‘Black Widow’. Japanese man killed three husbands with cyanide (and tried 4 times)

CHisako Kakehi, 75, is known as the “Black Widow”. This Japanese woman was sentenced to death for the murder of three of her comrades and … for the attempted murder of the fourth partner. CNN…

Japanese woman Kakehi married for the first time in 1969, at the age of 23, and remained so for 25 years – until 1994, when her partner, who became a victim of the disease, died. Years later, in 2007, crimes began.

Black Widow was 61 years old when she began a relationship with 78-year-old Toshiaki Suehiro, her first victim. In December 2007, a man was having lunch with his family, and Chisako Kakehi gave him – among the medications the elderly man was taking – a cyanide capsule. Fifteen minutes later, he fell unconscious in the street.

Although he did not die, Toshiaki Suehiro was left with “incurable dysfunction” and “visual impairment.” He died a year and a half after his illness.

The second victim of the “Black Widow” was Masanori Honda in 2011. It is not known how long they were together, only that they broke up on March 9, 2012. Honda died that day, passing out while riding a motorcycle.

But the casualties continued …

Minoru Hioki followed him. A cancer survivor, the man was completely in love with Chisako Kakehi and told her that they would be “together forever.” But the story of the first husband repeated itself: like Toshiaki Suehiro, Minoru Hioki also took medicine, and the fate was similar. The Black Widow placed the cyanide capsule in the middle of the regular tablets.

Two months after Hioki’s absence, the woman married Isao Kakehi. A few weeks later, the man passed away in the afternoon. It was on this death that an investigation was launched.

Authorities performed an autopsy – which is rare in Japan – and found that Kakehi’s body had lethal doses of cyanide. Then, in the Black Widow’s apartment, they found empty capsules of nutritional supplements. In the vase, they found a plastic bag with traces of cyanide.

According to the judge, the woman “used a dating agency to meet older victims.” They had nothing to do with each other and never intersected. Arrested in 2014, Chisako Kakehi confessed to the poisoning.

She was sentenced to death in 2017, and in June the “main” appeal became known. However, it is not known when the sentence will be carried out.

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