foreign [Music] hey guys my name is Jack and today we're going to take a look at another horrible case the story of a British woman named Dina Thompson nicknamed The Black Widow became in the mid-20s one of the main topics for numerous documentaries TV shows and crime programs this Pleasant at first glance woman turned out to be a pathological liar fraudster and led to the grave at least one Man Who Loved Her wholeheartedly Dina repeatedly managed to escape punishment but in 2003 she was still in the dock despite the fact that she was facing life
imprisonment the court was surprisingly mild allowing parole so in 2022 one of the most dangerous criminals who miraculously survived her ex-husband characterized as pure evil went free Thompson's victims were always men which according to experts May indicate some kind of trauma received by the criminal in childhood or adolescence however Dina's early years were quite prosperous the girl was born in 1960 in North London and brought up in a full family her parents lived modestly but did everything to ensure that their daughter did not need anything the head of the family worked as a prison guard
seriously engaged in sports and from childhood motivated Dina to attend gyms where she diligently engaged in gymnastics in addition the man often participated in all kinds of sports competitions including those held in other countries and constantly took his daughter with him Dina grew up quite active cheerful and sociable child she easily made acquaintances and friendships with peers and with age learned to quickly win the attention of guys she liked after school the girl went to college and then got a job in one of the local banks at the age of 22 years Dina met her
future first spouse Lee Wyatt they first met thanks to the cousin of the guy who organized a couple blind date between young people immediately burst feelings and a stormy romance began they got along well spent a lot of time together and two years later officially legalized their relationship after the wedding the couple moved to a provincial place called yapton with a population of only 3 000 people soon the couple had a son and the new parents began to slowly develop their own business creating authors soft toys the images of which they invented together in parallel
Dina worked as a cashier in a construction organization and their family according to neighbors was quite happy and prosperous the head of the family was often away on business matters and was absent from home for long periods of time with neighbors the man practically did not communicate but his wife on the contrary quickly made acquaintances with local residents Dina knew how to win the favor of others easily rubbed in the Trust In addition men often paid attention to the attractive young woman and even tried to court her at the dawn of the 90as Dina met
with a young journalist whose name was Julian Webb the man offered her to work as a model for advertising clothing and household appliances and soon her pictures were painted on the pages of local newspapers and magazines Dina was eager to pose and felt at ease in front of the camera by then Lee Wyatt hadn't been home for months and none of the neighbors had any idea where he was or why he'd been gone so long his wife apparently did not miss him too much having had an affair with Julian just three months after meeting the
journalist introduced the chosen one to his parents saying that he was going to marry her subsequently Webb's mother recalled that she was quite surprised by such a hasty decision of her son in addition a potential daughter-in-law who was a few years older than Julian did not Inspire her confidence when the neighbors learned about the upcoming wedding they were puzzled because they knew that Dina is already legally married to another man however her husband hadn't been home for months and no one knew for sure where he was or what was wrong with him as it later
turned out all this time Lee was in the small town of new key located almost on the other side of the country there he lived under an assumed name and false documents hiding as he thought from the mafia in fact the Man became a victim of skillful lies of his wife who convinced him that their family was in Mortal danger and escape this is the only way out the couple as mentioned were engaged in creating authors soft toys and their most successful creation was leprechaun Sean which sold well and gained a certain popularity in early
1991 Dinah told her husband that their creation was interested in the corporation Disney and is ready to pay 50 million Pounds Sterling for the opportunity to use this character but the joy was short-lived and soon the woman reported that representatives of the criminal World Having learned about the big deal want to get most of the money threatening otherwise to kill the whole family Dina also came up with a way out of the situation convincing her husband that he needed to hide Lee quickly acquired fake documents and went on the Run but before this cunning woman
persuaded Lee to write several threatening letters to her and make several similar records of phone calls which allegedly were supposed to be proof that he hates his wife so that the mafia to stop pursuing her the trusting husband not suspecting anything did as his wife told him to do and then fled in a foreign city with no home or friends Lee was ready to take on any job and all the money he earned was sent to his wife and son so that his family did not need anything most likely this Escape really saved his life
but the threat came not from fictional Bandits but from his own wife in November of the same 1991 Dina married her new favorite Julian and the wedding couple played on the very money that Faithfully sent home deceived Lee Webb was madly in love and happy but soon after the wedding neighbors began to notice that the woman regularly visits the lovers while her husband at work and after a while she informed Julian that she was terminally ill and was fired from her job because of it the story with a fatal diagnosis and dismissal turned out to
be a lie from the first to the last word and it also turned out that from the accounts of the company where Dina worked a large amount of money was missing and the main suspect in this crime was herself then the woman accused her first husband Lee Wyatt who allegedly forced her to go to the crime by threats as evidence she provided the very letters and audio recordings that she herself had previously convinced him to do Wyatt himself returned home as soon as he learned that his spouse had remarried the case was limited to a
scandal and although Dina claimed that he had beaten her there was no evidence of this nevertheless the detective sided with the woman so Lee again had to leave yapton in a hurry in love Julian's situation did not embarrassed at all and he gave his wife all his savings for the treatment of fictitious her fatal disease but time passed the money melted and the husband began to wonder how the treatment is progressing it turned out that the woman did not have a single medical document confirming Her diagnosis relationships in the family broke down neighbors heard how
the spouses fought loudly and in June 1994 the day after celebrating Julian's 31st birthday he died suddenly the evening before the tragedy his mother called him but Dina reported that her husband wasn't feeling well and couldn't answer Julian's mother asked her sister-in-law to call an ambulance but she ignored her request the expert examination showed that the young man died of a drug overdose but for some reason no one saw a criminal Trace in this tragedy and his wife insisted that her husband voluntarily decided to kill himself in addition she demanded that Julian's body was cremated
