Kiss of Death

poison in the favourite meal

At first, he said, he was shocked to find she had lost her sparkle, but when she told him that her first husband beat her up and stalked her, and her second husband had died (this time she said from an overdose of steroids), he felt sorry for her. This, compounded by the fact that she said she was being treated for terminal cancer of the kidney, and had just weeks to live

Dena wasted no time going to see his boss at the newspaper office to claim his £36,000 death-in-service benefit, turning up the same day. She was described as ‘cold and unemotional’

there that she met a dark, handsome charmer, Paul Wilkinson, an Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer with the New South Wales police. He and Kylie had met before, socially, but it was when he was admitted as a patient that they first talked and got to know each other. Kylie was smitten

there was no evidence that Julian had taken an accidental

death-in-service benefit

was the mug who went along with her lies

She lives a life of lies and fantasy and I

and their son Darren was born in 1987

But the really lucky ones were those who did not