A San Dimas woman who found dead in county jail four days after she was sentenced for fatally stabbing her wife with a Japanese sword killed herself, authorities confirmed Monday, Nov. 17.

A deputy doing checks discovered 45-year-old Weichien Huang in her cell at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood at 10:56 a.m. on Nov. 7, sheriff’s Lt. Steve De Jong said.

She died of ligature hanging and her death has been ruled as a suicide, according to the medical examiner’s office said.

Huang wasn’t under a suicide watch, De Jong said. He said she left a note but declined to discuss the contents.

Weichien Huang had been sentenced on Nov. 3 to 37 years to life in prison for killing her wife, 47-year-old Chen Chen Fei, and trying to kill her mother-in-law, 73-year-old Hsi Wei H

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