Black Widows | The women who manipulate men for money and murder | Sunday Night

[Music] Mellisa shawl to the outside world a church-going housewife and loving mother to two little girls in reality a ruthless prostitute capable of murder which was quite a temptress she was a witch Michelle Burgess the unremarkable suburban school mum who contracted a hitman she very coldly calculating to take out anyone who got in her way have sex with anybody then kill him afterwards she's very cunning very calculating she knew what she wanted shanthi how do we describe these women black widows these are women who target vulnerable men and take advantage of them by either killing them off or manipulating them into doing something for them craft and violent crimes tonight Australia's real-life black widow wives My partner said I think he's being to start çal Michelle Burgess and Melissa shawarma masterminded murder - just repeat what she said the chilling inside stories it's gotta be done tonight I think it's one of the most cold-blooded exid I ever came across and more experiences of police officers there's a guy of two women whose power over men was so absolute he was obsessed with her absolutely obsessed hard to imagine what disgusting human being they could even command murder dead wife running and that was her demand that was her demand which is just chilling bow shawl was so perfect a target for a black widow he could have come from central casting he lived a sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast then he met Melissa Shaw at a church youth group what was the attraction to Melissa I'd never had a girlfriend before and she was really the first girl who had ever taken an interest in me as a 17 year old home educated never had a girlfriend as soon as a girl any girl took an interest then that interest was immediately responded back you were flattered yeah here's Melissa showing an interest in you yeah fantastic yes absolutely beau was head-over-heels Melissa seemed to be his perfect match a devout clean living girl with the same values and life goals theirs was a whirlwind romance they married just a few months later at that time she certainly had you convinced that she was a wholesome Christian girl 100% without a doubt though it didn't take too long to start to see the cracks those cracks became a chasm when Melissa made a dramatic confession just days after their wedding we were on our honeymoon and she decided to come clean with me about what she'd been doing for work before were married and what did you think she did well she had told me that she was working at a women's refuge it actually turns out the women's refuge was not a woman's refuge it was actually a brothel that she was working out at Tweed Heads and she just called it something a little different and that was a hard pill to swallow just like that beau discovered that his seemingly wholesome new bride Melissa was in fact the sole treat sex worker Savannah you're telling me that you thought she was a social worker but in fact she was a prostitute correct and she told you this on day 2 of your honey that is correct crushing I know but Bo earnest naive god-fearing Bo who couldn't just abandon his wedding vows he chose the Christian path of forgiveness I felt that as anger as I was as hurt as I was I felt like it was this new mission that had been given to me now I couldn't walk away from her because I was married to her which I felt was a covenant for life and B I needed to help this person she wasn't she wasn't perfect she had problems and I felt that I could help her to be a better person so I took it upon myself to do that Bo and Melissa had two daughters I but motherhood did not rein her in sex was her bargaining tool she wouldn't let me touch her for weeks on end because I hadn't agreed with something but if I went along with any of her ideas or any of her plans she was an incredibly loving wife and she was not just sex but the just a whole demeanor she was caring and loving disagree with her she was cold as ice sex is a weapon is one of the biggest tools in these women's arsenal they either withhold it or they give it depending on whether the men are falling into line with what they want so sex absolutely is a weapon for these women and the puppy-like bow was well and truly outgunned in the bedroom he gave him - Melissa's every wimp even agreeing to bankroll costly cosmetic surgery she had said and I quote I want a porn star looking boobs which at the time I at the time I didn't think much of it that was just a descriptive term but you wanted her to be happy I did want her to be happy hope it he's act exert fix her fix the she's the verb at the broken wing boat took out a $25,000 loan and flew the whole family to Thailand for Melissa's breast enhancement surgery when we got there instead of just getting the boob job done she decided it was all these other things she wanted done so she had liposuction on a stomach and legs she had varicose veins removed she had permanent tattooing done around her lips and her eyes lip fillers put in it totally transformed her body to a different looking person she looked different from that point forward it still wasn't enough for her curly they are very controlling and it's not their looks that are