Elderly Murderers: Melissa Ann Shepard

This week we discuss 84 year old Melissa Ann Shepard, who is known as Canada’s Internet Black Widow. She has repeatedly married men for their money, then drugged them, & attempted to murder them. Even though she has been convicted multiple times, she was out violating parole as recently as 2016. 

 

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MELISSA ANN SHEPARD LINKS:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Canadas-Black-Widow

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/internet-black-widow-melissa-ann-shepard-peace-bond-1.3810094

http://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/friedrich-melissa.htm

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bd3gd/you-probably-shouldnt-date-this-80-year-old-nova-scotia-woman