THE case of a poisoned cake in Torres in Rio Grande do Sul, which revealed crimes committed by Deise Moura dos Anjos through arsenic gained prominence in the media in Brazil and around the world.
Deise would have a history of family disagreements and her mother-in-law Zeli dos Anjos would be her main target.
Zeli prepared the cake on Christmas Eve. According to the Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul, the poison (arsenic) was mixed by Deise in the flour used by her mother-in-law in the preparation.
Seven people participated in the celebration, but not all of them ate the cake.
Zeli’s sisters, Neuza and Maida, died in the early hours of December 24 after eating the cake with arsenic. Tatiana, niece, died after being hospitalized on the 25th.
The great-nephew, Matheus, and mother-in-law, Zeli, were hospitalized and were later discharged.
The police also found that before the cake, Deise killed her father-in-law, Paulo Luiz dos Anjos, also with arsenic, but added to powdered milk.
Case in Argentina
The history of crimes involving poison is also famous in other countries. In Argentina, a case that occurred in 1979 points to a serial killer who poisoned her friends through cyanide put in tea .
Mercedes Bolla Aponte from Murano, known as “Yiya”, remained in the records of Argentine criminal history as the “poisoner of Monserrat”, Argentina’s first serial killer.
The case came to light in 1979, when Carmen Zulema Del Giorgio’s daughters requested an autopsy of their mother’s body, who died in March of that year.
According to them, the building’s doorman said he saw Murano enter the woman’s apartment and come out with a piece of paper and a bottle. The paper, according to the investigation, was a promissory note that proved that Del Giorgio had given him money.
The autopsy determined that there were traces of cyanide in the woman’s blood.
While looking for more witnesses in this case, investigators discovered that Murano was carrying out scams. She received money from friends and promised to multiply it in the financial market.
With this information, two other victims were identified: Nilda Gamba and Lelia Formisano de Ayala, two women to whom Murano owed money and who died a month before Del Giorgio.
The bodies were exhumed for autopsies and the results corroborated the investigators’ suspicion: both women had cyanide in their bodies.
However, despite all the evidence presented in the investigation, in the first judicial instance Murano was acquitted and released.
Only in June 1985 was the decision reviewed by the Criminal Chamber, following a request for an appeal from the prosecutor and the lawyer representing one of the victims.
The decision was to sentence the “Monserrat poisoner” to life in prison.
With the reconstruction of the crimes, which was reflected in the decision of the Criminal Chamber in 1985, a modus operandi was revealed: Yiya Murano took advantage of the bond of trust with the victims and used cyanide – probably in tea – to kill the women.
This content was originally published in Poisoned cake: in addition to Brazil, Argentina has a famous case of murderous tea on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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