GUILTY "Internet Black Widow" charged with murder

Snoopster · Oct 2, 2012

The woman nicknamed the "Internet Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her has been charged with attempted murder in Nova Scotia.

Melissa Weeks, 77, is also charged with attempting to poison her husband under Section 245 of the Criminal Code, known as "administering a noxious thing." She was scheduled to appear in Sydney provincial court on Tuesday.

Her current husband, a recent widower, became violently ill just days after the couple married.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/02/ns-black-widow-charged.html

She sounds like such a lovely old lady, doesn't she? :what:

Here is a link to an earlier piece...a timeline of her crimes.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2011-2012/theliespeopletell/timeline-friedrich.html

The last item in the timeline (2009) was that she lived alone in Nova Scotia and had so far made good on a promise to stay out of trouble.

Obviously that didn't stick! Lock this woman up for good. (I can't believe she only got 6 years for drugging and running over a previous husband.)

jjenny · Oct 2, 2012

She served two years for manslaughter for killing a previous husband? All righty then.
:banghead:
I frankly don't understand sentences like that.
It's like a slap on the wrist.

ttcRider · Oct 2, 2012

she ran him over.. twice! :what:

LadyL · Oct 2, 2012

her again!

they better not let her out before she's dead this time

this quote from a former victim got me:

"She's a nice woman, she treated me all right until she started giving me drugs."

poor man ...

Seajay · Oct 7, 2012

She certainly is a Black Widow. I can see her being showcased on Investigation Discovery's "Deadly Women" one of these days. How she got away with it so long is beyond me. She WILL kill again. It's like a compulsion with her that she can't resist.

OkieGranny · Nov 28, 2014

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...-widow-sentenced-to-3-years-in-jail-1.1324946

The 78-year-old woman nicknamed the Internet Black Widow for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her was sentenced to 3½ years less time served for administering a noxious thing and failing to provide the necessaries of life for then husband Fred Weeks...

Weeks, a thin, gray-haired man, sat several rows back on the other side of the court watching. There was no victim impact statement.

fran · Dec 16, 2014

Melissa Ann Shepard denied any chance of parole
'Internet Black Widow, 79, pleaded guilty to administering noxious substance after husband fell ill

CBC News Posted: Dec 16, 2014 1:24 PM AT

Melissa Ann Shepard, the 79-year-old woman nicknamed the "Internet Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her, has been denied any chance of parole and must stay in prison for the remainder of her sentence.

In Truro, N.S., court on Tuesday, Shepard was told she must serve the remainder of her sentence another one year and three months.

read more .......... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/melissa-ann-shepard-denied-any-chance-of-parole-1.2874938

tarabull · Oct 31, 2016

'Internet black widow' delays signing of peace bond because of medical question
October 31, 2016

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/internet...ce-bond-because-of-medical-question-1.3138877

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