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Chisako Kakéhi
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Chisako Kakehi was found guilty of the murder of her husband and two lovers, as well as an attempt on the life of an acquaintance in order to obtain an inheritance.
Japanese woman Chisako Kakehi, who poisoned four men for the sake of inheritance, has been on death row for several years. In June this year, the Japanese Supreme Court rejected the 74-year-old Black Widow’s appeal to overturn the sentence, reports CNN.-
As the TV channel recalled, the trial of Kakehi was one of the longest in Japan. The woman was arrested in 2014, and three years later the Kyoto District Court found her guilty of the murder of her husband, two roommates and one attempted murder.
Until 2021, Chisako’s defense tried to challenge the death sentence, citing her dementia.
Kakehi committed her first crime in 2007 – instead of medicine, she gave her 78-year-old lover Toshiaki Suehiro a cyanide capsule. The poison led to blindness and other serious disabilities, but the man survived and died only a year and a half later for reasons unrelated to poisoning.
In 2011, Chisako, with the help of a dating agency, chose a new victim – 71-year-old Masanori Honda. In March 2012, after meeting her, he passed out while riding a motorcycle and died in hospital less than two hours later.
Two months before his death, Kakehi began dating two other men, also found through the agency.
The third victim of the “Black Widow” was 75-year-old Minoru Hioki, who by July 2013 had defeated lung cancer. In September, Chisako changed his medicine with cyanide, and when an ambulance arrived, she forbade the man to resuscitate, saying that he was suffering from a fatal illness.
Two months after the death of Hioka, the woman married 75-year-old Isao Kakehi, and a month after the wedding she had another secret lover.
In December 2013, her new husband died of cardiac arrest. The death was considered suspicious and an autopsy was carried out, revealing a lethal dose of cyanide in the heart, blood and stomach of the deceased.
According to the prosecution, the motive for all crimes was money. Kakehi owed Suehiro 48 million yen (about $ 437,000) and by killing him avoided getting the money back.
She earned about 16 million yen ($ 145,000) from Honda’s death. In total, the murders earned her between 500 and 800 million yen (4.5 to 7.3 million dollars).
It is emphasized that Kakehi’s testimonies at the trial were contradictory: she either called herself innocent or confessed to crimes.
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