meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Murder Dictionary

Elderly Murderers: Melissa Ann Shepard

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week we discuss 84 year old Melissa Ann Shepard, who is known as Canada’s Internet Black Widow. She has repeatedly married men for their money, then drugged them, & attempted to murder them. Even though she has been convicted multiple times, she was out violating parole as recently as 2016. 

 

To support Murder Dictionary & get access to rewards, perks, & merch, please visit our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/MurderDictionaryPodcast

 

If you’d like shirts, mugs, phone cases, & other merch, you can shop at https://murderdictionary.threadless.com

 

This episode has been edited by Dimitris Kokkos. Contact him at mypodcasthero.com for all of your audio, production, & editing needs.

 

Please rate, review, subscribe & follow us on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter to stay updated on new episodes, true crime tidbits, & the best true crime memes.

 

MURDER DICTIONARY LINKS:

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/murderdictionarypodcast

Facebook : https://facebook.com/Murder-Dictionary-Podcast-1202280266480382

Twitter : https://twitter.com/m_d_podcast

iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-dictionary/id1169967004 

 

MELISSA ANN SHEPARD LINKS:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Canadas-Black-Widow

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/internet-black-widow-melissa-ann-shepard-peace-bond-1.3810094

http://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/friedrich-melissa.htm

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bd3gd/you-probably-shouldnt-date-this-80-year-old-nova-scotia-woman

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Thank you.

0:03.0

I'm

0:04.0

I'm

0:05.0

going to

0:07.0

I'm

0:09.0

I'm

0:10.0

a

0:12.0

I'm

0:13.0

I'm sorry. Hello and welcome to Murder Dictionary Podcast.

0:45.3

My name is Brianna and that is Courtney.

0:48.7

Hello.

0:49.8

So every week before we get started, we make a few announcements.

0:53.3

So we just wanted to remind you that there's a few things in our description and show notes.

0:58.8

We've got links to our social media if you want to follow us over there.

1:03.5

We've also got links to our resources that we use for every week when we study a case.

1:10.0

So if you want to read a little bit more,

1:12.4

then check those out in the show notes. And we also have links to our Patreon and our threadless.

1:19.5

So if you want bigger merch items like t-shirts and phone cases and all sorts of stuff,

1:25.2

check out our threadless. And if you want smaller items like magnets and stickers and some bonus episodes, then join our

1:36.1

Patreon.

1:37.7

So I forgot to make a list of new Patreon people, but we'll do it next week.

1:42.2

But in the meantime, I did want to say we do have a new

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brianna Miera, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brianna Miera and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.