allowing them to necessarily control these men there's something magnetic about these women to some of the men that they meet that allows them to completely dominate them once Melissa had completely transformed her body she demanded Bo who do the same she enlisted the help of body builder Adam gulley what bo didn't know was that his new trainer was also his wife's lover off I go couple nights a week down to the gym to workout with Adam and hung out and worked out together but then things started getting really messy because he says ah let's you you should take these steroids they'll really help you buff up faster that decision put me in hospital within three months the steroids the steroids the steroids sent me totally loopy I think the term at the time was testosterone psychosis from an excessive amount of testosterone and I I just I went off the deep end straight to a psych ward she totally messed with every part of me I was a broken shell I started off with this idea that I would help her fix her little broken wing and I ended up far more broken than than I ever thought possible beau and Melissa Shaw appeared to be a loving Christian couple he was the devoted husband she was the stay-at-home mom with two young girls but Melissa had a shadowy past as the sultry sex worker Savannah there was Melissa and there was Savannah correct Melissa the mum your wife Savannah the prostitute and she told me again and again they are not the same person you have to see them as separate people but were they no they were one in the same I now know that Melissa the mum was actually the front Savannah was the real person that I'd married I just didn't know it yet suburban life bored Melissa she wanted a bigger house more money and the kind of excitement her husband couldn't provide she announced she was going back to work as a prostitute she wanted to again become Savannah she says I could go down to Sydney and work at a brothel in Sydney and make a few thousand dollars in one weekend I'm the wife is telling you that she wants to go and work as a prostitute on the weekends yep you say hell no this is not happening this is just not happening needless to say Melissa got her way every hand working as a prostitute again she did she started working as a prostitute here on the Gold Coast a little establishment called the Pentagon grand [Music] Melissa was out all hours with clients reveling in the thrill of her old trade beau became a stay-at-home dad but she had you where she wanted you you were stuck in her web stuck in her web stuck in my house I never went out I the kids I dropped the kids off the kindergarten I came home and I sat at home I had no social connections whatsoever [Music] this is not random the way these women hunt for their men they don't as go out and choose some random guy and then try and control him they go out and they find men who will fall into this this trap that can be manipulated and controlled so she's targeted somebody like bo and then she's taken full advantage of that and Bo wasn't the only man caught in Melissa Shores web for some time she'd been carrying on an affair with body builder Adam gulley and just like Bo he was head over heels in love with Melissa he lavished her gifts like what they all did he was just another bloke trapped in the web detective Mark Proctor led the investigation into Melissa Shaw's life and crimes she's very cunning very calculating she knew what she wanted and she was sort of she believed she had a plan to get it she had control over men didn't have control yeah never really got to the bottom of why that was but she did seem to have a lot of control over the men she wanted to control while beau stayed at home looking after the kids melissa raked in the cash she kept meticulous notes on all her clients always on the hunt for her next meal ticket then flashy Gold Coast businessman Sam Doty walked through the brothel doors she started talking about a man whose name was Sam he was very wealthy businessman they started seeing each other privately which started making her more money and she told me that she was going to start dating Sam so that she could take advantage of his financial estate she was going to make sure that whatever finances he had she was going to take advantage of and she was she was set Bo finally snapped he left Melisa taking the girls with him Melissa didn't skip a beat she moved in with Sam Dodie and somehow convinced him to make her a company director with access to his bank accounts so exactly like the black widow spider these women trap these men in her web yep they're the Black Widow in the center of that web with all of these little males around them and they're either killing them or they're using them so yeah exactly like the Black Widow and this black widow wanted Sam's money so she convinced her devoted bodybuilder boyfriend Adam Cooley [Music] to kill him [Music] the savage attack was interrupted by a good his escape everywhere this is the vision from a police body camera it shows a suspiciously nonchalant Melissa not long after the attack her boyfriend Sam is being treated for serious injuries in the doorway you were the girlfriend well grab a drink and then go back to have a chippy that's fine the man is lying on a stretcher on the ground in a