Goiânia is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region and the 10th-largest in the country. Its metropolitan area has a population of 2,654,860, making it the 12th-largest in Brazil. With an area of approximately 739 square kilometres, it has a continuous geography with few hills and lowlands, with flat lands in most of its territory, especially the Meia Ponte River, in addition to Botafogo and Capim Puba streams.
Henrique de Campos Meirelles is a Brazilian manager and former Minister of Finance and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011. He chairs J&F's board of directors, company that owns Banco Original, JBS and Vigor, among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
João Hélio Fernandes Vieites was a six-year-old Brazilian boy who was murdered on February 7, 2007 by being dragged from a car for 7 km after an armed carjacking by a group of young males in Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. The callous and brutal manner in which João Hélio was murdered shocked the Brazilian public and received substantial coverage in Rio's media and throughout Brazil. The murder sparked a number of public protests demanding concrete solutions to the extreme violence plaguing the city, amendments to the constitution and penal code to increase the punishment for brutal crimes, and greater accountability placed upon adolescents who commit murder.
Events from the year 2002 in Brazil
Events from the year 2008 in Brazil.
Events from the year 2012 in Brazil.
Gomes da Rocha is a Portuguese surname. Notable persons with that name include:
Events in the year 1997 in Brazil.
Iris Rezende Machado was a Brazilian politician who was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
In the morning of October 20, 2017, an unnamed 14-year-old student of the private school Goyases, in Goiânia, Brazil opened fire against his classmates with a .40-caliber Taurus PT100 pistol, leaving two dead, and four injured. He tried to commit suicide but was convinced not to by a school teacher, being arrested minutes after the incident.
Events in the year 2018 in Brazil.
Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito is a Brazilian former miner, informal mechanic, serial killer and sex offender condemned by the courts as responsible for several homicides against children in the state of Maranhão, maintaining the abuse of the corpse and emasculation of the victims in common. Scientific evidence proved him as the perpetrator of the crimes when experts found several bodies in his residence, as well as limbs and fragments of children who had disappeared. Evidence points him as the real person responsible for the series of crimes of the same modus operandi that occurred in the municipality of Altamira, in Pará, since the accused lived in the region for more than 10 years. Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in the country.
Roneys Fon Firmino Gomes, known as the Tower Maniac, is a Brazilian serial killer who, after killing his victims, left their bodies underneath high-voltage electrical towers.
Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira, known as The Monster of Bragança, was a Brazilian rapist and serial killer who committed at least eight rapes and five murders in the Bragança region in two periods: between 1953 and 1963, and between 1974 and 1975, when he was arrested. This case shocked the 1970s society in Bragança Paulista.
Douglas Baptista, known as The São Vicente Maniac, is a Brazilian serial killer who drowned at least eight children in the Baixada Santista metropolitan area from 1992 to 2003. Arrested and convicted for several of the crimes, he is currently serving a lengthy sentence.
Benedito Moreira de Carvalho, known as The Monster of Guaianases, was a Brazilian serial killer and child rapist who killed eleven girls in Greater São Paulo from 1937 to 1952. Ruled unfit to stand trial, he was imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital until his death in 1976.
Ronnie Lessa, rarely and erroneously referred to as Rony or Roni Lessa, is a former military police officer from Rio de Janeiro, retired in 2010, mainly known for being one of the main suspects involved in the assassination of councilwoman Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes, which occurred in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 2018. He is also known for his connection with the militia in the state.
Ibraim and Pedro Henrique de Oliveira, collectively known as The Necrophile Brothers, were Brazilian brothers and serial killers who killed at least eight people around Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro from 1991 to 1995, having sex with the bodies of their female victims.
José Tiago Correia Soroka is a Brazilian serial killer and thief sentenced to 104 years in prison for the murder of three gay men, one in Santa Catarina and two in Paraná. He has been imprisoned since 2021.
