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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/12/05/3383603/widow-of-3-faces-charge-in-2nd.html
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf..._three_men_who_died_linked_to_same_woman.html
A Mississippi hit man who authorities said was hired by a woman whose three husbands have all died under unusual circumstances has been convicted of second-degree murder in her second spouse's shooting. Alfred "Terry" Everette was convicted of killing Ernest Smith, 38, in 2006, at the behest of Smith's wife, 50-year-old Emma Raine.
She has pleaded not guilty in the case and is awaiting trial in March on a second-degree murder charge. Smith, a New Orleans preacher, was the second of Raine's three husbands.
She has been charged only in Smith's death, but a prosecutor made it clear that the other two deaths were suspicious. "Her main source of income was killing husbands," said Assistant District Attorney Laura Rodrigue, who prosecuted the case with her father, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf..._three_men_who_died_linked_to_same_woman.html
It is one of three successive deaths of men who were close to the same woman, Emma Raine, 50, who has been called a black widow but has not been convicted of any killings...
Prosecutors said Everette, 30, was promised $100,000 to kill Ernest Smith, who was shot dead outside his home on April 15, 2006. Police said the commission came from Raine and her boyfriend at the time, James Raine, who was Everette's foster brother, in exchange for a chunk of an expected $800,000 life insurance payout. Everette's "very close" relationship with his foster brother, combined with the promise of a monetary payout, helped sway him to carry out the hit...
She also is suspected in the deaths of James Raine, who she eventually married but who was found fatally shot in 2011 inside the home they shared, and of her first husband, who was hit by a car, became a paraplegic and deprived of his feeding tube. She has not been charged those deaths.