Melissa Ann Shepard, a 78-year-old woman dubbed the “Black Widow,” has pleaded guilty to administering a noxious thing and failing to provide the necessities of life for drugging a man she had married days earlier.
Shepard entered the plea today in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sydney just as her judge-only trial was supposed to get underway.
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R v. Melissa Shepard -- Statement of Facts. June 10, 2013
Melissa Ann Shepard, a 78-year-old woman dubbed the “Black Widow,” has pleaded guilty to administering a noxious thing and failing to provide the necessities of life for drugging a man she had married days earlier.
Shepard entered the plea today in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sydney just as her judge-only trial was supposed to get underway.
Melissa Ann Shepard, a 78-year-old woman dubbed the “Black Widow,” has pleaded guilty to administering a noxious thing and failing to provide the necessities of life for drugging a man she had married days earlier.
Shepard entered the plea today in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sydney just as her judge-only trial was supposed to get underway.