with his son’s EpiPen, drank a bottle of Benadryl and passed out, prosecutors said.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed the mother of three as a money-hungry killer. They showed the jury text messages between Richins and her lover in which she fantasised about leaving her husband and gaining millions in a divorce.
Prosecutors also displayed the internet search history from Richins’s phone, which included queries about the lethal dose of fentanyl, luxury prisons and how poisoning is marked on a death certificate.