IT was Helen Milner’s workmates who first called her “The Black Widow”.
The sinister name came about because the New Zealand woman used to talk so often of the most evil of crimes. Murder.
Milner was known to speak about killing her husband, Philip Nisbet, so much that the name stuck — and when she was eventually convicted of murdering him she became known as New Zealand’s Black Widow killer.
The now 53-year-old is now serving a life sentence with a non-parole period of 17 years for the crime. But it was one she very nearly got away with.