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

The Supreme Court on June 29 upheld the death sentence given to a woman dubbed the “Black Widow” who was convicted of murdering three male partners with cyanide. The five justices of the top ...

The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...

Sudden death of the Japanese 'Don Juan' Police investigate ... not be definitively considered a "murder case." Whether the widow could be considered the perpetrator A key point was the stimulants.