A 70-year-old woman who has been dubbed Japan’s ‘Black Widow’, accused of the fatal cyanide poisonings of her husband and other men, has sensationally admitted to killing her late husband in her Kyoto trial.
Chisako Kakehi is on trial at the Kyoto District Court for the alleged murders of her husband, two boyfriends and the attempted murder of another boyfriend. As she took the stand on Monday, Ms Kakehi – who has been on trial since June 26 – said she killed 75-year-old Isao Kakehi in December 2013 because she “wasn’t given any money” after she married him. Ms Kakehi and her husband had only been married a month when he collapsed in their home.
“I killed my husband,” Ms Kakehi said from the witness stand on Monday, The Japan Times report. “I have no intention of hiding the guilt. I will laugh it off and die if I am sentenced to death tomorrow.”
However, just days later, Ms Kakehi withdrew her statements and denied the killings, according to various news reports.
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Does anyone else think her legal team will use the impending dementia as a defence, that she did not know what she was doing??