Suspect in Christmas cake poisoning found dead in jail cell

The Brazilian woman had been accused of murdering three members of her husband's family on Christmas Eve.

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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 to believe that he, too, had been poisoned.

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