She's Finally in Prison For What She Did // The Kouri Richins Murder Story

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So this woman killed her husband and wrote a children's book about it. Now, the woman's name is Kouri, and Kouri's around 29 when this story starts, and she's living in Utah. And I told you Kouri's story a few years back, but since then there have been some updates on it. Now, here's the thing about Kouri. She's a real estate agent who's really into flipping houses, but unfortunately, her business isn't doing too well. She's in quite a bit of debt, debt that her husband doesn't know about yet, and she's willing to do just about anything to get some money to pay that debt off. So one day she gets an idea: why not just start stealing from her husband? Now, her husband is this guy, Eric, and Eric, he owns a stone masonry business, and he's doing pretty well financially, and he apparently doesn't share finances with his wife because, you know, she's terrible with money. I guess he's afraid she'll spend it all. So she starts stealing from him. She goes and she forges his signature and takes out a $250,000 equity loan on the family home, which he is the sole owner of. Not only that, but she begins withdrawing large sums of money from his business and personal accounts. Kouri also starts charging a bunch of things to his credit cards. So over the course of five to six years, all of this theft from her husband starts to add up to about half a million dollars. And if it couldn't get any worse, in 2020, she starts