Jury Sees Life Story Kouri Richins Wrote At Sedona Retreat w/ Best Friend

Allie Staking and Kouri Richins were best friends before Richins was arrested and accused of murdering her husband by slipping a lethal dose of fentanyl into his cocktail in their home in Kamas, Utah. Staking testified in Richins' murder trial today (Thursday, March 5, day 9). This is her direct-exam with Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth. You can watch her cross-exam with Wendy Lewis here:    • Defense Asks Kouri Richins' Friend About T...   00:52 "Since junior high school, about how often do you see or speak with her?" "I talk to her pretty frequently." "Are you one of her best friends?" "Yes, yeah, I was, yeah." "You were?" "I am." 01:31 Sedona, Arizona retreat: "As part of that retreat, did each of you complete an assignment in which you wrote your life story in third person?" "Yes." 02:18 Defense: "I'm not sure that there's enough foundation at this point to put it in through this witness, she said she'd never saw it at the time, and I don't know if there's enough foundation." 03:09 "Are you generally familiar, though, with her handwriting, script wise?" "Not comfortable enough to identify it, no, but it looks like her handwriting." 04:25 "Ma'am, are you familiar with Kouri Richins' house-flipping business?" "Yes." "How so?" "We were going to hire her to do work for us, me and my kid's dad." "And did you understand it was a successful business?" "I did. I believed it to be, yes." "Did you know whether or not the business was in any financial distress?" "No, I did not." 05:21 Josh Grossman: "What did Kouri say about him?" "She said that they were having an affair." "And when did she tell you this?" "It was about June 2020." 05:58 "My last visit, prior to Eric passing, she told me that they had she had ended things with Josh and chose her family. It had been over for about nine months." 07:00 "Did there come a time when you Kouri Richins, Eric Richins and maybe others were having a conversation about Eric Richins becoming ill on Valentine's Day?" "Yes." 07:51 "He said that he thought that Kouri had tried to poison him, but it was more of a funny story. It was like an allergic reaction, is what we had thought it was." "Did Eric jokingly say that Kouri Richins had tried to?" "Yes." "And we all teased Kouri for trying to kill him or poison him." 11:18 writing from retreat displayed Background: Kouri Richins, 35, is accused of fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl at their home in Kamas, Utah, in March 2022. After he died, she self-published a children's book she authored titled "Are You With Me?" about coping with grief. Eric Richins, 39, was found dead in their home on March 4, 2022. Prosecutors allege Kouri dropped a lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow Mule cocktail she prepared for him. They say she was motivated by money because she owed nearly $5 million to lenders and had changed her husband's life insurance policies prior to his death while also taking out a home equity line of credit without his knowledge. She also was in a romantic relationship with another man. Her defense is that her husband died of a self-inflicted overdose and his family pressured police to implicate her. You can watch the prosecution's opening statement here    • Greed & Lust Drove Kouri Richins To Poison...   and the defense opening statement here:    • Defense Says Kouri Richins' Husband Overdo...   Prosecutors allege she previously tried to murder him by poisoning his sandwich on Valentine's Day 2022, which her husband told a friend about. Richins' criminal charges in Summit County, Utah, include aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery and insurance fraud. Her trial is scheduled to last five weeks. Judge Richard Mrazik in Utah's 3rd Judicial District is presiding at the Silver Summit Justice Center near Park City. ****************************************************************************** Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com...