The Utah mom accused of poisoning her husband and later writing a children’s book about grief has spoken out for the first time since her 2022 arrest—denying any wrongdoing and going scorched earth on prosecutors.

“I’ve been silent for a year, locked away from my kids, my family, my life, living with the media telling the world who they think I am, what they think I’ve done, or how they think I’ve lived,” Kouri Richins said in a recorded jailhouse statement to NBC News. “And it’s time to start speaking up.”

“You took an innocent mom away from her babies. And this means war.”

The bold declaration is the latest twist in Richins’ wild, true-crime saga. Prosecutors allege that Richins, a 34-year-old mother of three, was drowning in debt and marital troubles when she took steps to murder her........

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