Poisoned family noticed ‘arsenic-laced Xmas cake’ tasted ‘strange’ but KEPT EATING as cops probe bizarre triple death
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A POISONED family who ate a Christmas cake laced with arsenic noticed that it tasted strange but kept eating it. Cops have opened a homicide probe into the bizarre case in Brazil which saw three women die after consuming the deadly desert. According to one of the investigators, the cake had an odd "spicy" and "peppery" flavour, but this didn't stop the Brazilian family from consuming the death desert.
![[Zeli Terezinha Silva dos Anjos baked the cake that killed her sisters & niece]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/6a022c5c-4bb4-4ef0-88f0-61a8698585dc.jpg?strip=all&w=395)
Zeli Terezinha Silva dos Anjos, 61, baked the cake which killed her two sisters Maida, 58, and Neuza, 65, along with her niece Tatiana, 43, on Monday. Whilst arsenic is a highly toxic substance without any smell or taste, the spiciness found is not common for sweet cakes.
![[The cake is feared to have been laced with arsenic]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/4f0e7972-da4d-4f3d-a871-b823cc5c9d8d.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But even the person who baked the cake didn't hold back from eating in - in a case that is baffling cops. Zeli, who baked the cake, fell ill after reportedly eating two slices of the Bolo de Natal traditional cake and remains in hospital in Torres, Brazil.
![[Zeli and her sisters who both died from the 'killer cake']](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/f1e08129-70cc-40b2-837d-14cae13cc025.jpg?strip=all&w=568)
Zeli's ten-year-old great nephew is also hospitalised after eating a piece, and another unnamed family member - understood to be Tatiana's husband - was released. The seventh family member who was at the party did not eat the cake. Brazilian police announced they have upgraded the case to homicide, but they have also said it is possible that the Christmas tragedy was just an accident.
![[Zeli's husband Paulo also died of food poisoning in September]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/zeli-terezinha-silva-dos-anjos-960227285.png?strip=all&w=568)
