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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...