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 From The Guardian: Utah author of children’s book on grief charged with murdering her husband

 Kouri allegedly bought $900 worth of fentanyl pills before this dinner, and she would later buy $900 more in pills before Eric’s death.

“He warned them if anything happened to him, she was to blame,” Eric told his family, according to records cited by National Public Radio affiliate KPCW.

Warrants obtained by investigators on the case allege that the couple had argued over purchasing a $2m home that Kouri wanted to remodel but Eric thought was too expensive. In January 2022, she tried to change a life insurance policy that Eric had with his business partner, Cody Wright, who helped him run a stone masonry business.

Kouri unsuccessfully tried to remove Wright from the policy and make herself her husband’s beneficiary. Eric went on to remove Kouri from his will and replaced her with his sister, though he did not inform his wife that he was doing so.

We're not talking William S. Burroughs or Norman Mailer.

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