Brazil Cannibal Empanadas: Brazilian Women Murdered, Eaten And Made Into Human Pastries

SAO PAULO -- Police have arrested three people for allegedly killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbors in their northeastern Brazil city.

The three suspects – a man, his wife and his mistress – belonged to a sect that preached "the purification of the world and the reduction of its population," police inspector Wesley Fernandes in the city of Garanhuns told the Globo TV network Friday.

The newspaper Estado de S.Paulo said the man, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, wrote a 50-page book titled "Revelations of a Schizophrenic" in which he says he hears voices and is obsessed with the killing of women.

Fernandes said the three were arrested Wednesday and had confessed to the crimes.

The three allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny. They were tracked down after one of the arrested women used a credit card belonging to a victim who disappeared last month.

Police found the remains of the two women in the backyard of the suspects' house, which enraged neighbors burned to the ground Thursday.

Fernandes identified the three as Negromonte; his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires; and his mistress, Bruna Oliveira da Silva.

The three allegedly had plans for killing another woman living in the nearby city of Lagoa do Ouro, Fernandes said.

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Comments

[l monroe]

12:43 AM on 06/01/2012

Soylant Green is people!!!!! Human Pastry UMMM Yes please, liver and kidney with shredded potatoes and carrots. Yeah, where is Pepe Bobo Cujo and Garfield.

[strangerallthetime]

06:11 PM on 05/31/2012

This man got his wife and mistress to work together? He's fortunate that they didn't make empanadas out of him.

[Izadora Thomaz]

01:10 PM on 05/08/2012

We don't have "empanadas" here, this food is hispanic food, brazilians are NOT hispanics, we got nothing to do with thispanic culture, our country was formed by portugueses and african slaves, unfortunately we had this cancer called slavery too, then came the italians, germans, japaneses, but, look what amazing; ANY hispanic! Do we got any hostility by any people around the world? No! But we don't like being mistaken for something we are not, too.

[Sjoerd W]

06:29 PM on 05/11/2012

Ok ok, so it's empadas... They were clearly mentioned as Brazilians, nto Hispanics. They just got the name of the food wrong. Besides, I've seen it spelled both ways in the numerous empada-stores in Rio.

[Donna Meness]

07:17 AM on 05/31/2012

When the Portuguese explorers first arrived in Brazil in April 1500, they found, to their astonishment, a wide coastline rich in resources, teeming with hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people living in a "paradise" of natural riches. At the time of European arrival, the territory of current day Brazil had as many as 2,000 nations and tribes. The indigenous peoples were traditionally mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture.

Intending to profit from sugar trade, the Portuguese decided to plant sugar cane in Brazil, and use indigenous slaves as the workforce, .. But the indigenous people were hard to capture and soon infected by diseases brought by the Europeans against which they had no natural immunity, began dying in great numbers.

This, coupled with the prospects of increased profits from the African slave trade (at the time almost monopolized by Portugal and supplying the labour needs of both Spanish and Portuguese settlers in the New World), encouraged Portuguese settlers and traders to start importing slaves from Africa.

Although in 1570 King Sebastian I ordered that the Brazilian Indians should not be used for slavery and ordered the release of those held in captivity it was only in 1755 that the slavery of Indians was finally abolished.

Recent excavations of such deposits in the middle and upper course of the Amazon have uncovered remains of some very large settlements, containing tens of thousands of homes, indicating a complex social and economical structure.

[Izadora Thomaz]

03:55 PM on 06/03/2012

Ah, and Amazon is just part of Brazil not the center of it. We live in another reality, another world, Amazon is pretty for tourists, I never been there and probably never will be. We don't live in the jungle, if you wanna know about Brazil try to look for the right things, not for fairy tales.

[Cassandrawept]

07:42 PM on 04/29/2012

Here's the tale of Sweeney Todd.

