

via AP Book dedication mentions 'my amazing husband'Ī year after her husband's death, Richins published a book titled "Are You With Me?" to "create peace and comfort for children who have lost a loved one," according to a description on Amazon. Text messages were sent and received that had been deleted, it said.Īt the time of Eric Richins’ death, the only people in the home were the couple and their three young sons, it said. Investigators later learned that her phone had been locked and unlocked several times and that it showed movement during the time frame when she said she was in her child’s room, according to the probable cause statement. Richins told deputies she left her cellphone in her bedroom and did not take it to her child’s room. and found that her husband was in their bedroom "cold to the touch." She told investigators, according to the document, that she slept in one of her children's bedrooms because the child had a night terror. She said that she made him a Moscow Mule in the kitchen and took it to the bedroom and that he drank it sitting in bed, the statement said. Richins told investigators that the night before her husband died, the couple were celebrating because she had closed on a home for her business, the document said. (Jackson died in 2009 at his Los Angeles home after having received a lethal dose of propofol.) The acquaintance got dozens of fentanyl pills for her, the document said. Suspect asked for ‘the Michael Jackson stuff,’ court records showīefore her husband's death, Richins asked an acquaintance for something strong - “some of the Michael Jackson stuff” - according to the court document. Lifesaving measures were attempted, but he was declared dead. Summit County sheriff’s deputies responded after Richins called 911 to report she had found him unresponsive in their bedroom, according to a probable cause statement.ĭeputies found Eric Richins on the floor at the foot of the bed, the document said. Richins' husband, Eric Richins, died at their Kamas home, about 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, on March 4, 2022.
