THE woman who baked a deadly Christmas cake that cost the lives of three people had previously laced powdered milk with arsenic to poison her father-in-law, it has been alleged. The bombshell twist comes as investigators confirmed that Paulo Luiz Dos Anjos had indeed ingested arsenic after an exhumation of his body was ordered.
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Cops requested a post-mortem after 39-year-old Deise Moura was accused of baking the arsenic-laced dessert which killed three members of her family in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on December 23. She was arrested on suspicion of triple murder and attempted murder.
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And it has now been revealed her father-in-law- Paulo had drunk coffee with arsenic-laced powdered milk before his death. Deise's mother-in-law Zeli Dos Anjos survived and was admitted to the ICU from where she was discharged on Friday. She is the only one of the three sisters to have survived what appears to be a poisoning after cops found arsenic in the blood of those who ate the cake.
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Her niece Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos, 43, and sister Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 58, passed away after eating the dessert when they suffered cardiac arrest. In the wake of the Christmas tragedy, it emerged Zeli's husband had died from suspected food poisoning back in September.
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Following revelations about Deise's deadly cake, cops decided to investigate the man's death - who had reportedly died after eating mashed bananas grown in the family’s garden. His body was exhumed last week and a post-mortem confirmed he had also ingested arsenic, Fantástico reports.
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