TOTTORI (Kyodo) A 35-year-old woman with links to six men whose suspicious deaths were recently uncovered in Tottori Prefecture and her 46-year-old male roommate were served fresh warrants and indicted Friday on separate counts of fraud.
The six deceased had been acquainted with or had financial troubles with the woman, who worked in a bar in the city of Tottori, and police are investigating their deaths with a view to building murder cases. Sleeping drugs were detected in autopsies of three of the six.
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