The Black Widow: Dena Thompson and the Poisoned Birthday Curry
On his 31st birthday in June 1994, Julian Webb sat down to his favourite meal — an extra-hot curry cooked by his wife. By the next morning he was dead, and she was already asking about his £36,000 death benefit. She said he took his own life. For years, the inquest agreed.
But Dena Thompson, the woman the British press called the Black Widow, had a pattern. Through lonely-hearts columns she targeted men sexually, financially and physically — draining their accounts, inventing elaborate lies, and leaving a trail of ruin behind her. One husband ended up living rough convinced the Mafia was…
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