Overview

• Police say 65-year-old Neil Corrêa da Silva’s death after an April 26 feijoada was a premeditated homicide arranged for R$4,000.
• Investigators allege the victim’s daughter, Michelle Paiva da Silva, hired Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, paying an effective R$1,400 after a loan deduction.
• Three women are in custody: Michelle was arrested this week, Ana Paula has been in preventive detention since July 9, and her twin Roberta Cristina Veloso has been held on a temporary warrant since August.
• Ana Paula is presented by police as a suspected serial poisoner tied to three other homicide cases in São Paulo.
• The death certificate lists medical causes, prompting exhumation and toxicology, and investigators say Ana Paula previously tried to fabricate a poisoned cake to misdirect another probe.