Brilliant scheme

It's not my usual practice to advise others on the ways and means of mariticide (killing one's husband) but I think the sad example of this Kouri Richins bears examination.

She's what you might call a self-made widow, accused of killing her husband, and then becoming the ten-millionth person to write a children's book, purportedly to explain to her three sons why Daddy isn't around any more.

Things are strange out there in Utah, but in her grief after her husband Eric died, she threw a big party at her brand-new $2 million house the day after he died.

Police are saying she slipped Eric a lethal dose of fentanyl and then celebrated closing on a 22,000-square foot house. She planned to flip the property, but when Eric objected to that plan, she flipped him instead. 

It's unclear whether she knew that he had recently changed the beneficiaries on his life insurance to be his parents. He duked her out of the loot because he suspected she was unfaithful.

In happier times.

Police say that she fixed him a nice Moscow Mule on the last night of his life, and laced it with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl.

And they say that she said she slept in one of the kids' rooms and woke the next morning to find him dead!

This all took place in March of last year. This year, she must have thought that the perfect smoke screen would be to write one of those lugubrious kiddie books that claim to help bereaved kids cope. 

This did not fool the police at all, but maybe she can take a few cases with her to the Greybar Hilton and peddle them to her soon-to-be fellow inmates.