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Netflix’s A Widow’s Game Tops Charts for Spain’s ‘Black Widow’ Crime

María Jesús Moreno remains in Fontcalent Prison serving a 22-year sentence after her 2020 conviction for orchestrating her husband’s murder.

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Overview

  • A Widow’s Game climbed to No. 1 on Netflix within days of its May 30 release, driven by its true-crime roots.
  • The film dramatizes how Moreno enlisted her lover, Salvador Rodrigo, to fatally stab her husband, Antonio Navarro, in a Valencia garage on August 16, 2017.
  • Homicide detective Eva led the probe that unearthed incriminating phone records and text messages linking Moreno to the plot.
  • In October 2020 a jury convicted Moreno of murder with kinship aggravation, sentencing her to 22 years and ordering €250,000 in damages, while Rodrigo received 17 years.
  • In July 2023 Moreno gave birth to a child conceived with another inmate and now lives with her baby in the mother-child unit at Alicante’s Fontcalent Prison.