Before three people in Brazil died eating a homemade Christmas cake believed to have been laced with arsenic, other family members noticed an off-putting flavor.

A New Year's Day meal turned into a harrowing tragedy in Brazil after rat poison was discovered in the food, leading to the deaths of three family members: one-year-old Igno Davi da Silva, his 18-year-old uncle Manoel,

The woman who baked the cake, along with a 10-year-old child who also ate the cake, remain in the hospital and are receiving treatment for poisoning.