SYRACUSE - A judge denied bail Friday for a 40-year-old woman who is accused of poisoning her second husband with antifreeze and under investigation for the death of her first husband.

Meanwhile, Stacey Castor's lawyer claimed that Castor's 20-year-old daughter left a suicide note admitting responsibility for the deaths of the two men.

“It is a suicide note written by the daughter and it accepts responsibility for the two homicides,” said defense attorney Charles Keller.

Castor, of Liverpool, was arrested last week and charged with poisoning David Castor, 48, in August 2005.

She is also a suspect in the death of her first husband, 38-year-old Michael Wallace of Weedsport. Wallace's death in January 2000 was originally attributed to natural causes. But his body was exhumed after Castor died and the death was recently ruled a homicide due to ingesting ethylene glycol, a chemical in antifreeze.

Castor, a legal aid secretary, is also being investigated for the attempted murder of her daughter, Ashley Wallace, said Assistant District Attorney Gary Dawson.

Sheriff's detectives arrested Castor after she called the local 911 Center and told authorities that Ashley Wallace had tried to commit suicide. Wallace was hospitalized but recovered and was released after a few days.

Investigators have not released any details about the incident, but said it was not a suicide attempt.

In court, Dawson acknowledged there was a note that Ashley Wallace “purportedly tried to kill herself.” Afterward, Dawson would not comment on the note's contents. Ashley Wallace would have been 13 or 14 at the time of her father's death, Keller said.

Dawson asked Onondaga County Judge Joseph Fahey to hold Castor without bail - or at least set bail at $1 million - calling her both a danger to the

community and a high risk to flee.

Dawson said investigators found Castor's fingerprints on a drinking glass containing traces of antifreeze that was found next to the body of David Castor, whose fingerprints were not on the glass.

Keller wanted bail set at $50,000.

He said Castor had no criminal history, had lived in the area her entire life and still had strong family ties there. The defense attorney also questioned the strength of the prosecution's case, noting that it took authorities two years to charge Castor. Keller also questioned why her case still had not been presented to a grand jury.

“It's not unusual to find fingerprints on a glass in one's own home,” Keller said.

In a 9-page statement to police, Castor said David Castor had been guzzling whiskey and vomiting for three days before he was found dead in their Liverpool home. She said her husband had been acting strangely for more than a month and locked himself in a bedroom for the last four days of his life.

During his final days, David Castor expressed fear that he would die from high blood pressure, predicted he would not live to age 65, and said he was worried that they would lose their house and all of their assets if he was confined for a long time in a hospital, she said in the statement.