but his parents were strongly opposed to this also after the death of her husband Dina tried to get a large insurance payment but she was denied because their marriage was recognized as invalid at the funeral Dina did not even try to cry or depict grief on the contrary she chose a Frank outfit and behaved defiantly almost immediately afterward the widowed woman began to spin numerous novels and Affairs she openly brought lovers to her house not hiding from the neighbors only in 1997 Dina filed a divorce from her first legal husband and less than a year
later she met Richard Thompson who immediately managed to charm Dina not thinking long told the new lover that suffers from a serious illness and she has to live a very short time blinded by love the man said that he would turn the last months of her life into a fairy tale and is ready to spend all his savings for this wedding couple played in one of the best hotels in Florida there they spent their honeymoon and then returned to their native England settling on its southern coast in the city of Brighton according to Richard's memories
his wife literally Bewitched him with her care and support and she also skillfully pretended to share all his views and aspirations he has always dreamed of owning his own boat to professionally engage in fishing and his wife not only approved this idea but also offered him to open a company that provides a yacht for rent so that he could not only fish himself but also to teach it to others less than a year after the wedding during a New Year's Eve celebration Dina gave her husband a romantic dinner they took a bath together and afterward
she said she had prepared a special gift and asked her husband's permission to tie him up Richard not suspecting anything wrong readily agreed but as soon as he had the ropes on his hands a blindfold over his eyes and a gag in his mouth he was suddenly struck hard on the head with a bat followed by another luckily Richard not only did not lose Consciousness but managed to free himself quickly then Dina grabbed a knife and wounded her husband in the shoulder Richard knocked the weapon out of his wife's hands immobilized her and called the
police Dina burst into tears admitted that all this time she had lied to him and spent all his money however already at the station she pulled herself together and began to claim that it was her husband who attacked her and she was only defending herself the story did not end there and a day later a real estate agent came to Richard's house to sell the house he had an appointment with the landlady who warned him that her husband had left for America on a business trip at that moment Richard realized that his wife was planning
to kill him sell the house and run away with the money no one would look for Thompson himself for a long time thinking that he had gone across the ocean in the course of Court proceedings it turned out that the woman had withdrawn all the money from her husband's bank accounts forging his signature and also used his credit cards accumulating a lot of debts the case gained a wide resonance and other men began to apply to the police former lovers of Dina whom she deceived and cleaned to the thread telling about a fictitious incurable disease
then also remembered and the first husband of the woman who had to hide for many years first from her fictitious pursuers from the mafia and then from the police it was finally revealed that it was Dina who stole the company in which she worked accusing her husband of everything however the jury despite the presence of irrefutable evidence acquitted the woman in the case of the attack on her husband Richard Thompson and Richard himself was accused of seeking to attract attention to himself making up such a story nevertheless Dina was found guilty of numerous Financial frauds
and sentenced to nearly four years in prison the hype around Dina Thompson also reminded about the strange sudden death of her second husband journalist Julian Webb the woman herself told completely different versions and circumstances of his death she said that her husband was poisoned by steroids which he took to keep himself in shape then claimed that he drank a lot and fell asleep in the sun getting sunstroke and at the inquest and in general said that he took his own life despite her caution Dina once confessed to her best friend that she had poisoned her
husband by putting potent drugs in a spicy dish that he adored the police managed to track down the owner of the diner where Julian often dined and ordered food to take home he recalled that the day before the tragedy Webb's wife took out rice and chicken curry and then the investigators guessed that it was this seasoning that interrupted the specific flavor of the drugs in connection with the newly discovered circumstances a new investigation was initiated and Julian's body was exhumed and sent for examination as it turned out the man was poisoned by a large dose
of powerful antidepressants added to his favorite dish with curry and strengthened their effect aspirin which Dina dissolved in her husband's drink at the time of the call to his mother Webb was still alive and he could be saved but it was not part of the plans of his wife in 2003 the Black Widow was finally brought to trial the investigator at the hearing characterized her as the most dangerous woman he had ever had to deal with and the judge noted that she was a skilled and very dodgy liar Dina Thompson was sentenced to life in
prison but with parole eligibility after 16 years the story of the crimes of the Black Widow formed the basis of numerous documentary detectives actively discussed in TV shows and mused in the Press even after Dina was behind bars detectives Unearthed another dark story from her past as it turned out one of her first lovers disappeared Without a Trace and to this day has not been found alive or dead the young man's name was stoyan kostoff and he lived in Bulgaria where Dina herself trained as a gymnast in the late 70s between them began a romantic
relationship and afterwards the guy disappeared forever the investigation does not exclude that Dina is directly related to this case and costoff became one of her first victims but it was not possible to prove anything while serving her sentence Thompson worked with a prison psychologist and underwent Rehabilitation courses despite her exemplary behavior and the right words about re-education and realization of her mistakes Dina according to the detective in charge of her case does not feel remorse and pangs of conscience and therefore can reoffend nevertheless in the summer of 2022 the 61 year old black widow was
released from prison after learning about it Richard Thompson said that now he will not feel safe because he does not know what to expect from his former spouse now Dina is obliged to report to the police about all her connections and relationships observe curfew and report on all Financial transactions she is also forbidden to approach her ex-husbands and lovers affected by her actions she is forced to wear a special tracking bracelet on her leg that records all her movements a few months after her release Thompson was captured by journalists while returning from a store with
shopping in a large bag curiously on the ring finger of her right hand was a massive ring strongly resembling an engagement ring it is possible that another gullible victim fell into the net of the Black Widow thanks for watching guys that was Jack with you subscribe to my channel there are many shocking stories ahead see you again [Music]
