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A 39-year-old woman dubbed the ‘Black Widow’ has been arrested for leading a gang that recruited women to marry and murder men to claim their life insurance, Nzherald reports.
Esmeralda Aravel Flores was arrested in El Salvador suspected of heading the murderous racket. “She pretended to be a housewife and told young women that they would marry eligible American bachelors and live in the United States,” said the San Salvador police chief.
She selects men with steady jobs and reasonably well-off. “If they didn’t already have it, the men were required to take out life insurance,” police said, adding: “Then they would get married and live together for two or three weeks before gang members were sent to murder them.”
The detainee is accused of aggravated human trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated homicide and aggravated fraud. Police say that over $145,000 has been claimed in insurance following the deaths of several
