This podcast details true crime cases.

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

This is the beginning of a new year and a new series.

I'm looking forward to the next few months,

as I've come up with ideas for some really unique new topics

for the podcast and I can't wait to share those stories with you.

But first up, we'll focus on crimes committed by what used to be called the Fairer Sex.

But the women you will learn about in these episodes are some of the most cold blood killers I've come across.

In the next three episodes, we'll take a look at women who can be considered serial killers,

but their victims are not strangers.

Instead, they are the very men they have vowed to love and cherish their own husbands.

First up, an American woman who married young and often.

In total, she wed five times and killed twice.

A third victim narrowly escaped with his life.

Was this the case of a battered woman or a cold calculating murderer?

This is chapter one of the series Black Widows, the case of Betty Lou Beats.

Gunnbarrel City, Texas is located in Henderson County, southeast of Dallas.

It sits on Cedar Creek Reservoir, an 18 mile or approximately 29 kilometer long waterway

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