Police in Japan think that 67-year-old Chisako Kakehi has fatally poisoned her husband and that her total handiwork in this regard may be seven late husbands and boyfriends. She has denied involvement in the deaths but the Kyoto prefectural police think the cyanide in her 75-year-old husband’s body is just too compelling a reason to arrest her. The couple was married one month before he died in December 2013, reports said. Kyodo news service said that Kakehi had married four times, and that several partners had died within a few years of marrying her or starting relationships with her. Cyanide has also been found in the blood of a 71-year-old partner who fell while riding a minibike in 2012, Kyodo said. In the early going it is often possible for black widows to pull the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting authorities. Readers will remember the case of the New Glasgow Nova Scotia lady, Melissa Ann Weeks, who extinguished one husband by running over him on a country road. She got but 14 months in jail and then went on to kill two more husbands. Black widow of New Glasgow Nation
