A Brazilian woman suspected of poisoning her husband’s family with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in what police think was most likely a suicide.
Deise Moura dos Anjos, 42, had been in pre-trial detention since January after prosecutors accused her of the murder on Christmas Eve of three relatives and the attempted murder of another three.
The victims had all eaten from the cake, which forensic experts found had been baked with flour contaminated with the deadly poison.
Police were also investigating if she may have killed her father-in-law, who died in September.
Forensic experts who exhumed his body found high levels of arsenic, which led them…