Poison Is Queen
And in questionable circumstances news:
A Utah woman was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children’s book about coping with grief.
Today’s word is ballsy.
Prosecutors said [Kouri Richins] was $4.5m in debt and falsely believed that when her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4m. They also said she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side.
Richins was also convicted of other felonies, including an attempted murder charge in what authorities alleged was another effort to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him black out.
Apparently, the house cleaner was scoring the pills.
The internet search history from Richins’ phone included “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl,” “luxury prisons for the rich America” and “if someone is poisned (sic) what does it go down on the death certificate as,” a digital forensic analyst testified.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Now she can write one about coping with prison.
Just going to leave this here.
For no reason whatsoever.
Ballsy but a bit thick.
Livia would never have left an internet search history.
They only catch the incompetent ones…
I mean, it’s practically, “Dear Internet, how do I get away with murdering my husband? Thanks in advance, Kouri.”
I’m curious about that $4.5 million in debt. Was it directly hers or theirs or was it attached to some company she owned? How was it leveraged/structured? Who was it owed to? How does someone this incompetent acquire that much debt? Did her husband know about it? Of course it being a Guardian article no one would think to ask such questions.
To be fair it looks like she was coping really well.