An American girl who wrote a kids’s guide on dealing with grief after her husband’s loss of life final 12 months has been accused of poisoning him with a deadly dose of fentanyl, a extremely potent artificial opioid drug primarily used as an analgesic. Kouri Richins, 33, was arrested Monday on expenses of aggravated homicide and three counts of possession of a managed substance with intent to distribute, US broadcaster NBC News reported.

Eric Richins died close to Salt Lake Metropolis in Utah on March 4 final 12 months. Police responded after his spouse known as ‘911’ to report she discovered him unresponsive of their bed room, based on a possible trigger assertion.

A courtroom doc stated that earlier than her husband’s loss of life, the suspect had requested an acquaintance for one thing sturdy – ‘among the Michael Jackson stuff’ – the outlet reported. The acquaintance bought dozens of fentanyl drugs for her, the doc confirmed.

The accused later printed a guide ‘Are You With Me?’ to ‘create peace and luxury for youngsters who’ve misplaced a beloved one’, based on an outline on Amazon. It stated the guide will assist reassure kids that though their beloved one ‘just isn’t current, their presence all the time exist they usually stroll by way of life with you as in the event that they had been right here’.

Richins devoted the guide to ‘my superb husband and a beautiful father’. It has been faraway from Amazon.

“It took us all by shock. My youngsters and I sort of wrote this guide on the totally different feelings and grieving processes that we skilled final 12 months, hoping that it will probably sort of assist different youngsters take care of this and discover happiness a way or one other,” she had informed KTVX.