Canadian 'Black Widow' charged with killing husband
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A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her is accused of trying to kill her husband.
The husband of 77-year-old Melissa Ann Weeks fell ill at a bed and breakfast in Nova Scotia last weekend.
Prosecutor Diane McGrath said Friday that Weeks' bail hearing will be Tuesday.
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Weeks was convicted of manslaughter in 1992 in the death of a previous husband whom she drugged and ran over twice with a car. She also was sentenced in 2005 to five years in prison for theft from a man she lived with in Florida.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has reported that the justice who married the couple later warned Fred Weeks after seeing a news story about his new wife.