France's Black Widow murder trial began yesterday, Monday. France's Black Widow is Manuela Gonzalez. The woman murderer allegedly drugged her husband and then burned him to death in his car.
More commonly known as the "Black Widow of Isère", France's Black Widow is accused of not just drugging her husband and burning him to death, but accused as well for killing two other previous husbands who died in mysteriously. France's Black Widow is also accused for almost killing two of her lovers who narrowly escaped their death.
Manuela Gonzalez, or France's Black Widow murder case has held the attention of France since reports revealed that all of Gonzalez' lovers either die, or have come close to dying.
Gonzalez, France's Black Widow, had a late husband, but his remains were found rather uncommonly. The charred remains of the late husband of Manuela Gonzalez were found inside his burnt-out car. This car was suspiciously discovered near the house he shared with France's Black Widow in Villard-Bonnot in the Isère region of the Alps. Gonzalez' 58-year-old late husband's name is Daniel Cano.
Police investigations of the fire suspects that the fire was deliberately set, and that the man inside the car, France's Black Widow former husband, Mr Cano, had taken - or was unknowingly fed - a large dose of sleeping pills.
The prosecution asserts that the motive for the death of the man was money. Miss Gonzalez and her husband were both known to be regular gamblers and apparently, France's Black Widow had racked up considerable debts. Investigators discovered that she re-mortgaged their house for 165,000 euros, approximately $229,000, without her husband's knowledge in 2008.
Investigators also discovered that the husband of France's Black Widow, Mr Cano, had life insurance which was enough to pay off the entire mortgage on their home. Authorities investigating the case also happened to dig up the past of France's Black Widow, and what they found out shocked them as four of Gonzalez' previous lovers had been poisoned under suspicious circumstances, and two others had died.
This discovery of the past of France's Black Widow will impact the verdict quite heavily. Investigators found out that in the year 1983, Gonzalez' husband at the time spent three months in a coma for having taken large quantities of anti-depressants. He immediately divorced Gonzalez, now France's Black Widow, when he woke up.
The year after that, Gonzalez began had another partner, a jeweller who surprisingly also ended up hospitalized after drinking a cup of tea she had laced with morphine derivatives. This devious act of Gonzalez, now France's Black Widow, was reportedly a plot to persuade the jeweller to write her a cheque for the equivalent of £10,000. Gonzalez, now France's Black Widow, was convicted of a two-year prison sentence for the crime.
In April 1989, Gonzalez, now France's Black Widow, had another lover who died in his garage, asphyxiated by exhaust fumes from his car. The death was declared a suicide at the time. 1991, a boyfriend of Gonzalez also died as a result of fumes caused by a fire in an apartment they shared.
Suspiciously, also a month before Mr Cano's death, a fire broke out in his bedroom on the night Miss Gonzalez, now France's Black Widow, was "cooking". She said a dog knocked over a candle in the room.
Prosecuting lawyers claim that France's Black Widow has a split personality - one loving and fun, the other a murderess.
France's Black Widow pleaded not-guilty to all the charges. She faces a life sentence if convicted and said: "I continue to say that I am innocent of what I have been accused and that will be shown in court." Friday is the expected verdict for Miss Gonzalez.
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