Arrests, Confession and Hired-Killing Claim Mark Brazil’s Latest Violent-Crime Cases

Overview

• In Rio’s Barros Filho, Joel Bento dos Santos was arrested in flagrante and confessed to striking Jaqueline da Silva before setting her bed ablaze with alcohol; police classify the case as feminicide and residential arson.
• In Figueirópolis, Tocantins, a 38-year-old suspect detained as the alleged shooter in the killing of nursing technician Daiany Batista told police he was hired for R$5,000, while investigators search for an alleged mastermind identified as the ex-husband of the victim’s girlfriend.
• A fugitive wanted for the July killings of Joice Daniela de Azevedo Vieira and a neighbor in Águas Lindas de Goiás was captured in Paraguay using false documents and is expected to be delivered to federal authorities and transferred to Goiás.
• In Avaré, São Paulo, police recognized legitimate self-defense after a 29-year-old woman fatally stabbed her ex-partner who allegedly broke into her home in violation of a protective order and assaulted her.
• In other cases under active inquiry, a bricklayer was arrested after a 68-year-old was stabbed inside his home in Várzea Grande, Bahia’s homicide unit is investigating two killings in Feira de Santana, and a 71-year-old was jailed in flagrante for a stabbing death at a chácara in Dourados.