A Brazilian man, his wife and his mistress have all been handed long sentences for killing at least three women and using their flesh to make meat pastries which they ate and sold. Negromonte was handed 71 years for double murder, as well as concealment and vilification of a corpse and robbery. Pires received 68 years and mistress Olivera 71 years and ten months. The trio of cannibals lured young women to their house by offering them work as a nanny, before murdering them and feasting in their dead bodies in a grisly 'purification' ritual.
Negromonte's wife Pires would then use the remaining human flesh to make traditional stuffed meat pastries which she and Oliveira would sell to unsuspecting customers on the streets. Negromonte, who would kill the women with a hammer or fish knife, reportedly butchered one young woman in front of her month-old daughter - then fed the toddler pieces of her mother the next day for lunch. After killing the women the group would dismember their bodies and remove their flesh before storing the meat in the freezer of their home and burying their bones in their backyard, the serial killer later explained.
But the monster justified his acts by claiming the women he killed would give birth to future 'thieves and lowlifes' and that the group were helping to rid the world of the ill-educated and their negative energies. The trio, who claimed to be part of a sect that preached 'the purification of the world and the reduction of its population', believed that by devouring the flesh of their victims they would purify themselves from the sin of having murdered them.
Yesterday a jury in Brazil's northeastern city of Recife found the three guilty of murdering two women, Gisele Helena da Silva, 31, and Alexandra Falcao da Silva, 20, inside their home in Garanhuns in February and March The court heard how Ms da Silva was lured to the house after Pires invited her to receive advice and hear the 'Word of God'. While she distracted her Negromonte allegedly stabbed her through her neck from behind.
Gruesome: Police found the remains of two women in the back yard of the suspects' house pictured. A month later, the group lured Ms Falcao to their house under the pretence of offering her a job as a babysitter. Again, as the women talked Negromonte murdered her by stabbing her through the back of her neck, according to prosecutors. The trio had already been condemned to between 20 and 23 years in prison for the murder of another woman, year-old Jessica Camila da Silva, in , inside the flat where they lived in Olinda, near Recife.
