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(10 Feb 1997) German/Nat A 66-year-old woman - dubbed the "Black Widow" - is facing a murder charge in the Austrian town of Krems, amid claims that she is responsible for a series of deaths. Police in Vienna claim Elfriede Blauensteiner confessed to five murders but later withdrew the admission. Investigating officers believe she poisoned her alleged victims because she needed the money for gambling. Sixty-six-year-old Blauensteiner looks more like a grandmother than a potential serial killer. But detectives in Vienna accuse her of conducting a murder spree that lasted years. Police say she admitted committing several murders - but later retracted the confession, claiming that after such intense questioning she would have confessed to anything. The police are far from convinced. SOUNDBITE: (German) "From our first investigation we knew there were three murders and then the lawyer said that Frau Blauensteiner had confessed to him. In that confession, she said she'd murdered four people. When we added it all together we had to subtract one murder that was the same, so the total is six murders. There may be a seventh but we don't know if that was murder or suicide." SUPER CAPTION: Major Franz Polzer, Lower Austrian Police Police claim the 66-year-old murdered for money and that she killed her victims by giving them fatal medicine overdoses. But Blauensteiner claims she was abused by at least one of her victims. And her neighbours paint a different picture of "The Black Widow". SOUNDBITE: (German) "She helped me financially, not only once but many times because she knew about my problems. At Christmas she gave each kid about one thousand schillings. (approximately 100 U-S dollars). She put 10-thousand (approximately 1-thousand U-S dollars) on the table for me for a freezer. One month before she had given me 15- thousand schillings, (approximately 1,500 U-S dollars) and I can't imagine that this woman. She told me about her men and always said positive things about how she was self-sacrificing." SUPER CAPTION: Elisabeth Mott, Neighbour Blauensteiner is thought to have met some of the dead men through the personal columns of local newspapers. One of her alleged victims is thought to be Alois Pichler, believed to have been poisoned with fatal doses of medication. The police are investigating several other deaths in relation to Blauensteiner. And it's claimed the pensioner had the help of an accomplice. The "Black Widow's" lawyer, 39-year-old Harold Schmidt is also facing charges. He is accused of falsifying the will of one of the alleged victims. It's claimed that Schmidt had agreed to share the proceeds with the widow. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...