Melissa Weeks, dubbed the Internet Black Widow, was interviewed by the fifth estate in a Florida jail in 2005. (CBC) A woman nicknamed the Internet Black Widow for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her is scheduled for a bail hearing in Sydney, N.S., this morning as she aims to be released from custody while fighting an attempted murder charge.
Melissa Weeks, 77, was charged after her latest husband became ill at a bed and breakfast in Cape Breton
She is also charged with trying to to poison her husband, under Sec. 245 of the Criminal Code, known as administering a noxious substance.
Fred Weeks, a recent widower, has been released from hospital and returned home, where he is resting with his family.
Melissa Weeks made a brief appearance at Sydney provincial court last week and asked for more time to prepare a case for why she should be allowed out of custody.
Crown attorney Diane McGrath said the Crown will oppose the release of Weeks.
Long history with the law
The woman best known as Melissa Friedrich has a long history with the law.
In 1991, she was convicted of manslaughter and served two years of a six-year jail term after killing her husband, Gordon Stewart, of P.E.I., on a deserted road near Halifax. Stewart was heavily drugged when she ran him over twice with a car.
Shortly after she was released from jail, she travelled to Florida and met Robert Friedrich at a Christian retreat.
They married in Nova Scotia in 2000, but a year later, Friedrich's family noticed his health was faltering. He had mysterious fainting spells and slurred speech, and was in and out of hospitals.
They also said his money had started to disappear.
Friedrich died in 2002 of cardiac arrest. No one was charged.
In 2005, Weeks was sentenced to five years in prison for a slew of charges stemming from a relationship she had with another Florida man she met online.
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