As one who has kept true spiders (yes, black widows among them) tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, etc. for years... I can tell you right now this story is made up.
Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.
First of all, *no* spider "eats" people. This BS is based on the Hollywood fairy tale that spiders "drink blood".
A police spokesman said: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa.

“Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.
Anyone seen the movie Arachnophobia? This is taken dirrectly from that movie.
In addition, black widows do *not* spin "giant webs". That would be orb weavers.
“Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”
True spiders nor tarantulas eat dead flesh. This is also the fairy tale from someone's completely uneducated imagination. This is along the lines of "I can feed my Theraphosa blondi (that's a Goliath bird eater tarantula by the way) some raw chicken breast".

This entire story is a farse and I can just about gaurentee you all there is NO truth to this at all.

In addition, *if* the guy actually *did* let his "pets" roam free, the widows, well, spiders in general and tarantulas would eat EACHOTHER first before they'd eat the guy. Very few true spiders or tarantulas are communial and ALL are canabolistic. Even if they did choose to congrate in close proximity to each other, the average human body would be too close for their comfort and they would fight and kill each other for territory.

Also, unless this guy had a severe allergy to true spider venom, a bite from a black widow would *not* kill him. It would hurt like a son of a gun and possibaly even make him sick... if he did not receive medical treatment, but unless he went into anaphlatic (sp?) shock... he would not have died from a widow bite.