Police in Christmas cake 'poisoning' probe find mysterious white liquid in bottle Police investigating the deaths of three women from the same family who'd eaten a homemade Christmas cake alleged to have been poisoned have found a mysterious white liquid.
A bottle was found, a medicine, which should have had capsules inside it and there were no capsules - there was a white liquid and this white liquid will also be examined," the force statement reads.
The substance was discovered in a bottle in the home of Zeli Terezinha Silva dos Anjos, 61, who made the cake as per tradition for her family two days before Christmas.
Shortly after eating the cake, her sisters Maida, 57, and Neuza, 65, as well as Neuza's daughter Tatiana, 43, died and traces of the toxic metal arsenic were since found in their bodies.
Six people from the same family, including Zeli herself, fell ill after eating some of the cake.