neck brace she's not even looking at no in fact she's completely moved away you notice she is completely separated herself from this physically and vocally this is nothing to do with her that is the only signal that I can get from this she's literally walked around the corner like nothing to do with me so did you get a look at his face a little bit did you recognize it or something so you've never seen that before that's a lie that is a lie but she's now she knew exactly who come into the house with the crowbar yeah because she organized it yes Sam Doty was critically injured in the attack but he survived melissa is not going to fail a second time Gold Coast monk an occasional prostitute Melissa Sean is hell-bent on killing her new boyfriend Sam Doty for his money she convinced another of her lover's Adam gully to attack him with a crowbar but Sam survived the vicious beating so failed that was the first hit that was the first hit yeah and that was meant to kill Sammy bleep it was a first attempt on his life three months later Melissa arranged a second hit [Music] [Music] this time all her scheming had paid off Sam Doty was already dead when she called triple o I just got home I walked into the bedroom and my partner said I think he's being shot that he's got holes in his hands he's still in bed touched everybody is cold okay Sam had been shot ten times at point-blank range in his bed okay Melissa sounds destroyed in vegetable oil but she doesn't fool the police they're suspicious from the start they begin tracking her she's also brought into the station for questioning currently currently stationed in Thursday first of August 2013 the time on the clock is a quarter d agree with that time Alyssa yes that I would consent to being recorded as soon as you confronted her with anything that was awkward or she didn't have answers for the truth the truth the war would go up and you know there was a different Melissa and she would become aggressive angry make allegations about different different things storm out of interviews mark Proctor's team also bugged Melissa's phone and soon discovered the true nature of the relationship with Adam in his police interview gully claimed he was sick and in bed at the time Sam was killed it was a woefully flimsy alibi and we find footage of him at his workplace on the day of the murder where he says he's too sick to even pick up a gun and he's blow picking up cancer fruit and moving around and it pretty much shot his argument down that he was home in bed then there was all the forensic evidence tying ghuli to the shooting including the murder weapon the lovesick bodybuilder had used his father's gun faced with the mountain of evidence gully confessed next police right at Melissa's house she was arrested charged and convicted of Sam's murder it was quite bizarre her reaction she doesn't ask us questions she just seems to accept a fight she had no other tricks to use no other tricks to use there were no more game plans there were no more strategies there was nothing there was just dead pen Melissa and that's why it's been since then Melissa and gully were both sentenced to life in prison even today GU Li remains loyal to the woman he loved and killed for what does gall he say girl he says it's him only him then Melissa knew nothing about it that he snuck into the house and Melissa's defense to this day is there was all girly that she didn't know anything about it took many years but Melissa's former husband beau Shawn has managed to rebuild his life with a new wife Margot will boers live broken completely he was a mess a complete mess there has only really been two women in your life Melissa and Margot hmm a huge contrast you've had the good and and a very very bad she was quite a temptress she was a witch trampling over people's lives undermining their self worth wrecking families and manipulating men to do terrible things is all stock-in-trade for these so-called black widows and there is no more a diabolical exponent of these dark arts than Michelle Burgess what was Michelle Burgess all about what did she want she wants the man didn't she she wants the man and anyone who's standing in her way will be removed and she's obviously not concerned about how that happens and the man Michelle wanted was a delayed tire store manager Kevin Matthews he managed to buy repair store he was a popular figure at his local surf lifesaving Club on the surface he was a respected family man and businessman but the second he thought another woman was going to pay him some attention he didn't hesitate to throw it all away Kevin Matthews met his wife Carolyn at their local surf club when they were teenagers together they had three sons Kenny Shane and Daniel she was a beautiful lady like I was really close with her she was very loving caring did anything for anybody everyone no one really ever had anything bad to say about her she loved the surf club didn't she absolutely absolutely what did that mean to her dedicate a lot of her time I mean the whole family's time we were down there every single day of the week she loved it she had a really good group of friends their life was incredible like I do upbringing really like good family good area ideal that is until Michelle Burgess came along Michelle's