The Rio Grande do Sul Civil Police will deliver both inquiries that investigate the deaths of four members of a family by arsenic poisoning on December 23rd. The information was confirmed to CNN by the police chief, Fernando Sodré.
The crimes would have. On Thursday (13), the main suspicion of the crimes, Deise Moura dos Anjos, was found dead inside the cell at the Women’s State Penitentiary of Guaíba.
Divided into two investigations, one of the inquiries investigates the deaths of Neuza dos Anjos, Maida da Silva and Tatiana Denize, who ate a poisoned cake on Christmas Eve of 2024 in the city of Torres, in the coast of Rio Grande do Sul.
At the time, the police also considered the crime of homicide tempted against Zeli dos Anjos, and Matheus, a 10 -year -old who survived.
It was from this case that the gaucho police began to investigate. With the progress of the work, the exhumation of the suspicious father -in -law, Paulo Luiz dos Anjos, was requested in January 2025.
The man had died in September 2024 for supposed food poisoning. After exumed the body, the police concluded that there was arsenic presence in the victim, triggering a second inquiry.
Even with the death of the main suspicion of the case, the police will follow the work to “clarify all the elements and details that involve this fact.” In total, inquiries investigate four consummate homicides and two attempted murder. According to the delegate ,.
“Despite the pointing to her, the imputation of the practices of criminal conduct, the indictment does not occur due to the extinction of punishment for the death of the agent,” said the delegate Sodré.
The head of the Civil Police also reported that, even with Deise’s death, at the end of the investigations, the investigation will be sent to the prosecutor. If the MP agrees with the elements presented by the police, it should ask for the filing of the case, also for the “extinction of punishment for death of the agent”.
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Deise Moura dos Anjos is the main suspicion of poisoning. Zeli’s daughter -in -law, she is accused of poisoning the cake that killed three people and left two other hospitalized • Social media
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Zeli dos Anjos is Deise’s mother -in -law and responsible for preparing the poisoned cake. She was hospitalized in a stable state in the ICU of Senhora dos Navegantes Hospital and was discharged on January 10. Zeli was also the victim of an attempted poisoning by Deise, as well as two of her sisters. Police believe she was the main target • Social media
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Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjos, 65, was Zeli’s sister. She was one of the fatal victims of the family tragedy. For the investigators, she also had disagreements with Deise, due to the antipathy of suspicion with her daughter, Tatiana Denize • Social media
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Tatiana Denize appears as one of the examples that most symbolize the banality of the motivations of suspicion. Denize decided to marry a church, whose desire to hold the marriage ceremony was Deise. The fact that the cousin chooses the same place, and doing it before it, would never have been accepted • Social media
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Matheus, 10, was one of the victims of arsenic cake poisoning. Son of one of the victims, the child survived and was the first person released from the Navegantes Hospital. Police believe he was not one of Deise’s targets, but was poisoned for consuming the cake • Social media
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Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 59, was Zeli’s sister and consumed the cake at the afternoon cafe that intoxicated the family. For now, there is no information on what its disagreements would be with Deise • Social media
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Paulo Luiz dos Anjos was Deise’s father -in -law, and died in September 2024 for an alleged intestinal infection. Police exumed his body and found Arsenius, confirming that he was also poisoned, possibly through milk powder delivered by Deise • Social media
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Diego Silva dos Anjos is the son of Zeli dos Anjos and Paulo Luiz, who died in September 2024. He has been married to Deise for over 20 years. The Civil Police, in a press conference, has for now ruled out the possibility of their involvement in the poisoning.
Farewell ticket
Arrested since January 5, Deise Moura dos Anjos was found dead in the cell where she was at the Women’s State Penitentiary of Guaíba on Thursday (13).
“The servers provided first aid and called the Emergency Medical Service (Samu) which, upon arriving at the scene, found the death. Deise was alone in the cell, ”the penal police said in a statement.
In, the woman suspected of killing four people said “she was not a killer,” but a person with depression. According to Deisa, she was “misunderstood.”
Other tickets, which would have been written by her, were also found and sent for analysis by the General Institute of Expertise (IGP). Police confirmed that an inquiry was initiated to investigate the causes of the woman’s death.
