By Chuck Hustmyre
March 28, 2007
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (Crime Library) — She's called the Black Widow, and like the deadly arachnid, she is alleged to have used her mates and then killed them.
She was born Sandra Camille Powers, but she has gone by many names, most taken from now-dead husbands.
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| Sandra Camille Powers |
A suspect in at least three homicides — two spouses and what may have been a romantic rival — Powers was finally captured this month, but not for murder.
Police in North Carolina nabbed the slippery 62-year-old for forgery and theft after she allegedly spent months scamming an elderly Brunswick County woman.
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In September, Sue Moseley, 77, took Powers, who was then using the name Camille Bridewell, into her home. Powers had been working for Moseley's sister as a live-in caregiver until the two women had a falling out. She then went to work in the same capacity for Moseley.
Powers, who was posing as an overseas Christian missionary, claimed she was leaving in six weeks for an extended mission in Africa. Six months later she was still living in Moseley's million-dollar gated golf community home. While living with Moseley, Powers rifled through her tax records, took out a credit card in Moseley's name, isolated her from her family, interfered with her prescription medication schedule, tried to change Moseley's address with the Social Security Administration, and attempted to change the beneficiary on her life insurance policy.
Powers also convinced Moseley to ask a couple of real estate agents to show them several multimillion dollar Brunswick homes. Powers claimed she wanted to buy a house to use as a training center for an organic farming course she planned to teach people from Third World countries.
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| Sandra Powers |
After Powers seemed to settle on a $2.7 million waterfront home, the realtors had to ask the two women, who appeared inseparable, who was actually going to buy the house.
Powers said she intended to purchase the house with cash.
Alarm bells started to ring in the minds of the two veteran real estate agents, so they did what nearly everyone does nowadays when they want to find out something on someone — they Googled her.
What they found shocked them.
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