TOKYO: Japanese police on Thursday raided the home of a 67-year-old multi-millionaire arrested on suspicion of poisoning her latest husband after six other partners also died, and reportedly recovered cyanide from her trash.

Television footage showed about a dozen investigators, wearing masks and gloves, marching into the house of Chisako Kakehi in Kyoto a day after her arrest in Japan's latest apparent "black widow" case.

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