In keeping with a court docket submitting from final week, by way of Fox 13 Now, deputies discovered a handwritten, six-page observe from Richins to her mom Lisa, stuffed with directions on how her mother ought to get her brother Ronald to testify on her behalf. She hoped his testimony would throw suspicion onto her late husband himself, accusing him of going to Mexico to get medicine earlier than his dying, in keeping with prosecutors.

The letter reportedly started with the phrases “Stroll The Canine!!” on the prime in massive letters, although the remainder of the observe had nothing to do with any canines. As a substitute, in keeping with prosecutors, she claimed her legal professional Skye Lozaro “desires to hyperlink Eric getting medicine & drugs from Mexico,” telling her mother, “So we want some form of connection.”

“Here’s what I am pondering however you need to discuss to Ronney. He would in all probability should testify to this, however its tremendous brief not rather a lot to it. He might want to inform Skye on the assembly subsequent week,” she reportedly wrote, earlier than detailing what she allegedly needed her brother to inform her legal professional.

“A yr previous to Eric’s dying, Ronney was over watching soccer one Sunday and Eric and Ronney have been chatting about Eric’s Mexico journeys. Eric informed Ronney he will get ache drugs & fentanyl from Mexico from the employees on the ranch.”

She allegedly needed Ronney to say Eric informed him to not inform her in regards to the medicine “as a result of I might get mad as a result of I all the time mentioned he simply will get excessive each evening and will not assist handle the youngsters (there are footage in my telephone of Eric handed out on the ground or chair. Ronney ought to have texts from Eric speaking about getting excessive as nicely.”

She went on to allegedly say she needed her brother to testify Eric informed him he hid his medicine in an allergy tablet bottle in his work truck so no person would discover them, earlier than claiming Eric would disguise his medicine in Kouri’s bag anytime they traveled collectively “that approach in the event that they have been caught, Kouri received in bother, not him.” She additionally needed Ronney to say his sister “has by no means executed any kind of drugs, does not like them,” per prosecutors.

“*Reword this nevertheless he must, to make the purpose. Simply embrace all of it*” the letter allegedly learn. “The connection needs to be made with Mexico and medicines. Ronney could have the messages to show Eric confided in him about getting excessive. It may be brief and to the purpose, however needs to be executed.”

Kouri additionally reportedly wrote about her fears that her mother’s telephone and residential have been bugged, asking her mom to satisfy with Ronney in particular person. “Inform him I would like him to do that. Carry me residence after which we’ll get these rattling bitches!” she exclaimed, prosecutors declare.

Per Every day Beast, Kouri additionally allegedly gave directions on what some in her internal circle apparently being interviewed by Good Morning America ought to say about her husband.

She is alleged to have instructed her mother to inform one particular person to say Eric “would brag to her about how a lot he drank and did drugs in highschool,” in addition to the allegation about him placing medicine in Kouri’s suitcase earlier than journeys. Kouri can be mentioned to have instructed somebody to say her late husband’s sisters have been “jealous of me as a result of something they may do, Kouri might do higher.”

“The whole lot she had, they needed,” she allegedly needed somebody to say on GMA. “This comes right down to jealousy, cash, and Eric’s partying that they do not need to acknowledge and sadly an unintended overdose.”

Lastly, it’s claimed she requested her mother to purchase her a field of Crest White Strips that her lawyer might slip them to her throughout a go to. “I will be certain they cannot be present in my cell,” she wrote.

Within the submitting Friday, the State went on to say that in one other video convention together with her mother, Richins held up a distinct letter for her mom to learn — including they consider it was flushed or destroyed. Additionally they requested Richins haven’t any additional contact together with her mom or brother, believing the letters are examples of witness tampering.

Richins’ legal professional, nevertheless, mentioned the state violated a gag order across the case by submitting the letter, believing it might taint the jury pool.

Paramedics responded to the house of Eric and Kouri Richins on March 4, 2022 after getting a name about an unresponsive male. EMS tried to revive Eric, however he was pronounced lifeless on the scene. Kouri was later arrested and accused of killing her husband after allegedly procuring a deadly quantity of fentanyl from an acquaintance.

In interviews with police, Kouri reportedly claimed that whereas celebrating the closing on a brand new residence, she made her husband a Moscow Mule, which he drank in mattress. She mentioned that she then went to sleep with one of many couple’s kids on account of them having a “evening terror,” returned to the bed room she shared with Eric round 3:00am and located him “chilly to the contact.” She then known as emergency providers, however Eric couldn’t be revived.

An post-mortem then confirmed Eric died from a fentanyl overdose — with the medical expert saying the degrees in his system have been “5 occasions the deadly dosage.”

This led to a search warrant of the couple’s residence, together with computer systems and telephones. On her cell, authorities reportedly discovered communications between Kouri and an “acquaintance” with a background in drug possession wherein she first requested about acquiring “prescription ache treatment for an investor who had a again harm.” In keeping with the docs, after he procured some hydrocodone for Kouri from a seller, she adopted up with them two weeks later asking for “a number of the Michael Jackson stuff” — and requested fentanyl. She allegedly dropped $900 for 15-30 drugs on February 11, 2022.

On February 14, Valentine’s Day, Eric then allegedly “grew to become very sick” after a dinner together with his spouse. On the time, he reportedly “believed that he had been poisoned” and even “informed a good friend that he thought his spouse was attempting to poison him.” Kouri is then mentioned to have reached out for much more fentanyl drugs on February 26, 2022 … earlier than Eric was discovered lifeless of an overdose six days later.

Within the months main as much as her arrest, Kouri had been busy selling her kids’s e-book, “Are You with Me?”, which got here out on March 6, 2023 and — in keeping with the Amazon itemizing — “gently guides kids by the tough expertise of dropping a liked one.”