The walls of the luxury room in Bangkok's Grand Hyatt Erawan were closing in on the 56-year-old, who was under pressure, in huge debt and facing legal action over a business dispute.She had been lent hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in a project to build a hospital in Japan, but there'd been no progress and the investors wanted their money back.
Police said they believed one of the six had killed the others before taking their own life, but did not name a suspect.An investment gone bad The following day, when a maid went in to check the room after Ms Chong failed to check out, she found the three men and three women dead on the floor.One of the men had been apparently trying to reach the door but collapsed before he was able to.
"We hope that the victims' families soon overcome this great loss," spokesman Pham Thu Hang said in a statement.Autopsy reports from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn Hospital quickly confirmed what police had already suspected – all six bodies contained traces of cyanide. The case of "Am Cyanide" is still before the courts but police said they had found evidence she had poisoned 15 people over eight years in eight provinces, only one of whom survived.