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CRIME HUNTER: Black widow liked threesomes and murder

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The clock was ticking.

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A thin sliver of time forced Denise Williams and Brian Winchester to commit the sinister deed the two love rats had been conspiring on for years.

Driving the death plot was a scorching sexual affair and a pile of insurance cash.

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Williams’ first-degree murder trial in Tallahassee has elements that would leave a Hollywood scriptwriter salivating over.

Oh, and toss in a dollop of porn for good measure.

Brian Winchester said he and Denise Williams plotted to kill her husband for love, sex and insurance money. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brian Winchester said he and Denise Williams plotted to kill her husband for love, sex and insurance money. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Williams, 48, is on trial for the murder of her husband, Mike Williams.

The avid hunter was taken off the board nearly 20 years ago when he failed to return from a duck hunting expedition on a lake in the Florida Panhandle with his childhood friend Winchester.

At the time of his death, Mike was moaning he and his wife were no longer having sex.

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He mused about divorcing Denise, suspecting she was having an affair.

What he didn’t know was that Denise was having sex with his hunting buddy Winchester.

A divorce would be very bad indeed.

Cheryl Williams sobs on hearing the jury verdict. She fought a long, lonely battle to get cops to investigate. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cheryl Williams sobs on hearing the jury verdict. She fought a long, lonely battle to get cops to investigate. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For starters, Denise and Winchester could kiss a $1.75 million insurance policy goodbye if the couple split. And that insurance policy was about to lapse.

It was a hodgepodge of affairs, threesomes, and naughty snapshots from a spring break long ago.

But before death came calling, Mike, Denise, Winchester and his ex-wife, Kathy Thomas, were thick as thieves.

The quartet had been close friends since they all attended North Florida Christian School together.

As adults, they went on double dates. Then, things got ramped up in the hormone-charged hijinks department.

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The party is over. Denise Williams now faces life in prison. TALLAHASSEE POLICE
The party is over. Denise Williams now faces life in prison. TALLAHASSEE POLICE

Raunchy photos were entered into evidence. Among the snaps were Denise and Kathy Thomas sharing a passionate kiss.

Winchester dryly told the court: “They are photographs of Denise with my first wife Kathy of a sexual nature.”

Thomas told detectives that even before Mike Williams mysteriously vanished, there was sexual action via threesomes with Denise and her husband.

And that — more than the money — was the cherry on top, Winchester testified.

“We wanted to be together, but the money was just icing on the cake,” he said.

It was Winchester who set up the insurance policies and it was him who invited buddy Mike on the duck hunting trip.

Winchester had planned to drown his friend by pushing him out of the boat.

But he said he panicked as Williams struggled in the frigid water to get out of his jacket and duck waders.

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Denise Williams on trial for her life in Florida. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denise Williams on trial for her life in Florida. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“He started to yell and I didn’t know how to get out of that situation. I had my gun in the boat, and so I loaded my gun and I just made one or two circles around and I ended up circling closer towards him and he was in the water, and as I passed by, I shot him,” Winchester said.

On Dec. 16, 2000, two men went into the woods. One came back.

After Mike Williams vanished on that fateful fishing trip, Winchester kicked his wife to the curb and married Denise.

But for years, the case file gathered dust despite the dead man’s mom begging cops and even the governor of Florida for help. Denise was not pleased.

“Denise called me. She was livid,” Cheryl Williams said. “She said, ‘I don’t ever want to hear Mike’s name again. I don’t ever want to see Mike’s name in the paper again…I have to get on with my life.”

In 2017, Mike Williams buried body was finally found. Winchester turned himself in and told investigators everything.

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It was the same year that Winchester and Denise called it quits over his paranoia that she would rat him out.

So he kidnapped her making her promise not to tell. She told cops about the kidnapping.

But the DA had a deal: if Winchester squealed he would get immunity in Mike’s murder.

Denise was arrested that May for murder, fraud and conspiracy.

She was convicted Friday after a jury deliberated for eight hours. Denise Williams will never see the light of day.

The daughter she had with Mike was 18 months when he was erased from her life.

She’s 18 now.

Sebastien Metivier vanished Nov. 1, 1984, from Montreal.
Sebastien Metivier vanished Nov. 1, 1984, from Montreal.

MISSING

NAME: Sebastien Metivier

AGE: 8

411: Sebastien Metivier disappeared in Montreal on Nov. 1, 1984. The young boy was in front of the Tres-Saint-Nom-de-Jesus church on the east side of the city. He was heading to an arts and crafts course.
CONTACT: Crime Stoppers, the RCMP or your local police department.

Former teachers aide Anthony Kendall Dewater, 60, is wanted for a slew of sex crimes against children. FBI
Former teachers aide Anthony Kendall Dewater, 60, is wanted for a slew of sex crimes against children. FBI

MOST WANTED

NAME: Anthony Kendall Dewater

AGE: 60

411: Dewater is wanted by the FBI for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution — failure to appear (sexual abuse in the first degree). The former teacher’s aide speaks Spanish and has ties to British Columbia. On Feb. 21, 1992, Dewater was charged with nine counts of sexual abuse in the first degree for allegedly fondling multiple students. He was found guilty on seven of those counts.

CONTACT: Crime Stoppers, the RCMP or your local police department.

bhunter@postmedia.com

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