“Poisoned by a Stranger: The Tragic Death of Fernanda After Accepting a Chocolate from an Elderly Fortune Teller”
A 27-year-old Brazilian woman named Fernanda Silva Valoz da Cruz Pinto was walking through the busy city center of Maceió, Alagoas, when an elderly woman suddenly approached her and offered to read her palm for free. The fortune teller looked at her hand and gravely warned her that she only had “a few days to live.” Before they parted ways, the old woman handed
Fernanda a small, packaged chocolate, insisting it was a harmless gift.Fernanda, who was feeling hungry at the time, thought the chocolate looked completely ordinary and harmless. She decided to eat it on the spot.Just a few hours later, she began texting her family in growing panic. “My heart is racing. I’ve thrown up several times.
There’s this horrible bitter taste in my mouth. My vision is getting blurry, and I’m feeling so incredibly weak,” she wrote. In her final message, she explained what had happened: “Because I accepted a chocolate in the city centre. I ate it. After that, I felt sick. At the time, it didn’t even cross my mind. She was just an old lady.”Fernanda died the following morning
.Two months later, toxicology reports confirmed the devastating truth: she had been poisoned with lethal concentrations of two highly toxic agricultural pesticides — sulfotep and terbufos. The fortune teller had not predicted her death. She had deliberately caused it.By the time police launched a full homicide investigation, the CCTV footage from the area had already been automatically deleted. Despite efforts to identify the killer, no suspect was ever found. The case remains unsolved and effectively cold to this day.Fernanda left behind a young 9-year-old daughter with special needs, who must now grow up without her mother.
