TOTTORI —

A 35-year-old woman with links to six men whose suspicious deaths were recently uncovered in Tottori Prefecture and her 46-year-old male roommate were served fresh arrest warrants while being indicted Friday on separate fraud charges. The six deceased had been acquainted with or had financial troubles with the woman, who was an employee of a bar in the city of Tottori, and police are investigating their deaths with a view to building murder cases.
   
In the latest development, the two are suspected of conspiring to defraud a local appliance shop of a plasma TV, a refrigerator and seven other goods worth a total of about 1.23 million yen on four occasions between Oct 8 and Oct 15. In their indictments, the man is charged with swindling a tractor from a dealer and the woman with cheating an acquaintance of 1.26 million yen. They were arrested Nov 2.

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  DickMorris at 07:24 AM JST - 21st November

  These vermin are as bad as Ichihashi. No doubt they will swing and burn in hell. The evidence against the woman in particulary seems too strong for anything but a guilty verdict.

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  neverknow2 at 09:03 AM JST - 21st November

  The evidence against the woman in particulary seems too strong for anything but a guilty verdict.

  Why do they need a trial? If you are so sure of what you read in the newspapers why bother having a trial at all?

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  5SpeedRacer5 at 01:43 PM JST - 21st November

  I have been following the case in the Japanese press. I think this is the one anyway. She is a pretty normal looking person who just decided one day that she was going to start defrauding and then killing lonely men.

  She never got too greedy, and kept relationships at the stage where she never got too involved with their families or anything. She got to know the men just well enough to borrow large sums, or get them to sign things, and then they suddenly "committed suicide." The cases are frightening because she was able to repeat the scams and virtually the only witnesses were the men. Then they died.

  Authorities found messages to her on a victim's computer and tracked it all down eventually, but she was on a roll.

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  getsy at 05:45 PM JST - 21st November

  This story sounds like a movie.

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  Shaolin7 at 08:14 PM JST - 21st November

  I believe this is the same "black widow" lady who very brazenly blogged about it, did she not? It's rather unbelievable. It just seems so predatory to exploit the weaknesses of others, particularly those borne simply out of a sense of loneliness and isolation. What a sad end for the poor victims.

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