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A body language expert claims that the Mormon mom accused of poisoning her husband last year was advertising that she was single while promoting the kids' bereavement book she wrote after he died.
Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of murdering her husband Eric, 40, in their home in Kamas, a town near Park City, Utah, last March. Police believe she gave him a lethal dose of fentanyl disguised in a Moscow Mule cocktail.
Just last month, she appeared on a local TV station to promote her $14.99 book, Are You With Me?'
Body language expert Patti Wood took note of the fact that she went on the show without wearing her wedding ring.
'Writing a children's book about grief after losing your husband and promoting it without still wearing a wedding ring is an interesting choice,' Wood said.
A body language expert claims that the Mormon mom accused of poisoning her husband last year was advertising that she was single while promoting the kids' bereavement book she wrote after he died
While Wood told The Sun that 'everybody grieves differently,' she believes there was another sign besides the lack of ring that may have given Richins away.
'Nonverbally, she is not just promoting the book, but the fact that she has processed her grief enough to advertise that she is single and available,' she added.
Described as the 'gold standard' in her field, Wood took note of the fact that Richins uses the phrase 'you know' over 40 times in the chat, which she believes may have been a 'desperate cry' to be heard.
'So when you make a definitive statement, typically when you're telling the truth, there's strength and delivery that goes from the first word to the end of the sentence,' Wood said.
'When you're saying it and there's no interruption, that's one of the indications of a true statement. So when you have an interrupter like 'you know,' it's breaking up a sentence. It makes it easier for you to lie.'
She said it's not a surefire way to determine if someone is lying but it makes it harder for the listener to be able to decipher the truth.
In the weeks and months before, Richins tried to make herself the sole beneficiary of his life insurance policy. He had changed his will and power of attorney to give his sister full control, and was even worried that his wife was trying to kill him, according to a police search warrant.
Kouri remains in the custody of Summit County Sheriff's Deputies awaiting her next court appearance.
Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of murdering her husband Eric, 40, in their home in Kamas , a town near Park City, Utah, last March. She is shown promoting her book, Are You With Me, last month
Kouri Richins (left) was arrested on Monday in Utah and is accused of poisoning her husband, Eric Richins (right), with fentanyl at their home in Kamas, a small mountain town near Park City
Video of that appearance shows her referring to her husband's death as a 'shock', and talking wistfully about how she was guiding their three sons through grief.
'My husband passed away unexpectedly last year. March 4 was a one year anniversary for us, He was 39.
'It completely took us all by shock,' she said.
'We have three little boys, ten, nine and six, and my kids and I kind of wrote this book on the different emotions and grieving processes that we've experienced in the last year.'
She said she was motivated to write the book after searching Amazon and Barnes and Noble and finding 'nothing' to help them 'cope'.
'I went on Amazon and Barnes and Noble to try to find something to help us cope at night, nights are the hardest. I just wanted some story to read to my kids at night and I couldn't find anything that suited them, so I was like 'let's just write one.''
