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Melissa Ann Friedrich (nee Russell; born 16 May 1935 in Burnt Church, New Brunswick), also known as Melissa Ann Weeks, Melissa Ann Shephard and Melissa Ann Stewart, sometimes given the sobriquet of Internet Black Widow, is a Canadian woman. She was convicted of manslaughter of her then husband in 1991, and pleaded guilty to grand theft, forgery and using a forged document in 2005. In 2012 she was charged with attempted murder of another of her husbands, and after pleading guilty to lesser charges, she was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Police found a substantial drugs stockpile (primarily lorazepam and temazepam) together with prescriptions from five different doctors and several sets of identity documents in different names among her possessions. Chief Justice Joseph Kennedy, sentencing, said: "People who have contact with this lady should be careful."