DF Police Probe Alleged ICU Murders at Hospital Anchieta as Phone Data Is Examined for Motive

Overview

• Operation Anúbis detained three ex–nursing technicians on suspicion of killing at least three ICU patients at Hospital Anchieta in Taguatinga.
• Police say the suspects used physicians’ logins to prescribe an improper drug and injected disinfectant in one case, triggering sudden deteriorations.
• Hospital security-camera footage prompted confessions from two suspects, and authorities are investigating the deaths as qualified homicide under judicial secrecy.
• Forensic teams are extracting phone messages and reviewing access logs to determine motive and to identify possible additional victims or affected facilities.
• The main suspect, Marcos Vinícius Silva Barbosa de Araújo, 24, later worked in a pediatric ICU; the victims were Miranilde Pereira da Silva, 75, João Clemente Pereira, 63, and Marcos Raymundo Fernandes Moreira, 33.