After mating, the female Black Widow spider often eats the male, who, apparently, is easily mistaken for prey. Oops. Praying mantises, though, like to combine romance with a nice dinner. They eat their husband's heads while in the act of mating. Munch, munch, ohh, baby.
A human female has been convicted of murdering her husband with arsenic so she could cash in his $250,000 military life insurance policy to get breast implants and throw wild parties. Cynthia Sommer wanted the kind of luxury not possible on her husband's $1,700 monthly salary as a Marine, so she bought some arsenic and "set herself free."
The death of her 23-year-old husband, Todd, was initially ruled a heart attack. Tests of his liver later showed levels of arsenic 1,020 times above normal. (There is a normal level of arsenic in our bodies?)
The couple had one child. She is also the mother of three children by a former marriage. (I wonder if her ex-husband is still living.) She is not the kind of person who should be breeding. The lovely lady is now engaged to a man she met two months after her husband's death. (Hope springs eternal.)
She and her perky implants face life in prison. This may not be the kind of high life she intended.
