A Brazilian girl suspected of poisoning her husband’s household with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been discovered useless in her jail cell in what police assume was most certainly a suicide.
Deise Moura dos Anjos, 42, had been in pre-trial detention since January after prosecutors accused her of the homicide on Christmas Eve of three kinfolk and the tried homicide of one other three.
The victims had all eaten from the cake, which forensic specialists discovered had been baked with flour contaminated with the lethal poison.
Police had been additionally investigating if she could have killed her father-in-law, who died in September.
Forensic specialists who exhumed his physique discovered excessive ranges of arsenic, which led them to imagine that he, too, had been poisoned.
Moura dos Anjos denied any wrongdoing however native police chief Cléber dos Santos Lima advised reporters final month that he was “sure that she researched, purchased (…) and used the poison to kill her victims”.
He added that police had discovered proof exhibiting that she had purchased arsenic on 4 separate events.
Investigators examined many meals gadgets within the house of Moura dos Anjos’s mother-in-law, the place the six victims had been taken unwell, with a view to discover the supply of the poisoning.
Finally, they discovered sky-high ranges or arsenic within the flour – a few of which Moura dos Anjos’s mother-in-law, Zeli dos Anjos, had used to bake the Christmas cake.
As Zeli dos Anjos had herself eaten from the cake and was taken critically unwell, police shortly dominated her out as a suspect despite the fact that she had ready the cake.
Zeli dos Anjos survived however two of her sisters and one in every of her nieces died.
Her 10-year-old grandson and the husband of one in every of her sisters had been additionally amongst these poisoned however recovered.
