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.
António Luís Costa is a Portuguese retired GNR soldier and serial killer from Santa Comba Dão. He was convicted in 2007 for the murders of three young women between May 2005 and May 2006. He is currently held in the prison of Évora. The case received extensive media attention in Portugal. It was front page in some newspapers.
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 1996 in Brazil.
Events in the year 1997 in Brazil.
Gleydson Cardoso de Carvalho was a Brazilian radio talk show host and journalist for Radio Liberdade FM. He was known for his attacks on local government corruption. Carvalho was killed after being shot in the head and chest multiple times while on air by unidentified gunmen.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Vitória Gabrielly Case refers to the murder of Vitória Gabrielly Guimarães Vaz, who disappeared in 2018, when she was 12 years old, after leaving home to go rollerblading in Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil.
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.
