This mother published a children’s book about grief to help her three sons deal with the unexpected passing of their father … But now she’s accused of murdering him.
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00:00Corrie Richens, a mother of three who wrote a children's book to help her sons cope with their father's
00:05unexpected death, is now being accused of killing her husband with a deadly dose of fentanyl.
00:10Richens, who has now been charged with her late husband's murder,
00:13published a book titled, Are You With Me?, and promoted it on a local news channel in Salt Lake City.
00:19My husband passed away unexpectedly last year. It completely
00:23took us all by shock. Corrie even dedicated the book, which centered around how to navigate grief, to her amazing husband and a wonderful father.
00:31Court documents show that Eric Richens, Corrie's late husband,
00:35orally ingested five times the lethal dose of fentanyl before his death.
00:39Corrie is accused of making him an alcoholic cocktail that contained the deadly drug. Court documents also detail how Corrie
00:46contacted an unnamed acquaintance
00:48asking for some of the Michael Jackson stuff in reference to the fentanyl. Corrie was ultimately charged with aggravated murder and three counts of possession
00:56of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.