Deise Moura was arrested in connection with the deaths of three family members at a Christmas party in Torres, Brazil. Police believe she poisoned the traditional Christmas cake with arsenic, leading to the deaths of Maida da Silva, Neuza Dos Anjos, and Tatiana Dos Santos. Zeli Dos Anjos, the mother of the deceased Neuza and the maker of the cake, is hospitalized in critical condition.
Brazil ian police have revealed that the woman arrested in an alleged Christmas cake poisoning had rowed with her family for years before three of them were killed by the arsenic-laced dessert.
They lost their lives within hours of eating the cake, with police chief Marcus Vinicius Veloso saying today that the flour found in Zeli's home had contained large amounts of arsenic. Police said that the 'disagreements' between the suspect and Zeli stretched back almost 20 years, but they refused to go into what exactly they were other than to say 'further elements would be released in due course'.
Veloso added: 'We have the evidence, very strong and robust evidence that it was her behind this crime, and we have the reasons, but we cannot go into details yet.' She added that 89 samples were collected from the home of the woman who made the cake and only sample, of flour, showed high arsenic concentrations.
Tatiana's 10-year-old son Matheus, Zeli's great nephew, was treated in hospital and only released on Friday, while Maida's husband Jefferson was also treated but Neuza's husband Joao did not eat any cake and was unaffected. Last week police said they are 'not aware of any disputes within the family' but are keeping an open mind while waiting for results from lab tests which are due back any day and provisional reports revealed arsenic in the blood of the victims.
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