Melissa Ann Shepard: The Internet Black Widow

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Comedy, Paranormal, Dark History

4.4 • 100.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the news cycle, an elderly woman attempting to poison her husband would have garnered a pretty small amount of attention from the press, then faded away when a larger story came along. But it didn’t take long for the press to learn that the poisoning of Melissa Ann Shepard's new husband wasn't the first time she had been suspected or convicted of attempted murder. In fact, Melissa Ann Shepard had a criminal history in two countries that went back decades, including many crimes that were very similar to the one she had just perpetrated only with a much worse outcome.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, on top of your head.
0:01.9	On top of your head.
0:03.0	I am Ash.
0:03.7	I am Elena.
0:04.0	And this is morbid on top of your head.
0:06.0	We were just watching, if you're not following Marty Miller on TikTok, he made a great mistake.
0:25.5	Truly, I don't know how to describe his content.
0:30.0	It's indescribable in the best way.
0:31.9	But I urge you to go listen to it.
0:34.8	I have been sending you those TikToks for years at this point. He will just
0:38.6	be like, shout out to you, girl, on top of your head. This is looking awesome today. He's,
0:45.3	he's phenomenal. And we were just watching the one that he did. Elena found it after the America's
0:50.6	next top model doc, which we just watched and you know it's going to be a bonus app.
0:54.7	Oh, guys. I have so much to say. And I won't say it here and now. Because we are, we're getting ready to film the bonus episode or to record the bonus episode. I'm sorry. I said film. I shouldn't have said that. We're not filming it. We're not filming that one. Maybe in the future we'll film. we should and we should smize through it. Oh my God, just smize the entire time. I don't think I can smize. Do try.
1:16.1	She actually just smiled like forcefully at me. I did. I said that's not. No, that's not it.
1:22.9	On top of your head. On top of your head. He always says on top of your head. No, it was a trip. Yeah. In my opinion, I think the only people that looked came out good in that documentary were the contestants. Yeah. Personally. Yeah. So I can't wait to talk about it. Oh, I have so much to say. We can't even get too far into it. But go follow Marty Miller on TikTok and watch that TikTok on top of your head. And listen to what he says about it. Hot ice cream. I say darn. I love him so much. Anything else you want to talk about Big Red? Big Red. Big Red. Big Red. On top of your head. you should buy the Butcher Legacy. You should pre-order it.
2:02.6	Duh. Yeah. Butchorlegacy.com. You can get it anywhere. I signed 2,000 more copies for Barnes & Noble. So go get those. What a casual fucking feat to address. 2,000 more, babes. So go get those. You have a wrist still? I have them in front of me.
2:17.4	That's another thing.
2:18.3	Your wrists are there?
2:19.1	I do.
2:19.6	I have my wrists in front of me.
2:20.8	I have a stack of, Babes. So go get those. You have them in front of me. That's another thing.
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