“I was waiting for the right timing as I wanted to kill him out of deep hatred,” she testified about one of her victims She died in a detention center in Osaka at the age 78 in Dec. 2024 More than a ...

A Japanese court on Friday upheld the death sentence for a woman dubbed the "Black Widow", who used cyanide to kill a string of elderly and rich lovers and pocketed millions in insurance payouts and ...

When Japan's notorious "black widow" serial killer admitted to murdering her husband for his money, she told a court she would laugh in the face of a death sentence. "Even if I were executed tomorrow, ...

Kyoto District Court condemned Chisako Kakehi, 70, to the gallows for the murder of three men -- including a husband -- and for the attempted murder of another, ending a high-profile case that has ...

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Japanese prosecutors have charged a woman with murder, weeks after police arrested her on suspicion that she poisoned her latest husband. The husband was one of six men who have died to which the ...