Why Did Kouri Richins Tell Her Sons to 'Be Like’ The Dad She Murdered?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 17, 2026 · 1h 4m

Kouri Richins stood up in a Park City courtroom and spoke for forty minutes. She looked at her three sons and told them to "be like your dad." Eric Richins. The man she was convicted of poisoning with a lethal dose of fentanyl. The man whose forty-fourth birthday fell on the same day the judge sentenced her to life without the possibility of parole. She told her boys to emulate the father she took from them — and in the same breath, told them their memories of what happened in that house were "an absolute lie."Those boys couldn't speak for themselves. They're too young. Therapists read their…