Grief Book Author Apparently Murdered Husband Because He Refused to Buy Awesome $2M Mansion


Previously: Woman Finally Killed Her Husband After Numerous Attempts, Then Wrote Grief Book

Well, I mean. I gotta be honest.

I don’t support killing your husband, but this is a pretty good reason to kill your husband.

I don’t know what it feels like to be a woman, but I do know that if I was a woman and my husband refused to buy me a $2 million house, I would at least consider poisoning him to death. Not saying I’d do it. But I understand.

New York Post:

The Utah woman who penned a book about grief after allegedly murdering her husband had fought with him over buying a multimillion-dollar estate — which she closed on the day after he died, according to newly revealed search warrants.

Accused murderer Kouri Richins, 33, was hellbent on buying the 22,000-square-foot unfinished home in Heber City — but husband Eric Richins refused to pay $2 million for it, according to docs obtained by KPCW.

Kouri Richins claims they were celebrating buying the home in March last year when her husband died from a massive overdose of fentanyl as their three kids slept upstairs.

However, the dead man’s family told investigators that he planned to tell his wife they were not buying the mansion — on the same day she was also told she was being cut out of Eric’s will, the warrants said.

Kouri Richins closed her $2 million deal to buy the estate on March 5 last year — the day after her husband died, the records show.

Kouri Richins promoting her book on local TV

That day, Eric Richins’ sisters also went to the couple’s current home, in Kamas just outside Park City, and “began threatening and verbally accosting Kouri,” according to a civil complaint obtained by Fox News.

“After Kouri insisted that the sister leave, the sister asserted that Kouri did not own the Family Home and that she would ensure Kouri was kicked out of the Family Home,” her attorneys alleged in the document.

The unfinished mansion that she bought — which also had a 3,000-square-foot guest house — was already contentious, with locals deeming it an eyesore and calling for it to be torn down.

The author bought it from a young widow who ditched plans to move there after her own husband died, according to TownLift.

“That place is cursed,” one person wrote on an Instagram post about the property’s tangled history.

After buying it for $2 million, Kouri Richins put it back on the market just two weeks later, trying to more than double her money by flipping it for nearly $5 million.

It is currently under contract for $3.75 million, realtor Mike Malmrose told KPCW.

Despite local objections, the listing calls it an “ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE” and a “PERFECT RETREAT” with “breathtaking, unobstructed mountain views.”

I mean, this is a nice, nice spot.

It’s a beautiful house on a beautiful piece of land.

Why would you not buy this? What the hell was wrong with this guy?

My sympathy for the murdered husband has basically disappeared.

He made a very bad call.

I’m not saying he necessarily deserved to die, but he made a very bad call.