Black Widow

Black Widow is a new Sky TV documentary series that follows the decade-long police investigation into Dena Thompson, who became better known as The Black Widow.

Over a period of 20 years, she carried out a sustained campaign of fraud, deception, bigamy, and murder, using Lonely Hearts columns to lure a succession of husbands and dozens of lovers into her life.

Once she got them under her spell, she was able to coerce them into giving up their life’s savings, their homes, their families, and their freedom based on her bizarre but convincing stories.

The series includes first-hand testimony from those affected, with exclusive access to her first husband – who ended up homeless believing he was on the run from the mafia.