Suspect in Christmas cake poisoning found dead in prison

A Brazilian woman, suspected of poisoning her husband’s family with a Christmas cake with arsenic, was found dead in her prison cell in what police believe she is most likely suicide.

Daise Mura Dos Angeos, 42, has been pre-trial in January after prosecutors accused her of killing three relatives of Christmas Eve and attempting to kill three more.

The victims were eaten by the cake, which found that forensic experts had been baked with flour contaminated with the deadly poison.

Police were also investigating whether she could have killed her mother -in -law, who died in September.

Forensic experts who exhumed his body found high levels of Arsen, which made them believe that he was also poisoned.

Mura Dos Angeos denied any misconduct, but the local police chief, Cleber Dos Santos Lima, told reporters last month that she was “sure she studied, bought (…) and used the poison to kill her victims.”

He added that the police had found evidence showing that she had bought arsenic in four separate cases.

Investigators tested many food items at Moura Dos Anjos’s mother -in -law’s home, where the six victims were decomposed to find the source of poisoning.

In the end, they found levels in the sky or arsenic in the flour-some of which Moura Dos Anjos’s mother, Zeli Dos Angeos, had used to baking the Christmas cake.

While Zelly Dos Angeos Sala ate the cake and was seriously ill, police quickly excludes it as a suspect, even though it has prepared the cake.

Zelly Dos Angeos survived, but two of her sisters and one of her nephews were killed.

Her 10-year-old grandson and the husband of one of her sisters were also among the poisoned, but they were recovering.