A notorious Japanese serial killer known as the “Black Widow” has died on death row while awaiting execution for poisoning multiple elderly men with cyanide to get nearly $9 million in inheritances.

Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the “Black Widow,” for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of a ...

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 ...

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 ...