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She was also convicted of other felonies, including attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine's Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him black out.
Look, I don't want to blame the victim here, but I probably wouldn't let my wife make me a cocktail if she once gave me a sandwich so strong I blacked out.
This case is insane. They didn't actually charge her until something like a year after the murder because the cops so badly fucked the initial investigation, but the prosecution still got a conviction with barely minutes worth of jury deliberation, because of what a fucking terrible job she did of covering it up.
The 911 call alone is a horror show. The defense tried to use it to show how sad and scared she was, and then the prosecution proceeded to play the entire call, with a stopwatch running from the time she agrees to start CPR - not when she is first asked to by the dispatcher, but when she actually finally relents and agrees to try - to the first actual compression. Six god damn minutes. She is something like ten minutes into the 911 call at this point. During that time she repeatedly informed the dispatcher that she wasn't in the room when it happened. Zero interest in saving her husband's life, only in establishing her alibi.
Oh, and she claims that her phone was in the room with her husband while she was away (in her kids room) but the records on the phone show that it was unlocked several times over fifteen minutes before she dialled 911. After finding her husband unconscious this woman managed to waste almost half an hour before starting CPR.
She had multiple searches on her phone for things like "How much fentanyl is lethal", "Can deleted texts be recovered from an iPhone", "How to remotely wipe an iPhone", and "Luxury women's prisons", which reads like an avant-garde short story about someone doing a crime. She met up with a convicted drug dealer multiple times despite having no prior history of drug use. She wrote a letter to her mother detailing an extensive scheme of witness tampering that she was to rope Kouri's brother into, with notes on all of the exact lies he should tell. She changed two different life insurance policies on her husband to have her as the only beneficiary just weeks before he died.
Why would she give her password to the police?
Depends. They might have broken in without her password. For all we know her pin was "1234". They might have pulled files directly from the hardware without logging in at all. Or they might have just used her biometrics, which is legal in most jurisdictions.
That last one is really important to understand. Courts have generally ruled that refusing to give up a password falls under the fifth amendment right against self incrimination, because it's considered a form of speech. But biometric data is not speech, and can be obtained via a warrant. So if the cops are allowed to press your fingertip to an ink pad and then a piece of paper, they can also press your fingertip to the sensor on your phone. By the same token they can point the phone camera at your face, just like they can point a camera at you when they book you. It's all just biometrics, which aren't protected in the same way. (Yes, its a little more complicated than that, legally speaking, but that's basically how it's been argued in court, and many courts have agreed).
And once either of those actions happens to coincidentally unlock your phone, they have free reign to search the contents and even remove your passwords entirely for their future convenience. That all falls under the standard search and seizure provisions.
She doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb.
heaven forbid a woman have hobbies
What book did she write?
Edit: the dead dad cheering from heaven is darkly hilarious.
I wonder if her lover knew. They were already planning a future with the money she thought she would get from the insurance.
Munchausen syndrome.
I don't see how. Munchausen syndrome is where you pretend to be or make yourself sick for the attention.
some more quotes from the new york times
Forensic analysis of burner phones used by Ms. Richins showed searches for “women utah prison,” “can cops.uncover deleted.messages iphone,” “if someone is poisned what does it go down on the death certificate as,” “how long does life insurance companies takento.pay” and “what is a lethal.does.of.fetanyl.”
Prosecutors said that weeks earlier, on Valentine’s Day, she had tried to kill him by poisoning his favorite type of sandwich with fentanyl. Mr. Richins became extremely ill that day but recovered after using Benadryl and an EpiPen, charging documents said. Afterward, Ms. Richins asked the housekeeper, Carmen Lauber, for “something stronger,” Ms. Lauber told prosecutors, specifically asking for “the Michael Jackson stuff.”
Ms. Richins’s lawyers argued that Mr. Richins was addicted to painkillers and had asked his wife to buy painkillers for him; they suggested he may have overdosed. They argued Mr. Richins could have purchased the drugs himself, and contended during the trial that there was no evidence that showed how Mr. Richins had ingested the fentanyl. Detective Jeff O’Driscoll, the lead investigator on the case, testified that law enforcement authorities did not find evidence of fentanyl on any glasses or straws in the home.
“women utah prison,”
Why tf would she Google this?!? Like she was trying to figure out what to pack for vacation? "What do the other girls wear in prison?"
Kinda reminds me of a friend that got arrested for missing a court date over something stupid right after high school. Everyone told her not to stay at her house until she got the court date sorted out, but she hadn't been in trouble before and I guess just didn't believe they would actually come and arrest her over an active warrant... Yeah...
When the cops showed up she was stoned af and said "Ok..., just let me get my stuff."
The cop seemed kind of genuinely surprised. Like that was the first time anybody had ever responded that way to being told they were under arrest. Then he said "You don't have 'stuff' in jail...?" and then she went "Oooohhh Noooo!!" and threw herself over the back of the couch sobbing.
It's wild that some people are so sheltered
Honestly it's pretty fucked that people don't get to bring their stuff to jail
True, but honestly I'm not sure if it's moral or if it even really makes any sense to lock people up for nonviolent crime anyway.
In the case of this lady, if she did murder her husband, unless there was some kind of abuse going on, don't really have a lot of sympathy.
Either she doesn't grasp the concept of a burner phone, or I don't.
Well if Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have taught me anything, it’s that you have to rip it apart or smash it when you’re done.
I have a friend that married a PoS. At her wedding she told our mutual friend that her now husband hits her. I believe she got married because she was scared of being alone even though we're not old enough for that to be a real concern. A week or more later the mutual friend and I were playing cards at her parent's. The topic of the husband came up and we pushed the topic to this. I said she told us that he hit her. It turns out that they knew but had the belief that there is never a valid reason to get divorced. I shut that shit down right away and surprisingly they sort of agreed.
She divorced him months later.
Point being some people have weird and dangerous beliefs about marriage
Her husband was worth 4 million. She wanted the money.
That's not speculation, the prosecution showed a financial motive and the jury agreed.
She tried to kill him once before and failed, and he not only stayed together but continued to let her get near his food and drink? My guy...
Mushroom lady ex hubby ate food from her for yonks after he suspected she had started poisoning him.
The only justice for these people is to poison them a little bit sometimes so they are suspicious of their food for the rest of their lives.
Not that weird. Usually these types can't shut the fuck about it.
The internet search history from Richins's phone included "what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl" and "luxury prisons for the rich America"
Lmao