[beobnoxious]

02:51 AM on 04/28/2012

So did they taste like chicken or fish

[Cassandrawept]

07:43 PM on 04/29/2012

Pork. Human meat is called long-pig.

[Quinny]

01:37 PM on 04/24/2012

I don't "eat" women...I just eat around them.

Selah

[panchang810]

04:23 PM on 04/23/2012

So it was ok for the wife to live with the mistress in one roof, and worse to be a part of the murders of those women. She must be as insane as the husband.

Gosh and I love empanadas. :o(

[Riley74]

03:47 PM on 04/21/2012

"belonged to a sect that preached "the purification of the world and the reduction of its population"

So, 3 down, 7 billion to go? Not exactly the next Pol Pot, but I guess when you are hearing voices any excuse works...

[Out For Me]

07:32 PM on 04/20/2012

Some women liked to be ate, but somehow I think that only once isn't good enough.

[THATSRACIST]

10:00 PM on 04/20/2012

ALL WOMEN SHOULD BE EATEN.

[Matt1964]

04:15 PM on 04/23/2012

Vaginatarian

[PlayTOE]

07:28 PM on 04/20/2012

wants a wife and a mistress, and likes to kill women .. One would think that any wife or prospective mistress would want out of that sort of relationship, not become part of the crime.

[pixiepotpie]

09:25 PM on 04/20/2012

Humm... could they have also been Totally Insane? I wonder. . . . Lol. :)

[ldjwood]

03:45 PM on 04/20/2012

I thought i seen a sign in RIO that said "Brazilian women taste better" or something to that effect.

[Justjack1]

07:00 AM on 04/20/2012

a sect that preaches Reduction of the population, sounds like Bush and the right winged fanatics that are obsessed with keeping us in wars.

[cheezwizard]

02:15 PM on 04/20/2012

Yeah, overpopulation was really one of George W. Bush's pet issues. I mean, he talked about it all the time.

I can't wait until the US finally elects a Democratic president who will get out of all these wars and foreign interventions.

[Quinny]

01:35 PM on 04/24/2012

JFK tried...and we all know what happened to him.

Fanned and Faved.

All The Best,
Quinny

[FitnessGuru]

09:09 PM on 04/19/2012

Woah

[Aeryn Reid]

09:08 PM on 04/19/2012

"obsessed with the killing of women..." It seems axiomatic that whenever their is some deviant serial killer, they have an extraordinary hatred for women. Jeff Dahmer aside, what is it about these big bad men that they need to target women, and that it's just taken in stride by everyone like its expected? Why is the hatred of caregivers and mothers and daughters so endemic, how did it become universal? Is this just the baseline atavism of the male of the species?

[Alex Sweiven]

10:30 PM on 04/19/2012

Why are you so focused on the man when most of the cannibals, in this story, are women?

[Mira Swarts]

11:05 PM on 04/19/2012

People need to get over their 19th century way of thinking. Whenever a woman and a man are involved in a crime together, everyone automatically assumes that he “manipulated” her into doing it. She’s really a good person; she just met the wrong guy. Seeing as how women are week, can’t think for themselves, and are easily controlled, how can we hold them accountable for their actions when we can just blame the man? Women are just as accountable for the crimes the commit as men are. Saying otherwise is sexist BS.

[huffingtor]

05:12 AM on 04/22/2012

Lots of serial killers, not just Jeffrey Dahmer, were gay, and targeted exclusively men. Also, I'm not sure why you feel the need to associate the entire male gender with the actions of a few mentally deranged individuals. There have been female serial killers too, somehow I don't walk around with a warped view of women as some sort of male-hating monsters.

[Razpooten]

03:46 PM on 04/18/2012

Reminds me of when Jeffrey Dahmer met Lorena Bobbit; he said: You gonna eat that?

[Rosanne Smithe]

04:57 AM on 06/01/2012

Jeffrey was having dinner with his mother. Mom said: "Jeffrey, I don't like your friends". To which Jeffrey replied: "That's OK mom, just eat the vegetables."