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Melissa Ann Shepard is shown in this undated handout photo.The Canadian Press

The elderly Maritime woman nicknamed the "Internet Black Widow" is back in the news again, even though it's for visiting a library.

Now 80 years old, Melissa Ann Shepard was released from jail earlier this spring after serving a federal sentence for drugging her husband while they were on their honeymoon.

Halifax Regional Police said Tuesday that she will be charged with breaching her release conditions after she was spotted trying to access the Internet from a terminal at the Halifax Central Library.

Ms. Shepard had been recognized by an officer, who knew that her parole conditions included not going online.

After her arrest, she was found to be in possession of "a device capable of accessing the Internet," police said.

Ms. Shepard made worldwide headlines when Cape Breton Regional Police took her into custody in October 2012 after her fourth husband, Fred Weeks, who was then 75, had to be hospitalized while they were staying at a bed and breakfast in North Sydney.

He was the latest man to come to grief after crossing her path.

Two decades before, when she was known as Melissa Stewart, she had been convicted in Nova Scotia of manslaughter in the death of her second husband, Gordon Stewart, whom she run over with a car.

She later told police he was abusive and had raped her at knife point after driving her to a secluded logging road.

While behind bars, she participated in a 1994 documentary, When Women Kill, where she said she was trying to escape from him when he got out of the car to urinate.

"I turned the keys on really fast and I put the car in gear and I didn't realize but I put it on reverse instead of forward and I backed the car over him," she said in the documentary.

"I didn't look back. I just looked straight ahead and I put the car right to the floor, I pressed the gas right to the floor and I just shot right out of there."

By 2001, she had moved to Florida's Manatee County, and had befriended and married a widower, Robert Friedrich.

"She had sought him out. She sent him a letter and a picture of herself," Mr. Friedrich's son Dennis, later told the Bradenton Herald after his father fell ill and died at home. The family suspected foul play but his body had been cremated.

She, however, got a five-year sentence in Florida's Pinellas County criminal court for stealing about $20,000 U.S. from another man, 73-year-old Alexander Strategos, whom she had met on a dating website.

By the time she met her last husband, Mr. Weeks, they were both living in 2012 at a seniors' complex in New Glasgow.

Neighbours told the Globe and Mail that they were aware of her previous brushes with the law.

"It was a very short relationship," one neighbour told the Globe.

According to an agreed statement of facts at her trial, she knocked on Mr. Weeks's door and befriended him.

The statement of facts also said she later slipped the tranquilizers Lorazepam and Temazepam into his drinks while they were on their honeymoon.

She was arrested and pleaded guilty to administering a noxious substance and failing to provide the necessities of life.

She was sentenced to a 3 1/2 year prison term.

Before she was released last month, Mr. Weeks told the Canadian Press that he was worried about her return to liberty.

"She kept me in the dark for a long time, telling me her stories. Everything was a story. Everything was a lie that she told me. ... I wouldn't want her to come around myself or any friends."

Halifax police said she had been charged with three counts of breaching a recognisance. She was released on condition she stay away from any library and is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on May 24.

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