Kouri Richins tried drilling into husband Eric's safe two days after his death, ... trends now
Moscow Mule 'killer' Kouri Richins slipped a love note alongside an allegedly poisoned sandwich then temptingly placed it on the seat of her husband's truck on Valentine's Day 2022.
This chilling detail is one of several new claims to emerge Friday in amended charging documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
It has been two weeks since Kouri, 34, was charged with murder in the death of her husband Eric Richins, 39, whom she allegedly poisoned with a fentanyl-laced vodka cocktail on March 3, 2022.
The mother-of-three claimed she found him 'cold to the touch' shortly after 3am on March 4, 2022.
Now, the newly filed documents have revealed a string of callous moves made by Kouri in the years before, and days after, her husband's death.
Documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Eric Richins, 39, broke out in hives after his wife Kouri, 34, prepared a sandwich for him in February 2022
Eric's family told investigators shortly after he died that they suspected his wife had killed the father-of-three
They include taking out multiple life insurance policies on him worth close to $2million and attempting to 'drill into his safe' just 48 hours after his death.
As for the earlier alleged poisoning in February 2022, Richins broke out in hives after consuming the sandwich, was unable to breathe and required his son's EpiPen to recover. He later told a friend he thought his wife was trying to poison him.
Two days after she allegedly finally succeeded in that bid, on March 6, 2022, the documents show, '[Kouri] arranged for a locksmith to drill into Eric Richins's safe, which contained between $125,000 and $165,000 in cash.'
When one of Richins's two sisters – Amy and Katie Richins Benson – told Kouri that she did not have the authority to do so, Kouri, 'became enraged and punched Eric Richins's sister in the face and neck.'
This was the first time that Kouri learned that her husband had changed his Will.
Without telling her, Richins had created a Living Trust and placed the older of his two sisters, Richins-Benson, 38, in charge.
As previously revealed by DailyMail.com, until that point, Kouri believed she would inherit an estate of at least $3.6million on her husband's death according to the terms of a prenup they signed on their marriage in June 2013.
Prosecutors allege Kouri secretly took out the first of several life insurance policies she had obtained on her husband within just two years of their marriage.
Between 2015 and 2017, the documents state, she took out at least four life insurance policies with an aggregate value of $1,947,000.
Amended court documents allege Kouri had taken four life insurance policies on her husband, with the most recent being filed in two months before his death
Two days after Eric's death, the documents show, Kouri hired a locksmith to drill into his safe. She allegedly 'became enraged and punched' Eric's sister in the face and neck' after she was told she was authorized to do so
The most recent policy was taken out barely two months before his death, in late January 2022, when Kouri filed an application for a new life insurance policy of $100,000 on Richins's life.
The policy was issued on February 4, 2022, exactly one month before his death.
One week after that policy was issued, Kouri allegedly obtained 'illicit fentanyl' from an acquaintance – one of two such purchases made across two weeks in February and totaling $1,800.
In the months after her husband's 'unexpected' death and in a very public expression of 'grief' Kouri wrote a children's book, 'Are You With Me?'
She claimed the work was inspired by Richins's death and her own experience of failing to find any reading materials aimed at helping her sons cope with their loss.
But, while she went on local television to promote the book and painted the image of a happy and wholesome family life ripped apart by unexpected tragedy, attorney and Richins family spokesman Greg Skordas, told DailyMail.com that Richins and Kouri had discussed divorce in the months leading up to this death.
He said: 'They had argued over financial issues, and it seemed that both were more realistic [about divorce] as a way forward.'
In fact, the new charging documents
