A bail hearing for the so-called “Internet Black Widow” has been adjourned until next week.
Crown attorney Diane McGraw says the attempted murder case involving 77-year-old Melissa Ann Weeks will return to provincial court Tuesday in Sydney.
The New Glasgow woman is charged with attempted murder and administering a noxious substance after her husband became ill while the couple was staying at a Cape Breton inn last weekend.
Fred Weeks, 75, was taken to the Northside General Hospital in North Sydney Sunday morning.
Police were called to the hospital after health officials grew suspicious about the nature of the man’s illness.
Investigators say they became concerned after contacting the man’s son in New Glasgow.
“It was learned that his wife of two weeks, a 77-year-old lady who is known to police, had given a story that didn’t seem to add up to the injuries that the 75-year-old male was suffering,” Cape Breton Regional Police Staff Sgt. Mike Kennedy told CTV News earlier this week.
Police say further investigation led them to discover the man’s wife had previous convictions of forgery and manslaughter. They arrested her at a senior’s complex outside New Glasgow around noon Monday.
Weeks - formerly known as Melissa Stewart, Melissa Sheppard and Melissa Friedrich - has a lengthy criminal record that includes a conviction for manslaughter in 1992 in the death of a previous husband who she drugged and ran over twice with a car.
She also has convictions for fraud and forgery involving men she had relationships with before she married Weeks two weeks ago.
Weeks was sentenced in 2005 to five years in prison on seven counts of theft from a man in Florida she had met online.
Her current husband is now recovering at home in New Glasgow after being released from hospital.
With files from The Canadian Press
