Brazilian police have detained a 42-year-old woman on suspicion of adding arsenic to a Christmas cake. According to investigators, this is how the woman planned to cause her mother-in-law’s death. Five family members fell ill after eating the baked goods. Three of them died.
The day before Christmas, a family in Torres was hospitalized with symptoms of food poisoning. It turns out that after eating Christmas cake, everyone felt sick.
According to the BBC, police chief Marcos Vinicius Veloso said in an interview with local media that some families had complained that the cake had a “pepper” taste. After that, symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea began to appear.
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According to local media, all the victims were women and ranged in age from 43 to 65. The woman who baked the cake is still hospitalized. The 10-year-old boy has already been discharged from the facility.
Cake poisoning incident in Brazil. poisoned the flour
The first suspect in the case was the woman who baked the cake. However, at a press conference on Monday, investigators presented a new theory. The culprit who poisoned the family was his 42-year-old wife, who wanted to “get rid of her mother-in-law.”
Police determined that the woman may have added poison to the flour used to make baked goods. A package of flour containing 65 grams of arsenic was also found. The alleged perpetrator had been at odds with her family for several years.
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According to Globo TV, the woman was arrested after investigators discovered that she had been searching for information about poisonous substances on the internet in recent weeks, including: About the effects of arsenic and its compounds. To this end, she visited hundreds of websites.
She is charged with triple murder and attempted murder. New topics also emerged. Investigators are demanding that the body of the suspect’s husband, who died of food poisoning in September, be exhumed. At the time, his death was considered natural.
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