husband Darren worked at Kevin's tire store from the moment she latched eyes on Kevin Michelle wanted him and his larger paycheck for herself Michelle turned on the charm and before long Kevin was head over heels she was a very powerful woman in his eyes and he would have done anything to keep her happy he is blinded by her absolutely yeah you know he's she's everything he had a better job than her husband got what more money he had a better house better lifestyle that's what she was after she didn't love him that she was using him major crime detectives Mick standing and John keen spent months investigating Michelle's life and many lovers ultimately they got to know her better than the besotted Kevin she's very cold and calculating she's just the epitome of a black widow someone who uses devours men have sex with anybody then kill him afterwards that's he ever Matthew thought he was on to a good thing that the sex would never stop he thought he had found the one true love of his life and I've got spend the rest their days together what Kevin didn't know was that Michelle was juggling a legion of lovers there's a whole conga line isn't it yeah you know and the stupid pathetic thing is that your father thought he was special yeah Annie was that he was the 109 he was another pair I'm in the shower still Michelle Burgess filled Kevin's head with promises of a beautiful future together all that stood in their way she told him was their spouses Darrin and Carolyn there was only one thing to do they were going to live happily ever after they were going to kill both their partners cash in life insurance policies and live happily ever after there's a fantasy it works really well in reality it didn't and it was it was a porn true crime writer and author Derek Pedley is still confounded by what happened next Michelle made Kevin draw up to murder contracts naming Carolyn and Darrin as the targets both of these pieces of paper had pictures of their respective targets and then details of where they worked their movements during the day their phone numbers are those kind of basics all Michelle needed now was a hit man so she took on another lover career criminal David King Michelle made some notes and she said essentially that she wanted both of the murders done that week and that she wanted one of them done by Friday dead by Friday and that was her demand that was her demand yeah which is just chilling Adelaide house wife Michelle Burgess wanted more from life and she pinpointed her husband's boss Kevin Matthews as her ticket out she not only seduced Matthews she convinced him they needed to kill their partners she then enlisted another of her boyfriends career criminal David key to be the hit man it was always a story of two sides of town for me the the the safer middle-class existence of the Matthews family and the chaotic and disturbed world of David Qian and Michelle Burgess and in those two worlds colliding and it was all the sick fantasy of Michelle's it was all a sick fantasy of Michelle's the first victim was to be Kevin's wife Carolyn Michelle and the hit man key drive to meet Kevin at his tire shop later in a police interview he explained to detectives what happened next and just repeat what she said it's gotta be done tonight you said it it's got to be done tonight it's gotta be done tonight yeah was it alright not a problem what do you think she meant pilot murder Karen that is Michelle and David King he drove to the Matthews family home Carolyn Matthews was by herself Kevin had made sure of that arranging to take their three boys to the video store they got out the car and walked towards the front of the the Matthews home just as Carolyn came out the front door was from recycling key has strode up to her and asked her are you Carolyn Matthews and showed her the murder contract pointed at the patron said is this you which was just bizarre Michelle Burgess strikes Carolyn across the face pushes her back into her house so she starts it off she gets underway she gets it underway they back Carolyn into a tiny kitchen all the while arguing about whether or not to kill her you can only imagine Carolyn Matthews absolute terror at this point he's got no escape this angry drug-crazed man is screaming at his woman in front of him and that's when the the wheelchair knife comes out of the out of the kitchen i'ma show you sending me an orphanage off the killer must have asked if it's not you do if you want if you want to pay with money you prove to me how much he loved me till [Music] while sis was happening when you were stabbing Carolyn did Michelle say do you think we'll do anything didn't hear a thing we were where I didn't even hear Calum Nettie's I've been begging for a lot Michelle and David Key drove to a nearby beach where they washed off Carolyn's blood meanwhile Kevin had just arrived home with his boys aged just 12 13 and 16 he knew exactly what they would find inside and yet he deliberately held back letting his children into the house first I think it's one of the most cold-blooded Axl I ever came across in my experience as a police officer for a father to send his poison to do that we went inside and ran into the kitchen [Music] and then that's when we saw our mum that and Kenny started to do CPR and stuff him