Fernanda Silva Valoz da Cruz Pinto, a 27-year-old woman from Maceió, Brazil, was walking through the city center when she was approached by a stranger pretending to be a fortune teller.
After reading her palm and giving her a grim prediction about her death, the woman gave her a piece of chocolate. Fernanda, not suspecting the trap, ate it shortly afterward; within hours, she began to suffer vomiting, nosebleeds, and excessive salivation.
She was rushed to the Santa Casa de Misericordia, where she died in the early hours of the following day.
Chromatography confirmed that the chocolate was laced with sulfotep and terbufos, lethal pesticides banned for domestic use. Brazilian police are still searching for the suspect after this chilling crime that used superstition as a weapon.
