This week we discuss 84 year old Melissa Ann Shepard, who is known as Canada’s Internet Black Widow. She has repeatedly married men for their money, then drugged them, & attempted to murder them. Even though she has been convicted multiple times, she was out violating parole as recently as 2016. 

 

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MELISSA ANN SHEPARD LINKS:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Canadas-Black-Widow

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/internet-black-widow-melissa-ann-shepard-peace-bond-1.3810094

http://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/friedrich-melissa.htm

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bd3gd/you-probably-shouldnt-date-this-80-year-old-nova-scotia-woman