Brazilian Cannibals On Trial - Man, Wife & Mistress Killed Women, Made Pies With Their Flesh

A man, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires, and their live-in mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva, have gone on trial in Brazil yesterday for allegedly killing two women, cutting them up and baking their flesh into pies they ate and sold to neighbors. A 5-year-old girl who lived with them also ate the pastries.

The thresome, who were arrested back in 2012, would allegedly lure women to their home to interview for a job as a nanny, and then murder them, the Daily Beast reports:

According to the police, the trio lured their victims to a small house on the edge of town on the promise of work and then beat them to death in a gruesome "purification" ritual that included hacking up the bodies, draining their blood, and eating body parts before burying the remains.

Negromonte has confessed to the killings, though he denied committing murder (he called them purifications) or torturing his victims. His companions denied taking part in the killings, though Negromonte claimed they were both involved in luring the victims to the house.

Later, in custody, Isabel Cristina told police inspector Wesley Fernandes she had baked pastries stuffed with bits of the victims’ flesh and peddled them to the unknowing proprietors of local bars and eateries.

Police reportedly found the remains of two women in the backyard. When police arrested the three they claimed to belong to a group that believed in "the purification of the world and the reduction of its population."

They also found a 50-page book written by Negromonte, called Revelations of a Schizophrenic, in which he discusses killing women and talks of hearing voices. The book apparently also includes passages about black magic, cannibalism, and torture.


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