The Utah mom and children’s book author accused of giving her husband a fatal dose of fentanyl last year emailed investigators before her arrest to “clarify” questions about vacations she took after her husband’s death, his alleged affair, and other questions detectives had as they drew near arresting her.

Kouri Richins’ email to Summit County authorities on April 19 addresses their request about any “exotic vacations” she took after Eric Richins’ death, according to KTVX. She went with her children to a soccer tournament in Spain in October 2022, she said, and she took the kids and her mother to Mexico in August of that same year.

Richins, 33, was arrested on May 8, nearly a year after her husband’s death, and charged with his murder, as CrimeOnline has reported. She appeared in court on Monday and was denied bond, as prosecutors charged that she spiked her husband’s Moscow Mule drink after she made illicit fentanyl purchases prior to his death.

Richins self-published a children’s book after her husband’s death about coping with the sudden death of a husband and father.

The two page email also provided contact information for a nanny, who she said “can tell you about our marriage.”

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She addressed her husband’s alleged affair in the the letter, saying she took her clothes out of the house for a weekend without actually moving out “to make Eric understand that I am not kidding about leaving him” if he didn’t end the alleged affair. After that, she said, the couple went to therapy for a time, “but it wasn’t for us,” and eventually “worked things out.”

She admitted to having post partum depression after the birth of her second child, and said her husband wanted to have “the typical conservative family where the man takes care of his family and the wife is a homemaker, wife, mom, and that’s it.”

“That is not my personality and not the way I was raised,” she wrote. “I am very independent. … It took some adjusting but Eric and I were fine with it.”

She further said the couple had never had a financial difficulties and that she was not financially reliant on her husband.

She closed the letter saying she was “happy to clarify or provide anything else you may need.”

“I just want this over,” she wrote. “I just want our lives back and to move on and grieve and mourn my husband without looking over my shoulder constantly for you guys, or the idiotic Private investigator or the Richins family. Whatever I can do to help close this out, just ask I’ll give you or tell you whatever you want to know!”

The court will meet again on June 22 for a scheduling conference.

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[Featured image: Kouri Richins looks on during a bail hearing on June 12, 2023, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)]