
Utah mother accused of poisoning husband will remain in jail as murder trial proceeds
Fox News
A judge ruled Monday that a mother of three from Utah who authored a children's book about grief, will remain in custody throughout her trial for murder and drug charges.
Her case became a true-crime sensation last month when charges were filed as a transfixed public pored over "Are You With Me?" — the illustrated storybook about an angel wing-clad father watching over his children after passing away — and scrutinized remarks Richins made promoting the book as a tool to help children grieve.
Monday’s detention hearing offered both prosecutors and Richins’ attorneys a chance to preview their cases and provide contrasting theories of the case. Prosecutors called to the stand a detective, a private investigator and a forensic accountant who painted a picture of Richins as having calculatingly plotted to kill her husband, making financial arrangements and purchasing drugs found in his system after his March 2022 death.