Chisako Kakehi, 74, poisoned two boyfriends and a husband with cyanide between 2007 and 2013. She was put on death row in 2017. Her lawyers argued that she suffered from dementia, but the appeal was ...

Chisako Kakehi was sentenced to hang in a serial poisoning murder case targeting elderly men, including her husband, on Nov. 7, 2017. AP It was all part of the plan for Chisako Kakehi: Seek out older ...

A 74-year-old Japanese woman—dubbed “Black Widow” after the venomous spider that ruthlessly kills its partners after mating—will die by hanging after a court dismissed her death sentence appeal on ...

JAPAN – Her murderous web won’t protect Japan’s “Black Widow,” who’s been sentenced to hang after a months-long trial. Judge Ayako Nakagawa of Kyoto District Court ruled Tuesday that Chisako Kakehi, ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a 70-year-old woman to hang for the deaths of her husband and two other former partners, and the attempted murder of a fourth man. Kyoto District Court ...

A 70-year-old Japanese woman dubbed the “Black Widow” confessed to killing one of her lovers – then recanted because she has dementia, according to reports. Chisako Kakehi, who’s on trial for ...

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It was all part of the plan for Chisako Kakehi: Seek out older men with no kids and lots of money, find a way to profit from their deaths, and, when the time was right, hand them a cyanide-laced drink ...

Japan’s “black widow” was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for killing her husband and two former lovers as well as the attempted murder of another man. Kyoto District Court convicted 70-year-old ...