Black Widow Behind Bars

Foxnew.com ^ | March 21, 2007 | Michael Y. Park

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

A 62-year-old woman known as the "Black Widow" is being held in a North Carolina jail on $1.5 million bond for relatively petty charges, while police race to unravel a web of mysteries — including the deaths of her two husbands and a female "best friend" — before time runs out and "she's outta here."

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Be careful out there, guys!!!!!

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Kind of reminds me of this old Onion article, without the murder of course.

Housewife Charged in Sex for Security Scam

[Theresawithanh]

Wow, what a tale! How did she get away with her scams for so long without being caught? After all, she was the last person to be seen with many of the victims.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Wow, what a tale! How did she get away with her scams for so long without being caught? After all, she was the last person to be seen with many of the victims.

Yeah, no kidding. It's amazing how some murders are solved quickly and some aren't. Probably lazy investigators.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

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[Polyxene]

Check out her picture -- she looks just like Bela Pelosi!!!
Nancy, is that you????

[johnny7]

Looks like my aunt. She killed her husband... but it took her 40 years.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Looks like my aunt. She killed her husband... but it took her 40 years.

Ha ha. My mother killed my dad in 35!

[Paved Paradise]

There are so many of these stories. Most of the women don't murder the husbands though, they just take them for all they're worth.

I think many men make choices and decisions based upon something I have dubbed "the penile doppler effect."

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

There are so many of these stories. Most of the women don't murder the husbands though, they just take them for all they're worth.

Not necessarily wives. Girlfriends, too.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

When news broke that the infamous “Black Widow” had been caught after allegedly scamming an elderly North Carolina woman, there was another woman who wasn't shocked by revelations of Sandra Camille Powers' methods of manipulation and deceit. Sandy Hodgins had been through it herself. The 60-year-old South Carolina bookkeeper told FOXNews.com how she had met Powers in August 2005, while Powers was still running one step ahead of a cloud of notoriety that linked her to three mysterious deaths and a staggering number of accusations of lies, fraud and seduction, leading police and the news media to dub her "The Black Widow." “I just wanted a friend, that's the God's honest truth,” Hodgins said. “I don't know if she's schizo or paranoid or whatever. But I can stand before God and be clean, and I don't think Camille can.” Not surprisingly, Hodgins met Powers — whom she knew as Camille — through her church in Charlotte. Hodgins had moved there recently to get a new start after her husband's death. Church members knew Powers as a devout woman whose only husband had died of cancer and who had just returned from years as a missionary in Africa and India.

More Here: 'Victim' of 'Black Widow' Tells Story of Faith and Betrayal

[Hi Heels]

Bela Pelosi.....*snort* hahahaa.a...

[Jo Nuvark]

I find this fascinating.

After my friend called with the sad news that her new (and fifth) husband was dead, I contacted the FBI. Her first two husbands had died of mysterious causes. Third husband went to jail for bank fraud. She was convicted of the same crime, but got probation because they had young children. Fourth husband ended up not really being her husband, but her children used his last name. She secretly remained married to the guy who was in jail. By putting all the debt in non-husband's name, he went bankrupt, she got the goodies. Fifth husband supposedly committed suicide.

FBI said there is no evidence of a crime, just coincidence.

[Hi Heels]

The Penile Doppler Effect. There ought to be a wiki page for that.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

After my friend called with the sad news that her new (and fifth) husband was dead, I contacted the FBI. Her first two husbands had died of mysterious causes. Third husband went to jail for bank fraud. She was convicted of the same crime, but got probation because they had young children. Fourth husband ended up not really being her husband, but her children used his last name. She secretly remained married to the guy who was in jail. By putting all the debt in non-husband's name, he went bankrupt, she got the goodies. Fifth husband supposedly committed suicide. FBI said there is no evidence of a crime, just coincidence.

Holy crap! Also, the response from the FBI sounds like the cop on South Park: "Nothing to see here, move along..."

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The Penile Doppler Effect. There ought to be a wiki page for that.

I think that most men (and obviously some women) are just naive and are afraid to stand up for themselves.

Either that or sociopaths have seemingly magical powers to influence people.

Or both.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Hmmm, this thread isn't showing up in the forum.

[Jo Nuvark]

Holy crap is right. Can't tell you how much this
haunts me. I've lost all of my friends over it.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Holy crap is right. Can't tell you how much this haunts me. I've lost all of my friends over it.

Well, they can be HER friends.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Does somebody know how to add a topic to a thread? I'm trying to add this to Crime/Corruption and News/Current Events, but it just ain't working! :(