On November 19, 2014, a 69-year-old Chisako Kakehi widow and retired bank employee was arrested in Kyoto, Japan on suspicion of murdering her fourth husband. She is additionally suspected of murdering six others between 1994 to 2013: her first four husbands, a boyfriend and a fiance.
In March of this year, during the early part of the criminal
investigation, the suspect told reporters: “If people suspect murder, I’d find
it easier to bite my tongue off and die,” she told reporters in March. She added that she saw herself as “doomed by fate.”
Over the past two decades she has been the beneficiary of
insurance money totaling 800 million yen (US$ 6.8 million) in addition to
other property and money she inherited following the seven men’s deaths.
Police are investigating all seven deaths, stating that the
older men may possibly have died of natural causes, yet all must still be
regarded as possible murders.
~ Suspected murder #1 ~
Kakehi’s first husband died in 1994 at the age of 54.
~ Suspected murder #2 ~
In 2006 her second husband, whom she had met through a
dating agency, died at the age of 69. The presumed cause was “stroke.”
~ Suspected murder #3 ~
Her third marriage ended in 2008 with the death of her 75-year-old
spouse.
~ Suspected murder #4 ~
In 2012 her then-fiance met his fate after collapsing while
riding a motorbike.
~ Suspected murder #5 ~
In 2013, a boyfriend, believed to have been suffering from
some form of cancer, died.
~ Suspected murder #6 ~
In September 2013 a 75-year-old boyfriend fell suddenly ill
after the couple ate together at a restaurant and soon was dead.
~ Suspected murder #7 ~
Husband number four Isao Kakehi fell sick suddenly at home
and was confirmed dead at a hospital in December 2013, less than two months
following the couple’s marriage. An autopsy showed the presence of cyanide compounds.
[Based on: Miwa Suzuki, “‘Black widow’ with seven dead partners
arrested in Japan,” AFP, Nov. 19, 2014]
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“I killed my husband,” Ms Kakehi said from the witness stand
on Monday. “I have no intention of hiding the guilt. I will laugh it off and
die if I am sentenced to death tomorrow,” [“‘Black Widow’ confesses to killing
fourth husband,” New York Times, Jul 12, 2017]
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かけひちさこ / Kake hi chisa ko / Chisako Kakehi
Checklist:
1994 – first husband, 54, died.
2006 – second husband, 69, died.
2008 – third husband, 75, died.
2012 – fiance died.
2013 – boyfriend died.
Sep. 2013 – boyfriend, 75, died.
Dec. 2013 – Isao Kakehi, fourth husband died.
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