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Yeah, poisoners are something else. You have to want to watch someone suffer, and not care if another person by chance eats or drinks the same thing.
Have to hold my urge to pass judgment just yet as the article notes “Zeli Terezinha Silva dos Anjos, 61, who prepared the cake with her sister, and a 10-year-old boy were hospitalized after falling ill. The third victim hospitalized has not been revealed.”3 Family Members Die After Eating Homemade Christmas Cake — Sparking New Investigation into Death of the Baker’s Husband
At least three members of a family have died, and three others have been hospitalized, after eating a traditional Christmas cake in Brazil this week. Police are now investigating the death of the baker’s husband only months earlier from food poisoning.people.com
Also, both poisoners and bombers tend to be repeat offenders.
I'm wondering if they have reason to suspect that another person adulterated her ingredients. The article says that she is not considered a suspect at this time.
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If that was the actual cake, the slices must have been tiny. I'm wondering just how much arsenic was present, to kill three people, and to make the cake taste "peppery" over the strong flavours of the spices, booze, dried fruit, marzipan and dark sugar generally present in many styles of fruit cake. It must have been a massive amount.Zeli’s 10-year-old great nephew is also hospitalised after eating a piece, and another unnamed family member — understood to be Tatiana’s husband — was released
Lead investigator Marcos Vinicius Veloso, from Torres Police Station, announced the case has been upgraded to homicide.
He said cops have taken 10 statements from other family members — but for now, there is “no malicious conduct”.
Detectives also raided six properties of people involved in the poisoning on Friday.
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Images provided by police and posted online showed a partially served cake of dried fruit with white marzipan icing and maraschino cherries on top
Brazil police probe deadly, arsenic-laced Christmas cake
Brazilian police are investigating three deaths and several hospitalizations resulting from a family eating an arsenic-laced Christmas cake, local media reported over the weekend.www.gmanetwork.com
*Now how many slices were served, they must have been small slices? I wonder if the slice shown was the same size for all served.
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It's easy enough with testing to determine when and for how long someone has been ingesting a poison like arsenic. I imagine that all the victims including the family member who passed in September will be tested this way. It used to be done by segmenting hair samples into lengths, don't know if that's still the process or if something more whizbang has replaced it. The presence of banding on the fingernails is also a classic sign of long term ingestion.With arsenic, a person can slowly build up tolerance. One can take small amounts over a long period of time. Then what would have been a lethal dose won't work.
"There is evidence that humans and other animals can build up tolerance to the toxic effects of arsenic. A society of “arsenic eaters” who deliberately consumed arsenic-laden soils in their religious practices developed a high tolerance for arsenic. Rasputin was reported to regularly ingest arsenic to build tolerance and to protect himself from poisoning."
The Facts on Arsenic | Dartmouth Toxic Metals
Her husband died from food poisoning? Did anybody try to figure out which food poisoned him? Even if death didn't seem suspicious, you'd think somebody would look into which food killed him.The family ate the cake in an apartment in Torres, where Maida lived with her husband. Police chief Mr Veloso said inquiries showed there had been a power cut at the address, and that Zeli found the fridge turned off when he arrived. He added: “When she went into the property there was an unbearable smell. Some of the things in the fridge, perishable foods like meat, were thrown away. But other items were re-used. What we’re trying to confirm is that some of those items, like currants and other crystallised fruit, could have been used in the cake a month later.”
Arsenic can develop in seafood, rice, mushrooms and poultry, though many other foods including some fruit juices can also contain it.
Police probing Christmas cake deaths after three 'poisoned' issue major update
Three women from the same family died and three more were rushed to hospital after eating a Christmas cake - police continue to investigate whether it was 'negligent or intentional'www.mirror.co.uk
Now I'm leaning towards them eating some tainted food, accidentally. If fruit juices can contain a buildup of arsenic, it's possible they used outdated fruit juice or crystallised fruit or currants way past the used date.The family ate the cake in an apartment in Torres, where Maida lived with her husband. Police chief Mr Veloso said inquiries showed there had been a power cut at the address, and that Zeli found the fridge turned off when he arrived. He added: “When she went into the property there was an unbearable smell. Some of the things in the fridge, perishable foods like meat, were thrown away. But other items were re-used. What we’re trying to confirm is that some of those items, like currants and other crystallised fruit, could have been used in the cake a month later.”
Arsenic can develop in seafood, rice, mushrooms and poultry, though many other foods including some fruit juices can also contain it.
Police probing Christmas cake deaths after three 'poisoned' issue major update
Three women from the same family died and three more were rushed to hospital after eating a Christmas cake - police continue to investigate whether it was 'negligent or intentional'
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