we just got told to call the ambulance Daniel's older brother 13 year old Shane grabbed the phone and made this panicked triple oh cool there's no way that anything could have hoped unbelieva she was definitely gone by then anyway I still got stands and stuff that from the night that makes me feel sick yeah it's not a nice thing to picture Kevin Matthews assumed the role of the grieving widower he was a sobbing pallbearer at his wife's funeral how much do you miss her hey hey it's three weeks after Carolyn's murder he even went on television you just don't know what you got to give miss it love me I don't know I just don't know what you got to you miss it you honestly don't you don't get me wrong we just we have our tethers and the kids are stressful and you really just don't know what you've got until it's and honestly you don't what would you like to say to those people obviously you can do it oh I didn't compare my boys didn't kill Carol and nobody that I know that we believe that nobody I know kill Carol I didn't cook her my boys didn't kill Carol and nobody that I know that the I believe that nobody I know cou Carol Kevin Matthews made a tearful public appeal begging for information about his wife's murder but the police were already closing in on her killers surveillance footage revealed Matthew's meeting up with Michelle Burgess and you had a girl beside you didn't have a favorite and parabolically side didn't have in the favor was he ever honest did he ever admit that he was having an affair with Michelle Burgess no we actually had evidence from two people who saw them having a sexual relations in in a park and a public path did you have any honestly Michelle Burgess told the police the same story she had nothing to do with Carolyn's murder and she was not involved with Kevin so you deny ever having an affair as such was Kevin Matthews yes I know but we never had an affair never had but the evidence against them was building including a major clue left at the crime scene by their bumbling hit man David key the interesting thing that I saw they always sticks in my mind is the shoe prints that will boot prints and very distinctive and I thought well you know whoever started this we get those boots and match them to Everest Anna they've literally horns for really nice evidence finding a Cinderella match for the boots was made all the easier because key couldn't keep his mouth shut he boasted about carrying out the head one of his confidence was a former cellmate Jason Cole Enzo yet another of Michelle Burgess as lovers he came to you the day after day after what did David describe to you about the attack about the actual murder lean forward lean forward lean forward yeah I mean all that pointed through every part down there across the fingers and in the back he marked every part every part of every step wound yep and what did he say I said bullshit and I saw it on the news that night hmm there's a lot you kiddin he started bragging to look up to other people that there he hire himself really [Music] David key was finally arrested when he was pulled over for speeding on his feet the same boots he'd worn the day he killed Carolyn Matthews key confessed telling police he destroyed the murder contract drawn up by Michelle Burgess by eating it in a sandwich tore all up spread your lousy sandwich and I why did you do that if they can't find a document with the fighters and details on it then have never existed but Kay forgot to eat the other contract the one ordering the hit on Michelle's husband Darren he was arrested it not here their contract it is in his wallet next police arrested Michelle Burgess and charged her with Carolyn Matthews murder you'll be taken out out of the city watch house where you'll be formally charged in the offensive well Kevin Matthews remained a free man but even with the noose tightening he couldn't stay away from Michelle he attended his lovers first court appearance wearing a hat with the word forever written on it and mouthed words of support for her as she sat in the dock he was obsessed with him mm-hmm absolutely obsessed it's hard to imagine why disgusting human being [Music] a month later kevin was charged with killing his wife he's disgusting what he did he was no need earlier to do is to force his war he killed her to prof the boys of their mother when they really need a young teenage boys and what he did was as as low as you can go and more view in the end the boys not only lost their mother but their father as well he's dead to you varnavat father is a true is true Michelle Burgess and Kevin Matthews received the longest sentences in South Australian legal history 30 years each David key the hit man was jailed for 20 years but jail hasn't mellowed Michelle Burgess she continues to wield her lethal charm even behind bars when she was locked up she then started trying to have affairs with prison guards as well and in fact leading to a rule that no male prison guard is to be left alone with with Michelle Burgess it's almost a reverse of Hannibal Lecter style situation you can't leave a man alone with Michelle or she'll devour you you

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Length: 38min 13sec (2293 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 18 2019