Family Challenges Affair Claim in Praia Grande Realtor Killing

Overview

• Electrician Cassius Maximiliano Brancatti, 48, confessed to killing real estate agent Wanderley Guanais Mineiro, 63, and remains in custody after being arrested at home once the car used in the crime was identified.
• The victim was found in a construction-site bathroom in the Tupi neighborhood with a cervical wound after working at a sales post the previous day.
• Security footage shows a man entering the property and leaving roughly 20 to 23 minutes later carrying the victim’s belongings.
• Investigators recovered two of the victim’s phones from the suspect and requested a court order to access telematic data for analysis.
• The case was initially recorded as robbery-homicide, and police say it may be reclassified as qualified intentional homicide as they assess motive, including the suspect’s unverified claim that the victim threatened to expose an extramarital relationship, which the family disputes.