Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers , has died in a detention center at age 78, officials say, ...

At 75, Isao Kakehi was in good health and in love. It was 2013, and he had embarked on an exciting new relationship with Chisako Kakehi, a 67-year-old widow he met through a Japanese matchmaking ...

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Chisako Kakehi was 60 when she started her deadly killing spree, offing three elderly partners—including one man she had been married to for less than a month.

Chisako Kakehi, known in Japan as the "Black Widow," was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for poisoning rich lovers — killing three — after she made sure to profit from their deaths.

Chisako Kakehi, 67, was arrested Wednesday in Kyoto prefecture after cyanide was found in the body of her 75-year-old husband, a senior official at the investigative department told The ...

Chisako Kakehi has denied responsibility for the deaths. Kyoto district prosecutors indicted Kakehi in the death of her 75-year-old husband, Isao, according to NHK public television.

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers , has died in a detention center at age 78, officials say, ...

At 75, Isao Kakehi was in good health and in love. It was 2013, and he had embarked on an exciting new relationship with Chisako Kakehi, a 67-year-old widow he met through a Japanese matchmaking ...